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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 124
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 124 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
5 Section 2-3.13a as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/2-3.13a) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.13a)
7 Sec. 2-3.13a. Scholastic records; transferring students.
8 The State Board of Education shall establish and implement
9 rules requiring all of the public schools and all private or
10 nonpublic elementary and secondary schools located in this
11 State, whenever any such school has a student who is
12 transferring to any other public elementary or secondary
13 school located in this or in any other state, to forward
14 within 10 days of notice of the student's transfer an
15 unofficial record of that student's grades to the school to
16 which such student is transferring. Each public school at
17 the same time also shall forward to the school to which the
18 student is transferring the remainder of the student's school
19 student records as required by the Illinois School Student
20 Records Act. In addition, if a student is transferring from a
21 public school from which the student has been suspended or
22 expelled for knowingly possessing in a school building or on
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1 school grounds a weapon as defined in the Gun Free Schools
2 Act (20 U.S.C. 8921 et seq.), for knowingly possessing,
3 selling, or delivering in a school building or on school
4 grounds a controlled substance or cannabis, or for battering
5 a staff member of the school, and if the period of suspension
6 or expulsion has not expired at the time the student attempts
7 to transfer into another public school in the same or any
8 other school district: (i) any school student records
9 required to be transferred shall include the date and
10 duration of the period of suspension or expulsion; and (ii)
11 with the exception of transfers into the Department of
12 Corrections school district, the student shall not be
13 permitted to attend class in the public school into which he
14 or she is transferring until the student has served the
15 entire period of the suspension or expulsion imposed by the
16 school from which the student is transferring. No public or
17 private school in this State shall accept or admit any
18 student presenting himself or herself for enrollment unless
19 that student can prove he or she is not currently suspended
20 or expelled for any weapons related offense as the term
21 weapon is defined in the Gun Free Schools Act. Each public
22 school and each private or nonpublic elementary or secondary
23 school in this State shall within 10 days after the student
24 has paid all of his or her outstanding fines and fees and at
25 its own expense forward an official transcript of the
26 scholastic records of each student transferring from that
27 school in strict accordance with the provisions of this
28 Section and the rules established by the State Board of
29 Education as herein provided.
30 The State Board of Education shall develop a one-page
31 standard form that school districts are required to provide
32 to any student who is moving out of the school district and
33 that contains the information about whether or not the
34 student is "in good standing" and whether or not his or her
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1 medical records are up-to-date and complete. As used in this
2 Section, "in good standing" means that the student is not
3 being disciplined by a suspension or expulsion, but is
4 entitled to attend classes. No school district is required
5 to admit a new student unless he or she can produce the
6 standard form from the student's previous school district
7 enrollment.
8 (Source: P.A. 89-261, eff. 8-10-95; 89-622, eff. 8-9-96;
9 89-698, eff. 1-14-97.)
10 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11 becoming law.".