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91_HB0124
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
2 2-3.13a.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
6 Section 2-3.13a as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/2-3.13a) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.13a)
8 Sec. 2-3.13a. Scholastic records; transferring students.
9 The State Board of Education shall establish and implement
10 rules requiring all of the public schools and all private or
11 nonpublic elementary and secondary schools located in this
12 State, whenever any such school has a student who is
13 transferring to any other public elementary or secondary
14 school located in this or in any other state, to forward
15 within 10 days of notice of the student's transfer an
16 unofficial record of that student's grades to the school to
17 which such student is transferring. Each public school at
18 the same time also shall forward to the school to which the
19 student is transferring the remainder of the student's school
20 student records as required by the Illinois School Student
21 Records Act. In addition, if a student is transferring from a
22 public school, whether located in this or in any other state,
23 from which the student has been suspended or expelled for
24 knowingly possessing in a school building or on school
25 grounds a weapon as defined in the Gun Free Schools Act (20
26 U.S.C. 8921 et seq.), for knowingly possessing, selling, or
27 delivering in a school building or on school grounds a
28 controlled substance or cannabis, or for battering a staff
29 member of the school, and if the period of suspension or
30 expulsion has not expired at the time the student attempts to
31 transfer into another public school in the same or any other
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1 school district: (i) any school student records required to
2 be transferred shall include the date and duration of the
3 period of suspension or expulsion; and (ii) with the
4 exception of transfers into the Department of Corrections
5 school district, the student shall not be permitted to attend
6 class in the public school into which he or she is
7 transferring until the student has served the entire period
8 of the suspension or expulsion imposed by the school from
9 which the student is transferring. The changes made by this
10 amendatory Act of 1999 are declaratory of existing law. Each
11 public school and each private or nonpublic elementary or
12 secondary school in this State shall within 10 days after the
13 student has paid all of his or her outstanding fines and fees
14 and at its own expense forward an official transcript of the
15 scholastic records of each student transferring from that
16 school in strict accordance with the provisions of this
17 Section and the rules established by the State Board of
18 Education as herein provided.
19 The State Board of Education shall develop a one-page
20 standard form that school districts are required to provide
21 to any student who is moving out of the school district and
22 that contains the information about whether or not the
23 student is "in good standing" and whether or not his or her
24 medical records are up-to-date and complete. As used in this
25 Section, "in good standing" means that the student is not
26 being disciplined by a suspension or expulsion, but is
27 entitled to attend classes. No school district is required
28 to admit a new student unless he or she can produce the
29 standard form from the student's previous school district
30 enrollment.
31 (Source: P.A. 89-261, eff. 8-10-95; 89-622, eff. 8-9-96;
32 89-698, eff. 1-14-97.)
33 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
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1 becoming law.