Rep. Fred Crespo

Filed: 3/20/2019

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3586

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3586 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
514-6.01 and 14-8.02f as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/14-6.01)  (from Ch. 122, par. 14-6.01)
7    Sec. 14-6.01. Powers and duties of school boards. School
8boards of one or more school districts establishing and
9maintaining any of the educational facilities described in this
10Article shall, in connection therewith, exercise similar
11powers and duties as are prescribed by law for the
12establishment, maintenance, and management of other recognized
13educational facilities. Such school boards shall include only
14eligible children in the program and shall comply with all the
15requirements of this Article and all rules and regulations
16established by the State Board of Education. Such school boards

 

 

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1shall accept in part-time attendance children with
2disabilities of the types described in Sections 14-1.02 through
314-1.07 who are enrolled in nonpublic schools. A request for
4part-time attendance must be submitted by a parent or guardian
5of the child with a disability and may be made only to those
6public schools located in the district where the child
7attending the nonpublic school resides; however, nothing in
8this Section shall be construed as prohibiting an agreement
9between the district where the child resides and another public
10school district to provide special educational services if such
11an arrangement is deemed more convenient and economical.
12Special education and related services must be provided in
13accordance with the student's IEP no later than 10 school
14attendance days after notice is provided to the parents
15pursuant to Section 300.503 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal
16Regulations and implementing rules adopted by the State Board
17of Education. Transportation for students in part time
18attendance shall be provided only if required in the child's
19individualized educational program on the basis of the child's
20disabling condition or as the special education program
21location may require.
22    Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, a school board
23shall post on its Internet website, if any, and incorporate
24into its student handbook or newsletter notice that students
25with disabilities who do not qualify for an individualized
26education program, as required by the federal Individuals with

 

 

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1Disabilities Education Act and implementing provisions of this
2Code, may qualify for services under Section 504 of the federal
3Rehabilitation Act of 1973 if the child (i) has a physical or
4mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major
5life activities, (ii) has a record of a physical or mental
6impairment, or (iii) is regarded as having a physical or mental
7impairment. Such notice shall identify the location and phone
8number of the office or agent of the school district to whom
9inquiries should be directed regarding the identification,
10assessment and placement of such children.
11    For a school district organized under Article 34 only,
12beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the school district
13shall, in collaboration with its primary office overseeing
14special education, publish on the school district's publicly
15available website any proposed changes to its special education
16policies, directives, guidelines, or procedures that impact
17the provision of educational or related services to students
18with disabilities or the procedural safeguards afforded to
19students with disabilities or their parents or guardians made
20by the school district or school board. Any policy, directive,
21guideline, or procedural change that impacts those provisions
22or safeguards that is authorized by the school district's
23primary office overseeing special education or any other
24administrative office of the school district must be published
25on the school district's publicly available website no later
26than 45 days before the adoption of that change. Any policy

 

 

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1directive, guideline, or procedural change that impacts those
2provisions or safeguards that is authorized by the school board
3must be published on the school district's publicly available
4website no later than 30 days before the date of presentation
5to the school board for adoption. The school district's website
6must allow for virtual public comments on proposed special
7education policy, directive, guideline, or procedural changes
8that impact the provision of educational or related services to
9students with disabilities or the procedural safeguards
10afforded to students with disabilities or their parents or
11guardians from the date of the notification of the proposed
12change on the website until the date the change is adopted by
13the school district or until the date the change is presented
14to the school board for adoption. After the period for public
15comment is closed, the school district must maintain all public
16comments for a period of not less than 2 years from the date
17the special education change is adopted. The public comments
18are subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The school board
19shall, at a minimum, advertise the notice of the change and
20availability for public comment on its website. The State Board
21of Education may add additional reporting requirements for the
22district beyond policy, directive, guideline, or procedural
23changes that impact the provision of educational or related
24services to students with disabilities or the procedural
25safeguards afforded to students with disabilities or their
26parents or guardians if the State Board determines it is in the

 

 

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1best interest of the students enrolled in the district
2receiving special education services.
3    School boards shall immediately provide upon request by any
4person written materials and other information that indicates
5the specific policies, procedures, rules and regulations
6regarding the identification, evaluation or educational
7placement of children with disabilities under Section 14-8.02
8of the School Code. Such information shall include information
9regarding all rights and entitlements of such children under
10this Code, and of the opportunity to present complaints with
11respect to any matter relating to educational placement of the
12student, or the provision of a free appropriate public
13education and to have an impartial due process hearing on the
14complaint. The notice shall inform the parents or guardian in
15the parents' or guardian's native language, unless it is
16clearly not feasible to do so, of their rights and all
17procedures available pursuant to this Act and federal Public
18Law 94-142; it shall be the responsibility of the State
19Superintendent to develop uniform notices setting forth the
20procedures available under this Act and federal Public Law
2194-142, as amended, to be used by all school boards. The notice
22shall also inform the parents or guardian of the availability
23upon request of a list of free or low-cost legal and other
24relevant services available locally to assist parents or
25guardians in exercising rights or entitlements under this Code.
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1school district must make the entirety of its special education
2Procedural Manual and any other guidance documents pertaining
3to special education publicly available, in print and on the
4school district's website, in both English and Spanish. Upon
5request, the school district must make the Procedural Manual
6and other guidance documents available in print in any other
7language and accessible for individuals with disabilities.
8    Any parent or guardian who is deaf, or does not normally
9communicate using spoken English, who participates in a meeting
10with a representative of a local educational agency for the
11purposes of developing an individualized educational program
12shall be entitled to the services of an interpreter.
13    No student with a disability or, in a school district
14organized under Article 34 of this Code, child with a learning
15disability may be denied promotion, graduation or a general
16diploma on the basis of failing a minimal competency test when
17such failure can be directly related to the disabling condition
18of the student. For the purpose of this Act, "minimal
19competency testing" is defined as tests which are constructed
20to measure the acquisition of skills to or beyond a certain
21defined standard.
22    Effective July 1, 1966, high school districts are
23financially responsible for the education of pupils with
24disabilities who are residents in their districts when such
25pupils have reached age 15 but may admit children with
26disabilities into special educational facilities without

 

 

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1regard to graduation from the eighth grade after such pupils
2have reached the age of 14 1/2 years. Upon a pupil with a
3disability attaining the age of 14 1/2 years, it shall be the
4duty of the elementary school district in which the pupil
5resides to notify the high school district in which the pupil
6resides of the pupil's current eligibility for special
7education services, of the pupil's current program, and of all
8evaluation data upon which the current program is based. After
9an examination of that information the high school district may
10accept the current placement and all subsequent timelines shall
11be governed by the current individualized educational program;
12or the high school district may elect to conduct its own
13evaluation and multidisciplinary staff conference and
14formulate its own individualized educational program, in which
15case the procedures and timelines contained in Section 14-8.02
16shall apply.
17(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 99-592, eff. 7-22-16;
18100-201, eff. 8-18-17; 100-1112, eff. 8-28-18.)
 
19    (105 ILCS 5/14-8.02f)
20    Sec. 14-8.02f. Individualized education program meeting
21protections ; municipality with 1,000,000 or more inhabitants.
22    (a) (Blank). This Section only applies to school districts
23organized under Article 34 of this Code.
24    (b) This subsection (b) applies only to a school district
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1prior to a child's individualized education program meeting or
2as soon as possible if a meeting is scheduled within 10
3calendar days with written parental consent, the school board
4or school personnel must provide the child's parent or guardian
5with a written notification of the services that require a
6specific data collection procedure from the school district for
7services related to the child's individualized education
8program. The notification must indicate, with a checkbox,
9whether specific data has been collected for the child's
10individualized education program services. For purposes of
11this subsection (b), individualized education program services
12must include, but are not limited to, paraprofessional support,
13an extended school year, transportation, therapeutic day
14school, and services for specific learning disabilities.
15    (c) No later than 5 school days prior to a child's
16individualized education program eligibility meeting or
17meeting to review a child's individualized education program,
18or as soon as possible if an individualized education program
19meeting is scheduled within 5 school days with written parental
20or guardian consent, the local education agency must provide
21the child's parent or guardian with copies of all relevant
22information collected about the child so that the parent or
23guardian may participate in the meeting as a fully-informed
24team member. The relevant documentation must include, but is
25not limited to, all evaluations and collected data that will be
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1to be eligible for an individualized education program, a draft
2copy of all individualized education program components that
3will be discussed by the individualized education program team,
4other than the educational and related service minutes proposed
5for the child and the child's educational placement. as soon as
6possible if a meeting is scheduled within 5 school days with
7written parental consent, the school board or school personnel
8must provide the child's parent or guardian with a draft
9individualized education program. The draft must contain all
10relevant information collected about the child and must
11include, but is not limited to, the program's goals, draft
12accommodations and modifications, copies of all conducted
13evaluations, and any collected data.
14    (d) Local education agencies must make related service logs
15that record the type of related services administered under the
16child's individualized education program and the minutes of
17each type of related service that has been administered
18available to the child's parent or guardian at the annual
19review of the child's individualized education program and must
20also provide a copy of the related service logs at any time
21upon request of the child's parent or guardian. The local
22education agency must inform the child's parent or guardian
23within 20 school days from the beginning of the school year or
24upon establishment of an individualized education program of
25his or her ability to request those related service logs. If a
26child's individualized education program team determines that

 

 

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1certain services are required in order for the child to receive
2a free, appropriate public education and those services are not
3administered implemented within 10 school days after a date or
4frequency set forth by the child's individualized education
5program the team's determination, then the local education
6agency school board shall provide the child's parent or
7guardian with written notification that those services have not
8yet been administered to the child. The notification must be
9provided to the child's parent or guardian within 3 school days
10of the local education agency's non-compliance with the child's
11individualized education program and must include information
12on the parent's or guardian's ability to request compensatory
13services. In this subsection (d), "school days" does not
14include days where a child is absent from school for reasons
15unrelated to a lack of individualized education program
16services.
17    (e) The State Board of Education may create a telephone
18hotline to address complaints regarding the special education
19services or lack of special education services of a school
20district subject to this Section. If a hotline is created, it
21must be available to all students enrolled in the school
22district, parents or guardians of those students, and school
23personnel. If a hotline is created, any complaints received
24through the hotline must be registered and recorded with the
25State Board's monitor of special education policies. No
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1be retaliated against for submitting a complaint through a
2telephone hotline created by the State Board under this
3subsection (e).
4    (f) A school district subject to this Section may not use
5any measure that would prevent or delay an individualized
6education program team from adding a service to the program or
7create a time restriction in which a service is prohibited from
8being added to the program. The school district may not build
9functions into its computer software that would remove any
10services from a student's individualized education program
11without the approval of the program team and may not prohibit
12the program team from adding a service to the program.
13(Source: P.A. 100-993, eff. 8-20-18.)
 
14    Section 10. The Illinois School Student Records Act is
15amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
 
16    (105 ILCS 10/2)  (from Ch. 122, par. 50-2)
17    Sec. 2. As used in this Act,
18    (a) "Student" means any person enrolled or previously
19enrolled in a school.
20    (b) "School" means any public preschool, day care center,
21kindergarten, nursery, elementary or secondary educational
22institution, vocational school, special educational facility
23or any other elementary or secondary educational agency or
24institution and any person, agency or institution which

 

 

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1maintains school student records from more than one school, but
2does not include a private or non-public school.
3    (c) "State Board" means the State Board of Education.
4    (d) "School Student Record" means any writing or other
5recorded information concerning a student and by which a
6student may be individually identified, maintained by a school
7or at its direction or by an employee of a school, regardless
8of how or where the information is stored. The following shall
9not be deemed school student records under this Act: writings
10or other recorded information maintained by an employee of a
11school or other person at the direction of a school for his or
12her exclusive use; provided that all such writings and other
13recorded information are destroyed not later than the student's
14graduation or permanent withdrawal from the school; and
15provided further that no such records or recorded information
16may be released or disclosed to any person except a person
17designated by the school as a substitute unless they are first
18incorporated in a school student record and made subject to all
19of the provisions of this Act. School student records shall not
20include information maintained by law enforcement
21professionals working in the school.
22    (e) "Student Permanent Record" means the minimum personal
23information necessary to a school in the education of the
24student and contained in a school student record. Such
25information may include the student's name, birth date,
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1attendance records, and such other entries as the State Board
2may require or authorize.
3    (f) "Student Temporary Record" means all information
4contained in a school student record but not contained in the
5student permanent record. Such information may include family
6background information, intelligence test scores, aptitude
7test scores, psychological and personality test results,
8teacher evaluations, and other information of clear relevance
9to the education of the student, all subject to regulations of
10the State Board. The information shall include information
11provided under Section 8.6 of the Abused and Neglected Child
12Reporting Act and information contained in service logs
13maintained by a local education agency under subsection (d) of
14Section 14-8.02f of the School Code. In addition, the student
15temporary record shall include information regarding serious
16disciplinary infractions that resulted in expulsion,
17suspension, or the imposition of punishment or sanction. For
18purposes of this provision, serious disciplinary infractions
19means: infractions involving drugs, weapons, or bodily harm to
20another.
21    (g) "Parent" means a person who is the natural parent of
22the student or other person who has the primary responsibility
23for the care and upbringing of the student. All rights and
24privileges accorded to a parent under this Act shall become
25exclusively those of the student upon his 18th birthday,
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1military service, whichever occurs first. Such rights and
2privileges may also be exercised by the student at any time
3with respect to the student's permanent school record.
4(Source: P.A. 92-295, eff. 1-1-02.)
 
5    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
62019.".