House Sponsors: CLAYTON-WOOD-GASH, MITCHELL, NOLAND, MYERS, HOEFT AND COWLISHAW. Senate Sponsors: BUTLER-LINK Short description: SCH CD-NO PASS-NO PLAY Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the School Code. Requires school boards to establish, implement, and enforce a policy under which a student in any of grades 9 through 12 who fails to maintain a minimum grade point average or a minimum grade in each course in which the student is enrolled or both is suspended from further participation in school-sponsored or school-supported athletic or extracurricular activities for a specified period of time or until a specified minimum grade point average or grade or both are earned by the student. Requires school boards to file a copy of the policy with the State Board of Education and to annually report the number and duration of suspensions imposed and modifications made to the policy since the filing of its last report. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Deletes reference to: 105 ILCS 5/10-20.30 new 105 ILCS 5/34-18.17 new Adds reference to: 105 ILCS 5/10-22.40 from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.40 Changes the title and deletes everything after the enacting clause. Adds provisions amending the School Code. Prohibits the school board of any school district from paying dues to any association that has as one of its purposes providing for athletic or other competition among schools and students unless that association, by July 1, 1998, adopts, implements, and enforces minimum academic standards that a student must meet as a condition of the student's eligibility to participate in that competition. Specifies certain of the required minimum standards. FISCAL NOTE, H-AM 1 (State Board of Education) No fiscal impact on SBE or local school districts. STATE MANDATES FISCAL NOTE, H-AM 1 (SBE) No change from SBE fiscal note. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Replaces the amendatory provisions which specify what may constitute "minimum academic standards". SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 2. Deletes reference to: 105 ILCS 5/10-22.40 Adds reference to: 105 ILCS 5/2-3.64 from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.64 Changes the title and replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the provisions of the School Code relating to State assessment and the Prairie State Achievement Examination. Makes State assessment in English language arts (reading and writing) and mathematics applicable to 8th and 10th grade students and State assessment in the biological and physical sciences and social sciences applicable to 4th, 7th, and 11th grade students for school years after the 1997-98 school year. Provides that local assessments (now, only State assessment or teacher judgment) also may serve as a basis for determining that a remediation program should be developed for a 3rd or 5th grade student. Eliminates a requirement that IGAP scores be included in a student's permanent record. Specifies reasons why it is State policy to encourage school districts to continuously assess pupil proficiency. Requires school districts to administer the Prairie State Achievement Examination to its 10th grade and 11th grade students and eliminates a requirement that it be administered to 12th grade students. Permits those 11th and 12th grade students who have not received a score of excellent in any of the 4 fundamental academic areas included in the Prairie State Achievement Examination to retake any such portion of the examination. Adds an immediate effective date. Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE Last action date: 99-01-12 Location: House Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 1 SENATE - 2 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status