101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB3560

 

Introduced , by Rep. Monica Bristow

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/2-3.176 new
325 ILCS 5/7.2  from Ch. 23, par. 2057.2

    Amends the School Code. Provides that, after a home-schooling registration form is submitted, the State Board of Education must request a Child Protective Service Unit of the Department of Children and Family Services to investigate the home in which the home schooling will occur to ensure there is no suspected child abuse or neglect in the home. Provides that after the investigation by the Child Protective Service Unit is complete, the State Board must notify the school district in which the home is located that the child is being home-schooled. Provides that once every 2 school years, the State Board must inspect the academic records of a registered home-school student. Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act to require a Child Protective Service Unit to investigate the home of a child upon a request from the State Board. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section
52-3.176 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/2-3.176 new)
7    Sec. 2-3.176. Home-schooling registration; requirements.
8    (a) After a home-schooling registration form is submitted,
9the State Board of Education must request a Child Protective
10Service Unit of the Department of Children and Family Services
11under Section 7.2 of the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting
12Act to investigate the home in which the home schooling will
13occur to ensure there is no suspected child abuse or neglect in
14the home. After the investigation by the Child Protective
15Service Unit is complete, the State Board must notify the
16school district in which the home is located that the child is
17being home-schooled.
18    (b) Once every 2 school years, the State Board must inspect
19the academic records of a registered home-school student.
 
20    Section 10. The Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act is
21amended by changing Section 7.2 as follows:
 

 

 

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1    (325 ILCS 5/7.2)  (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.2)
2    Sec. 7.2. The Department shall establish a Child Protective
3Service Unit within each geographic region as designated by the
4Director of the Department. The Child Protective Service Unit
5shall perform those functions assigned by this Act to it and
6only such others that would further the purposes of this Act.
7It shall have a sufficient staff of qualified personnel to
8fulfill the purpose of this Act and be organized in such a way
9as to maximize the continuity of responsibility, care and
10service of the individual workers toward the individual
11children and families.
12    The Child Protective Service Unit shall designate members
13of each unit to receive specialty training to serve as special
14consultants to unit staff and the public in the areas of child
15sexual abuse, child deaths and injuries, and out-of-home
16investigations.
17    If a child protective investigator of a Child Protective
18Service Unit is unable to obtain assistance from other unit
19members when responding to a high-risk report of child abuse or
20neglect and the child protective investigator has a reasonable
21belief or suspicion that a subject named in the report has the
22potential for violence, the child protective investigator may
23request assistance from local law enforcement officers to be
24provided at a mutually available time. Law enforcement officers
25shall, upon request, make all reasonable efforts to assist the
26child protective investigator in receiving law enforcement

 

 

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1assistance from any other police jurisdiction that is outside
2the accompanying officers' primary jurisdiction.
3    Upon receiving a request under Section 2-3.176 of the
4School Code, a Child Protective Service Unit must investigate
5the home of a child whose parent or guardian has submitted a
6home-schooling registration form with the State Board of
7Education to ensure there is no suspected child abuse or
8neglect in the home.
9(Source: P.A. 100-625, eff. 7-20-18.)
 
10    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11becoming law.