Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB4443 Compare Versions

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1	1	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4443 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 105 ILCS 128/20 Amends the School Safety Drill Act. Provides that a law enforcement lockdown drill must not be conducted on the day of or within 2 days before a school-administered standardized test. LRB103 33377 RJT 63189 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4443 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 105 ILCS 128/20 105 ILCS 128/20 Amends the School Safety Drill Act. Provides that a law enforcement lockdown drill must not be conducted on the day of or within 2 days before a school-administered standardized test. LRB103 33377 RJT 63189 b LRB103 33377 RJT 63189 b A BILL FOR
2	2	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4443 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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11	11	1 AN ACT concerning education.
12	12	2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
13	13	3 represented in the General Assembly:
14	14	4 Section 5. The School Safety Drill Act is amended by
15	15	5 changing Section 20 as follows:
16	16	6 (105 ILCS 128/20)
17	17	7 (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 103-197)
18	18	8 Sec. 20. Number of drills; incidents covered; local
19	19	9 authority participation.
20	20	10 (a) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
21	21	11 minimum of 3 school evacuation drills to address and prepare
22	22	12 students and school personnel for fire incidents. These drills
23	23	13 must meet all of the following criteria:
24	24	14 (1) One of the 3 school evacuation drills shall
25	25	15 require the participation of the appropriate local fire
26	26	16 department or district.
27	27	17 (A) Each local fire department or fire district
28	28	18 must contact the appropriate school administrator or
29	29	19 his or her designee no later than September 1 of each
30	30	20 year in order to arrange for the participation of the
31	31	21 department or district in the school evacuation drill.
32	32	22 (B) Each school administrator or his or her
33	33	23 designee must contact the responding local fire
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68	68	1 official no later than September 15 of each year and
69	69	2 propose to the local fire official 4 dates within the
70	70	3 month of October, during at least 2 different weeks of
71	71	4 October, on which the drill shall occur. The fire
72	72	5 official may choose any of the 4 available dates, and
73	73	6 if he or she does so, the drill shall occur on that
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75	75	8 (C) The school administrator or his or her
76	76	9 designee and the local fire official may also, by
77	77	10 mutual agreement, set any other date for the drill,
78	78	11 including a date outside of the month of October.
79	79	12 (D) If the fire official does not select one of the
80	80	13 4 offered dates in October or set another date by
81	81	14 mutual agreement, the requirement that the school
82	82	15 include the local fire service in one of its mandatory
83	83	16 school evacuation drills shall be waived. Schools,
84	84	17 however, shall continue to be strongly encouraged to
85	85	18 include the fire service in a school evacuation drill
86	86	19 at a mutually agreed-upon time.
87	87	20 (E) Upon the participation of the local fire
88	88	21 service, the appropriate local fire official shall
89	89	22 certify that the school evacuation drill was
90	90	23 conducted.
91	91	24 (F) When scheduling the school evacuation drill,
92	92	25 the school administrator or his or her designee and
93	93	26 the local fire department or fire district may, by
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104	104	1 mutual agreement on or before September 14, choose to
105	105	2 waive the provisions of subparagraphs (B), (C), and
106	106	3 (D) of this paragraph (1).
107	107	4 Additional school evacuation drills for fire incidents
108	108	5 may involve the participation of the appropriate local
109	109	6 fire department or district.
110	110	7 (2) Schools may conduct additional school evacuation
111	111	8 drills to account for other evacuation incidents,
112	112	9 including without limitation suspicious items or bomb
113	113	10 threats.
114	114	11 (3) All drills shall be conducted at each school
115	115	12 building that houses school children.
116	116	13 (b) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
117	117	14 minimum of one bus evacuation drill. This drill shall be
118	118	15 accounted for in the curriculum in all public schools and in
119	119	16 all other educational institutions in this State that are
120	120	17 supported or maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds
121	121	18 and that provide instruction in any of the grades kindergarten
122	122	19 through 12. This curriculum shall include instruction in safe
123	123	20 bus riding practices for all students. Schools may conduct
124	124	21 additional bus evacuation drills. All drills shall be
125	125	22 conducted at each school building that houses school children.
126	126	23 (b-5) Notwithstanding the minimum requirements established
127	127	24 by this Act, private schools that do not utilize a bus to
128	128	25 transport students for any purpose are exempt from subsection
129	129	26 (b) of this Section, provided that the chief school
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140	140	1 administrator of the private school provides written assurance
141	141	2 to the State Board of Education that the private school does
142	142	3 not plan to utilize a bus to transport students for any purpose
143	143	4 during the current academic year. The assurance must be made
144	144	5 on a form supplied by the State Board of Education and filed no
145	145	6 later than October 15. If a private school utilizes a bus to
146	146	7 transport students for any purpose during an academic year
147	147	8 when an assurance pursuant to this subsection (b-5) has been
148	148	9 filed with the State Board of Education, the private school
149	149	10 shall immediately notify the State Board of Education and
150	150	11 comply with subsection (b) of this Section no later than 30
151	151	12 calendar days after utilization of the bus to transport
152	152	13 students, except that, at the discretion of the private
153	153	14 school, students chosen for participation in the bus
154	154	15 evacuation drill need include only the subgroup of students
155	155	16 that are utilizing bus transportation.
156	156	17 (c) During each academic year, schools must conduct a law
157	157	18 enforcement lockdown drill to address a school shooting
158	158	19 incident. No later than 90 days after the first day of each
159	159	20 school year, schools must conduct at least one law enforcement
160	160	21 lockdown drill that addresses an active threat or an active
161	161	22 shooter within a school building. Such drills must be
162	162	23 conducted according to the school district's or private
163	163	24 school's emergency and crisis response plans, protocols, and
164	164	25 procedures to evaluate the preparedness of school personnel
165	165	26 and students. Law enforcement lockdown drills must be
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176	176	1 conducted on days and times when students are normally present
177	177	2 in the school building and must involve participation from all
178	178	3 school personnel and students present at school at the time of
179	179	4 the lockdown drill, except that administrators or school
180	180	5 support personnel in their discretion may exempt students from
181	181	6 the lockdown drill. The appropriate local law enforcement
182	182	7 agency shall observe the administration of the lockdown drill.
183	183	8 All drills must be conducted at each school building that
184	184	9 houses school children.
185	185	10 (1) A law enforcement lockdown drill must meet all of
186	186	11 the following criteria:
187	187	12 (A) During each calendar year, the appropriate
188	188	13 local law enforcement agency shall contact the
189	189	14 appropriate school administrator to request to
190	190	15 participate in a law enforcement lockdown drill. The
191	191	16 school administrator and local law enforcement agency
192	192	17 shall set, by mutual agreement, a date for the
193	193	18 lockdown drill.
194	194	19 (A-5) The lockdown drill shall require the on-site
195	195	20 participation of the local law enforcement agency. If
196	196	21 a mutually agreeable date cannot be reached between
197	197	22 the school administrator and the appropriate local law
198	198	23 enforcement agency, then the school shall still hold
199	199	24 the lockdown drill without participation from the
200	200	25 agency.
201	201	26 (B) Upon the participation of a local law
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212	212	1 enforcement agency in a law enforcement lockdown
213	213	2 drill, the appropriate local law enforcement official
214	214	3 shall certify that the law enforcement lockdown drill
215	215	4 was conducted and notify the school in a timely manner
216	216	5 of any deficiencies noted during the drill.
217	217	6 (C) The lockdown drill must not include
218	218	7 simulations that mimic an actual school shooting
219	219	8 incident or active shooter event.
220	220	9 (D) All lockdown drills must be announced in
221	221	10 advance to all school personnel and students prior to
222	222	11 the commencement of the drill.
223	223	12 (E) Lockdown drill content must be age appropriate
224	224	13 and developmentally appropriate.
225	225	14 (F) Lockdown drills must include and involve
226	226	15 school personnel, including school-based mental health
227	227	16 professionals.
228	228	17 (G) Lockdown drills must include trauma-informed
229	229	18 approaches to address the concerns and well-being of
230	230	19 students and school personnel.
231	231	20 (H) The lockdown drill must not be conducted on
232	232	21 the day of or within 2 days before a
233	233	22 school-administered standardized test.
234	234	23 (2) Schools may conduct additional law enforcement
235	235	24 drills at their discretion.
236	236	25 (3) (Blank).
237	237	26 (4) School administrators and school support personnel
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248	248	1 may, in their discretion, exempt a student or students
249	249	2 from participating in a walk-through lockdown drill.
250	250	3 (5) Schools must provide sufficient information and
251	251	4 notification to parents and guardians in advance of any
252	252	5 walk-through lockdown drill that involves the
253	253	6 participation of students. Schools must also provide to
254	254	7 parents and guardians an opportunity to exempt their child
255	255	8 for any reason from participating in the walk-through
256	256	9 lockdown drill.
257	257	10 (6) Schools must provide alternative safety education
258	258	11 and instruction related to an active threat or active
259	259	12 shooter event to students who do not participate in a
260	260	13 walk-through lockdown drill to provide them with essential
261	261	14 information, training, and instruction through less
262	262	15 sensorial safety training methods.
263	263	16 (7) During the drill, students must be allowed to ask
264	264	17 questions related to the drill.
265	265	18 (8) Law enforcement may choose to run an active
266	266	19 shooter simulation, including simulated gun fire drills,
267	267	20 but only on school days when students are not present.
268	268	21 Parental notification is not required for drills conducted
269	269	22 pursuant to this paragraph (8) if students are not
270	270	23 required to be present.
271	271	24 (d) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
272	272	25 minimum of one severe weather and shelter-in-place drill to
273	273	26 address and prepare students and school personnel for possible
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284	284	1 tornado incidents and may conduct additional severe weather
285	285	2 and shelter-in-place drills to account for other incidents,
286	286	3 including without limitation earthquakes or hazardous
287	287	4 materials. All drills shall be conducted at each school
288	288	5 building that houses school children.
289	289	6 (Source: P.A. 102-395, eff. 8-16-21.)
290	290	7 (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 103-197)
291	291	8 Sec. 20. Number of drills; incidents covered; local
292	292	9 authority participation.
293	293	10 (a) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
294	294	11 minimum of 3 school evacuation drills to address and prepare
295	295	12 students and school personnel for fire incidents. These drills
296	296	13 must meet all of the following criteria:
297	297	14 (1) One of the 3 school evacuation drills shall
298	298	15 require the participation of the appropriate local fire
299	299	16 department or district.
300	300	17 (A) Each local fire department or fire district
301	301	18 must contact the appropriate school administrator or
302	302	19 his or her designee no later than September 1 of each
303	303	20 year in order to arrange for the participation of the
304	304	21 department or district in the school evacuation drill.
305	305	22 (B) Each school administrator or his or her
306	306	23 designee must contact the responding local fire
307	307	24 official no later than September 15 of each year and
308	308	25 propose to the local fire official 4 dates within the
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319	319	1 month of October, during at least 2 different weeks of
320	320	2 October, on which the drill shall occur. The fire
321	321	3 official may choose any of the 4 available dates, and
322	322	4 if he or she does so, the drill shall occur on that
323	323	5 date.
324	324	6 (C) The school administrator or his or her
325	325	7 designee and the local fire official may also, by
326	326	8 mutual agreement, set any other date for the drill,
327	327	9 including a date outside of the month of October.
328	328	10 (D) If the fire official does not select one of the
329	329	11 4 offered dates in October or set another date by
330	330	12 mutual agreement, the requirement that the school
331	331	13 include the local fire service in one of its mandatory
332	332	14 school evacuation drills shall be waived. Schools,
333	333	15 however, shall continue to be strongly encouraged to
334	334	16 include the fire service in a school evacuation drill
335	335	17 at a mutually agreed-upon time.
336	336	18 (E) Upon the participation of the local fire
337	337	19 service, the appropriate local fire official shall
338	338	20 certify that the school evacuation drill was
339	339	21 conducted.
340	340	22 (F) When scheduling the school evacuation drill,
341	341	23 the school administrator or his or her designee and
342	342	24 the local fire department or fire district may, by
343	343	25 mutual agreement on or before September 14, choose to
344	344	26 waive the provisions of subparagraphs (B), (C), and
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355	355	1 (D) of this paragraph (1).
356	356	2 Additional school evacuation drills for fire incidents
357	357	3 may involve the participation of the appropriate local
358	358	4 fire department or district.
359	359	5 (2) Schools may conduct additional school evacuation
360	360	6 drills to account for other evacuation incidents,
361	361	7 including without limitation suspicious items or bomb
362	362	8 threats.
363	363	9 (3) All drills shall be conducted at each school
364	364	10 building that houses school children.
365	365	11 (b) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
366	366	12 minimum of one bus evacuation drill. This drill shall be
367	367	13 accounted for in the curriculum in all public schools and in
368	368	14 all other educational institutions in this State that are
369	369	15 supported or maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds
370	370	16 and that provide instruction in any of the grades kindergarten
371	371	17 through 12. This curriculum shall include instruction in safe
372	372	18 bus riding practices for all students. Schools may conduct
373	373	19 additional bus evacuation drills. All drills shall be
374	374	20 conducted at each school building that houses school children.
375	375	21 (b-5) Notwithstanding the minimum requirements established
376	376	22 by this Act, private schools that do not utilize a bus to
377	377	23 transport students for any purpose are exempt from subsection
378	378	24 (b) of this Section, provided that the chief school
379	379	25 administrator of the private school provides written assurance
380	380	26 to the State Board of Education that the private school does
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391	391	1 not plan to utilize a bus to transport students for any purpose
392	392	2 during the current academic year. The assurance must be made
393	393	3 on a form supplied by the State Board of Education and filed no
394	394	4 later than October 15. If a private school utilizes a bus to
395	395	5 transport students for any purpose during an academic year
396	396	6 when an assurance pursuant to this subsection (b-5) has been
397	397	7 filed with the State Board of Education, the private school
398	398	8 shall immediately notify the State Board of Education and
399	399	9 comply with subsection (b) of this Section no later than 30
400	400	10 calendar days after utilization of the bus to transport
401	401	11 students, except that, at the discretion of the private
402	402	12 school, students chosen for participation in the bus
403	403	13 evacuation drill need include only the subgroup of students
404	404	14 that are utilizing bus transportation.
405	405	15 (c) During each academic year, schools must conduct a law
406	406	16 enforcement lockdown drill to address a school shooting
407	407	17 incident. No later than 90 days after the first day of each
408	408	18 school year, schools must conduct at least one law enforcement
409	409	19 lockdown drill that addresses an active threat or an active
410	410	20 shooter within a school building. Such drills must be
411	411	21 conducted according to the school district's or private
412	412	22 school's emergency and crisis response plans, protocols, and
413	413	23 procedures to evaluate the preparedness of school personnel
414	414	24 and students. Law enforcement lockdown drills must be
415	415	25 conducted on days and times when students are normally present
416	416	26 in the school building and must involve participation from all
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427	427	1 school personnel and students present at school at the time of
428	428	2 the lockdown drill, except that administrators or school
429	429	3 support personnel in their discretion may exempt students from
430	430	4 the lockdown drill. The appropriate local law enforcement
431	431	5 agency shall observe the administration of the lockdown drill.
432	432	6 All drills must be conducted at each school building that
433	433	7 houses school children.
434	434	8 (1) A law enforcement lockdown drill must meet all of
435	435	9 the following criteria:
436	436	10 (A) During each calendar year, the appropriate
437	437	11 local law enforcement agency shall contact the
438	438	12 appropriate school administrator to request to
439	439	13 participate in a law enforcement lockdown drill. The
440	440	14 school administrator and local law enforcement agency
441	441	15 shall set, by mutual agreement, a date for the
442	442	16 lockdown drill.
443	443	17 (A-5) The lockdown drill shall require the on-site
444	444	18 participation of the local law enforcement agency. If
445	445	19 a mutually agreeable date cannot be reached between
446	446	20 the school administrator and the appropriate local law
447	447	21 enforcement agency, then the school shall still hold
448	448	22 the lockdown drill without participation from the
449	449	23 agency.
450	450	24 (B) Upon the participation of a local law
451	451	25 enforcement agency in a law enforcement lockdown
452	452	26 drill, the appropriate local law enforcement official
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463	463	1 shall certify that the law enforcement lockdown drill
464	464	2 was conducted and notify the school in a timely manner
465	465	3 of any deficiencies noted during the drill.
466	466	4 (C) The lockdown drill must not include
467	467	5 simulations that mimic an actual school shooting
468	468	6 incident or active shooter event.
469	469	7 (D) All lockdown drills must be announced in
470	470	8 advance to all school personnel and students prior to
471	471	9 the commencement of the drill.
472	472	10 (E) Lockdown drill content must be age appropriate
473	473	11 and developmentally appropriate.
474	474	12 (F) Lockdown drills must include and involve
475	475	13 school personnel, including school-based mental health
476	476	14 professionals.
477	477	15 (G) Lockdown drills must include trauma-informed
478	478	16 approaches to address the concerns and well-being of
479	479	17 students and school personnel.
480	480	18 (H) The lockdown drill must not be conducted on
481	481	19 the day of or within 2 days before a
482	482	20 school-administered standardized test.
483	483	21 (2) Schools may conduct additional law enforcement
484	484	22 drills at their discretion.
485	485	23 (3) (Blank).
486	486	24 (4) School administrators and school support personnel
487	487	25 may, in their discretion, exempt a student or students
488	488	26 from participating in a walk-through lockdown drill. When
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499	499	1 deciding whether to exempt a student from participating in
500	500	2 a walk-through lockdown drill, the administrator and
501	501	3 school support personnel shall include the student's
502	502	4 individualized education program team or federal Section
503	503	5 504 plan team in the decision to exempt the student from
504	504	6 participating.
505	505	7 (5) Schools must provide sufficient information and
506	506	8 notification to parents and guardians in advance of any
507	507	9 walk-through lockdown drill that involves the
508	508	10 participation of students. Schools must also provide to
509	509	11 parents and guardians an opportunity to exempt their child
510	510	12 for any reason from participating in the walk-through
511	511	13 lockdown drill.
512	512	14 (6) Schools must provide alternative safety education
513	513	15 and instruction related to an active threat or active
514	514	16 shooter event to students who do not participate in a
515	515	17 walk-through lockdown drill to provide them with essential
516	516	18 information, training, and instruction through less
517	517	19 sensorial safety training methods.
518	518	20 (7) During the drill, students must be allowed to ask
519	519	21 questions related to the drill.
520	520	22 (8) Law enforcement may choose to run an active
521	521	23 shooter simulation, including simulated gun fire drills,
522	522	24 but only on school days when students are not present.
523	523	25 Parental notification is not required for drills conducted
524	524	26 pursuant to this paragraph (8) if students are not
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535	535	1 required to be present.
536	536	2 (d) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
537	537	3 minimum of one severe weather and shelter-in-place drill to
538	538	4 address and prepare students and school personnel for possible
539	539	5 tornado incidents and may conduct additional severe weather
540	540	6 and shelter-in-place drills to account for other incidents,
541	541	7 including without limitation earthquakes or hazardous
542	542	8 materials. All drills shall be conducted at each school
543	543	9 building that houses school children.
544	544	10 (Source: P.A. 102-395, eff. 8-16-21; 103-197, eff. 1-1-24.)
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