Public Act 0881 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB2691 Enrolled LRB095 05590 NHT 25680 b

Public Act 095-0881

AN ACT concerning education.

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

Section 5. The Campus Security Act is amended by changing Section 1 and by adding Section 20 as follows:

(110 ILCS 12/1)

Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Campus Security Enhancement Act of 2008.

(Source: P.A. 88-629, eff. 9-9-94.)

(110 ILCS 12/20 new)

Sec. 20. Campus security enhancement.

(a) In this Section, "higher education institution" means a public university, a public community college, or an independent, not-for-profit or for-profit higher education institution located in this State.

(b) Each higher education institution is required to do the following:

(1) develop a National Incident Management System-compliant, all-hazards, emergency response plan in partnership with the institution's county or major municipal emergency management official, report the plan to this official, and have training and exercises for the plan annually at a minimum; and

(2) develop an inter-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional campus violence prevention plan, including coordination of and communication between all available campus and local mental health and first response resources, in partnership with the institution's county or major municipal emergency management official, report the plan to this official, and have training and exercises for the plan annually at a minimum. The campus violence prevention plan shall include the development and implementation of a campus violence prevention committee and campus threat assessment team.

(c) County and major municipal emergency managers and Illinois Emergency Management Agency regional coordinators shall assist in the planning and training process for the plans specified in subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (b) of this Section with all resources available to them.

(d) County and major municipal emergency managers and Illinois Emergency Management Agency regional coordinators shall provide higher education institutions with appropriate standards and guidelines for the plans specified in subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (b) of this Section and for the training and exercises for these plans.

Effective Date: 1/1/2009