Bill Status of HB3973  101st General Assembly

Short Description:  SCH CD-SPECIAL ED-PRIVATE FAC

House Sponsors
Rep. Keith R. Wheeler - Barbara Hernandez - Jeff Keicher - Grant Wehrli - Deanne M. Mazzochi, Anne Stava-Murray, Amy Grant, David A. Welter, Mark Batinick, Diane Pappas, Dan Ugaste and Margo McDermed

Last Action
DateChamber Action
  1/13/2021HouseSession Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance
105 ILCS 5/14-7.02from Ch. 122, par. 14-7.02


Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Allows a private special education facility in this State that is a nonprofit entity and that provides special education services only to students who are referred to it by a public school district in this State to require tuition payments by a school district monthly prior to the provision of special education services in accordance with a student's individualized education program for the period that the student is enrolled in the facility pursuant to a placement contract between the facility and the student's school district. Provides that, at or before the end of each regular school term and each summer school term, the private special education facility shall refund to a school district any tuition funds collected by the facility for days that a student was not enrolled in the facility, and if, for any reason, the facility does not satisfy the requirements of the Article or any rules adopted by the State Board of Education regulating private special education facilities, then the State Board, at the request of the school district, may determine that the facility shall refund any tuition funds collected by the facility for days that it was determined by the State Board that the facility was in noncompliance with special education rules. Effective immediately.

Actions 
DateChamber Action
  11/15/2019HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Keith R. Wheeler
  11/18/2019HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Barbara Hernandez
  11/18/2019HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jeff Keicher
  12/2/2019HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava-Murray
  12/2/2019HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Amy Grant
  12/4/2019HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. David A. Welter
  12/6/2019HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Grant Wehrli
  12/19/2019HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Mark Batinick
  1/8/2020HouseFirst Reading
  1/8/2020HouseReferred to Rules Committee
  1/29/2020HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Diane Pappas
  2/3/2020HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Dan Ugaste
  2/10/2020HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Margo McDermed
  2/19/2020HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Deanne M. Mazzochi
  2/25/2020HouseAssigned to Elementary & Secondary Education: School Curriculum & Policies Committee
  6/23/2020HouseRule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
  1/13/2021HouseSession Sine Die