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91_HB1292
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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 from which the student has been suspended or
23 expelled for knowingly possessing in a school building or on
24 school grounds a weapon as defined in the Gun Free Schools
25 Act (20 U.S.C. 8921 et seq.), for knowingly possessing,
26 selling, or delivering in a school building or on school
27 grounds a controlled substance or cannabis, or for battering
28 a staff member of the school, and if the period of suspension
29 or expulsion has not expired at the time the student attempts
30 to transfer into another public school in the same or any
31 other school district: (i) any school student records
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1 required to be transferred shall include the date and
2 duration of the period of suspension or expulsion; and (ii)
3 with the exception of transfers into the Department of
4 Corrections school district, the student shall not be
5 permitted to attend class in the public school into which he
6 or she is transferring until the student has served the
7 entire period of the suspension or expulsion imposed by the
8 school from which the student is transferring. No public or
9 private school in this State shall accept or admit any
10 student presenting himself or herself for enrollment unless
11 that student can prove he or she is not currently suspended
12 or expelled for any weapons related offense as the term
13 weapon is defined in the Gun Free Schools Act. Each public
14 school and each private or nonpublic elementary or secondary
15 school in this State shall within 10 days after the student
16 has paid all of his or her outstanding fines and fees and at
17 its own expense forward an official transcript of the
18 scholastic records of each student transferring from that
19 school in strict accordance with the provisions of this
20 Section and the rules established by the State Board of
21 Education as herein provided.
22 The State Board of Education shall develop a one-page
23 standard form that school districts are required to provide
24 to any student who is moving out of the school district and
25 that contains the information about whether or not the
26 student is "in good standing" and whether or not his or her
27 medical records are up-to-date and complete. As used in this
28 Section, "in good standing" means that the student is not
29 being disciplined by a suspension or expulsion, but is
30 entitled to attend classes. No school district is required
31 to admit a new student unless he or she can produce the
32 standard form from the student's previous school district
33 enrollment.
34 (Source: P.A. 89-261, eff. 8-10-95; 89-622, eff. 8-9-96;
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1 89-698, eff. 1-14-97.)
2 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3 becoming law.