HB5575 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB5575

Introduced 2/15/2012, by Rep. Roger L. Eddy

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

105 ILCS 5/14-2

Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. With respect to any State statute or administrative rule that defines a general education classroom to be composed of a certain percentage of students with individualized education programs (IEPs), provides that students with individualized education programs shall exclude students for whom instruction in the general education classroom does not require modification to the content of the general education curriculum (instead of excluding students receiving only speech services outside of the general education classroom, provided that the instruction the students receive in the general education classroom does not require modification). Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning education.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section 14-2 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/14-2)

Sec. 14-2. Definition of general education classroom for special education students receiving services in the general education classroom.

(a) With respect to any State statute or administrative rule that defines a general education classroom to be composed of a certain percentage of students with individualized education programs (IEPs), students with individualized education programs shall exclude students for whom instruction receiving only speech services outside of the general education classroom, provided that the instruction the students receive in the general education classroom does not require modification to the content of the general education curriculum.

(b) In every instance, a school district must ensure that composition of the general education classroom does not interfere with the provision of a free and appropriate public education to any student.

(Source: P.A. 97-284, eff. 8-9-11.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.