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IllinoisHB3065104th General Assembly (2025–2026)HouseWALLET
CPS-DISCIPLINE DISCLOSURE
Sponsored By: Sponsor information unavailable
Signed by Governor
Summary
Amends the School Code. Provides that the parent or guardian of a student against whom misconduct was committed by another student shall receive a copy of the disciplinary report from an investigation into the perpetrating student's act or acts of misconduct.
elementary & secondary education: administration, licensing & charter schoolsassignmentsexecutive
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14 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 1 costs, 10 mixed.
Behavioral health workers get education grants
Qualified behavioral health professionals can receive grants for up to four years, subject to state funding. Annual caps are $40,000 for psychiatrists and $20,000 for advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, and doctoral psychologists. Licensed clinical social workers, clinical professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists have a $15,000 annual cap. Listed substance-use professionals, certified alcohol and drug counselors, and certified recovery support specialists have a $4,000 cap. Qualifying master's-degree professionals have a $12,000 cap; qualifying bachelor's-degree professionals have a $6,000 cap. Covered fields include counseling, psychology, and social work, plus marriage and family therapy for master's degrees; education-loan payments are encouraged.
Earlier teacher scholars gain repayment protections
Recipients with pre-2025–2026 awards and signed teaching agreements can complete their full service under the amended school rules. They must receive another scholarship on or after the law's effective date. The Commission must also credit employment covered by the transition rule toward agreements signed before that date. A separate repayment shield covers 2024–2025 Minority Teachers of Illinois recipients who would have remained eligible in 2025–2026. They must also fail to qualify for Teachers of Illinois and not complete their original educator-preparation program.
Teacher scholarships cover more college costs
Teachers of Illinois scholarships replace the former $5,000 and $7,500 annual limits with awards based on total attendance costs. The scholarship and other aid together cannot exceed that total. Schools receive payments, usually in two or three installments, apply them to eligible costs, and release any remaining balance. Schools can request payment 10 days before a term; requests are processed in order received, as money is available. Schools must verify enrollment and return payments for withdrawn students; specified final-term and single-term awards can use one payment.
Graduate faculty grants change eligibility rules
Beginning with 2025–2026 awards, Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois grants drop racial eligibility and require prior undergraduate Pell Grant receipt. Applicants need citizenship or permanent residency, three years of Illinois residency, financial need, and a bachelor's degree from an Illinois-authorized institution. They need a 2.75 GPA in their last 60 undergraduate hours and full-time eligible graduate or professional study for at least nine months yearly. Participating schools must be publicly operated, Illinois-based, authorized, and offer graduate-level or prerequisite instruction, with at least 45% Pell recipients under the three-year measure. Students apply through their intended school, which verifies and submits applications and renewals; recipients must accept work commitments and maintain academic and financial-aid eligibility.
New eligibility rules for teacher scholarships
Beginning with 2025–2026 awards, Teachers of Illinois scholarships replace race-based eligibility with school-district poverty and teacher-vacancy tests. Applicants must have attended a district averaging at least 70% free or reduced-price lunch eligibility over three available school years. They must also have attended a district meeting the law's three-year teacher-vacancy test. Applicants need Illinois residency, citizenship or permanent residency, high school graduation, half-time teacher-licensure study, a 2.5 GPA, and satisfactory progress. Students must apply on time each year and complete the FAFSA; incomplete applications count from their completion date. Schools must report eligibility in time for awards, and returning recipients remain eligible despite later district-status changes if they meet all other requirements.
Teacher scholarship repayment includes hardship protections
Unmet teaching commitments turn Teachers of Illinois scholarships into loans due within 10 years. Repayment starts under the law's school-leaving, notice, or teaching deadlines, but not before six months after half-time enrollment ends. Approved military service, temporary disability, documented unemployment, or qualifying full-time study can pause payments and interest. A documented search for qualifying full-time district teaching work protects recipients from violation for one continuous period up to two years. Repayment is waived for permanent total disability confirmed by a physician's sworn statement, or death supported by documentation.
Teacher scholarships require qualifying Illinois service
Teachers of Illinois scholarship aid comes with a signed teaching agreement or promissory note before each year's payment. Recipients must teach continuously for at least one year per scholarship year, starting within one year after their scholarship program ends. Service must be in an Illinois public district meeting the law's three-year teacher-vacancy tests; districts with zero vacancies are excluded. Qualified bilingual recipients can instead serve in transitional bilingual education or schools with at least 20 English learners sharing one language classification. Recipients must use funds for education, provide proof of service when asked, and complete yearly follow-up forms.
Bilingual teacher applicants get reserved funding
At least 10% of teacher scholarship money is reserved for qualified bilingual applicants when funding is $2.85 million to under $4.2 million. The reserve rises to at least 30% when funding reaches $4.2 million. Within the reserve, priority goes to students concentrating in bilingual, bicultural teacher preparation; leftover money can serve other students starting January 1. When money is short, award priorities are eligible prior-year recipients, greatest financial need, earliest completed applications, then junior standing or higher. Bilingual status requires a State Seal of Biliteracy or a passing educator-licensure language test.
Graduate fellows get support with limits
The faculty-diversity grant board sets yearly awards and favors eligible returning fellows making satisfactory academic progress. Aid lasts no more than four years, and each award can cover no more than 12 months. Returning fellows do not lose eligibility solely because their school later falls below the Pell threshold. Schools must verify applicants, submit applications and renewals by the spring deadline, manage payments and records, and provide academic support and Illinois job-placement help. Payments depend on satisfactory progress; schools must recover and return funds when students fail award conditions, while the board seeks fair distribution across schools and fields.
Graduate grants carry work and repayment duties
Faculty-diversity grant recipients must accept a full-time Illinois college teaching or nonteaching appointment, or a qualifying State job. State service must last as many years as the recipient participated in the program. Alternatively, recipients must make a good-faith job search for at least five years and maintain school and board contact. Unmet award duties require repayment under board procedures, and all program grants fall under Illinois grant-recovery law. Recipients cannot be penalized when this law's eligibility changes cause their failure to meet award conditions.
Returning social work recipients get priority
When funding is short, school social work license scholarships first go to eligible recipients from the prior academic year. School and municipal social work loan-repayment grants first go to eligible recipients from the prior fiscal year. New qualified applicants come after continuing recipients in both programs. The law removes both programs' former priority for racial-minority applicants.
Tech scholarships change applicant priority rules
The Commission must set iGROW Tech Scholarship priorities around financial need or hardship and academic excellence. Minority-student status no longer serves as a priority factor. The law leaves the weighting of the remaining factors to the Commission.
Teacher scholarship outreach requirements are removed
Schools receiving teacher scholarship funds no longer must hold annual information sessions for teacher candidates of color. The law also removes a conditional outreach allocation for recruiting Black male applicants. That allocation allowed up to 3% of program funding for each of three fiscal years. It followed three years of spending below 90% and too few applications by January 1 to meet the reserved share.
Student aid statutes lose specific provisions
The law excludes grants under one referenced provision from Section 4.2 of the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act. It also repeals Section 65.30 of the Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. The supplied text does not explain either section's content, so effects on student aid or repayment cannot be determined.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
There is no primary sponsor on record.
Cosponsors
Graciela Guzmán
Democratic • Senate
Javier L. Cervantes
Democratic • Senate
Kimberly A. Lightford
Democratic • Senate
Laura Faver Dias
Democratic • House
Mattie Hunter
Democratic • Senate
Maurice A. West, II
Democratic • House
Robert Peters
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 10/31/2025
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 House Concurs
Yes: 96 • No: 0
House vote • 10/31/2025
Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 House Concurs
Yes: 96 • No: 0
House vote • 10/30/2025
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee;
Yes: 3 • No: 2
Senate vote • 10/30/2025
Third Reading - Passed;
Yes: 59 • No: 0
House vote • 10/30/2025
Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee;
Yes: 3 • No: 2
Senate vote • 5/15/2025
Do Pass as Amended Executive;
Yes: 9 • No: 4
House vote • 4/10/2025
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed
Yes: 114 • No: 0
House vote • 3/12/2025
Do Pass / Short Debate Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter Schools;
Yes: 9 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0437
11/21/2025HouseEffective Date November 21, 2025
11/21/2025HouseGovernor Approved
11/21/2025HouseSent to the Governor
11/20/2025HousePassed Both Houses
10/31/2025HouseHouse Concurs
10/31/2025HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Laura Faver Dias
10/31/2025HouseSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 House Concurs 096-000-000
10/31/2025HouseSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 House Concurs 096-000-000
10/31/2025House3/5 Vote Required
10/31/2025HouseAdded as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
10/31/2025SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 003-002-000
10/30/2025HouseSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 003-002-000
10/30/2025HouseAdded as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Javier L. Cervantes
10/30/2025SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Referred to Rules Committee
10/30/2025HouseSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Referred to Rules Committee
10/30/2025HouseSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion Filed Concur Rep. Maurice A. West, II
10/30/2025HouseSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion Filed Concur Rep. Maurice A. West, II
10/30/2025HousePlaced on Calendar Order of Concurrence Senate Amendment(s) 1, 2
10/30/2025HouseArrived in House
10/30/2025HouseThird Reading - Passed; 059-000-000
10/30/2025Senate3/5 Vote Required
10/30/2025SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
10/30/2025SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted; Peters
10/30/2025SenateRecalled to Second Reading
10/30/2025Senate
Bill Text
Engrossed
Enrolled
Introduced
Senate Amendment 1
Senate Amendment 2
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