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IllinoisSB1740104th General Assembly (2025–2026)SenateWALLET
SCH CD-MANDATES-REORGANIZE
Sponsored By: Mary Edly-Allen (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
Summary
Amends the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act to make a change concerning school maintenance project grants. Amends the Soybean Ink Act to make a change concerning school districts. Amends the School Code. Removes outdated provisions regarding social science learning standards and provisions regarding meeting minimum higher education preparation and admission requirements. Removes language providing that students who do not take the State's final accountability assessment or its approved alternate assessment may not receive a regular high school diploma unless the student is exempted from taking the State assessments. Prohibits a school board from discriminating against, punishing, or penalizing a student because the student's parents or guardians are unable to pay any required fees or fines for the loss of school property. Removes the requirement that all paper purchased by a board of education, public schools, and attendance centers for publication of student newspapers be recycled newsprint. Increases the age for when an individualized education program must include transition services. Removes the minimum hour requirements for training on concussions and on issues related to domestic and sexual violence. Removes the requirement that a police training academy job training program be open to all students and that participation be tracked. Creates the School Code Mandate Reduction Council. Makes changes concerning commemorative holidays. Renumbers and reorganizes the Course of Study Article and other provisions. Makes conforming and other changes in various Acts. Repeals various Sections of the School Code, the Voting by Minors Act, and the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Effective immediately.
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30 provisions identified: 20 benefits, 5 costs, 5 mixed.
School materials help and debt protections
Districts must provide textbooks and required materials for children whose parents cannot afford them, subject to eligibility checks. Eligible children include those meeting federal free-meal guidelines and homeless children and youth. Schools cannot lower grades, block activities, or withhold records, transcripts, or diplomas over unpaid school balances. Students also cannot be punished because parents cannot pay fees or fines for lost school property. Violations of these protections are petty offenses.
Students receive health and lifesaving lessons
School health lessons must cover nutrition, family-life responsibilities, medically accurate abstinence information, disease prevention, mental health, and age-appropriate abuse prevention and consent. Required topics also include public and environmental health, disaster safety, dental health, cancer, mental-health resources and treatment, and newborn safe-surrender law. AIDS instruction applies in grades 6–12; public high schools must teach allergy prevention, reaction recognition, and emergency epinephrine use. Secondary schools must provide CPR and defibrillator training following recognized national standards. Written parental objections excuse pupils from AIDS or family-life instruction and CPR or defibrillator training; refusal cannot trigger suspension or expulsion. The law also repeals the separate Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act while setting these curriculum requirements.
Students face foreign language graduation requirement
Students entering 9th grade in 2028–29 or later must complete 2 years of foreign language to graduate. American Sign Language may count. Students entering 9th grade in 2027–28 or earlier are exempt. The rule also excludes students with disabilities whose individualized education program determines their course of study. A third foreign-language year may meet the additional course requirement identified in the law.
Families gain bullying information and support
Districts, charter schools, and nonpublic, nonsectarian schools must use state-based bullying policies covering reports, school authority, and victim services. Schools must review policies every 2 years and file updates by September 30 of the review year. After a missed deadline, schools have 14 days after receiving a written request before the state can publish noncompliance notices. Parents can request yearly bullying allegation and incident counts for their child's school, without identifying students or families. These schools can receive prevention grants, subject to appropriations, but schools failing bullying-data reporting rules are ineligible.
School fee relief for military families
Districts must waive all school fees and fines for lost school property for eligible military families. The student's parent must be a veteran or active-duty military member with income at or below 200% of the federal poverty line. Eligibility must be verified. Savings depend on the charges the student faces.
Students gain computer and career options
Beginning in 2023–24, districts serving any grades 9–12 must give every high school student access to at least one computer science course. The course must meet state learning standards. When districts require students to choose from a course list to graduate, that list must include a career and technical education course. This does not require every student to take computer science or career and technical education.
Students protected from unpaid school balances
School boards cannot punish students for unpaid school balances or a family's inability to pay required fees or fines. They cannot lower grades, block programs, or withhold records, grades, transcripts, or diplomas for these reasons. These protections apply whether or not the student received a fee waiver. Violations are petty offenses.
Health data collection includes privacy safeguards
Illinois' public health department may collect data on asthma, obesity, disability, and childhood cancer outcomes. It may also collect school asthma and obesity data for local governments or other organizations. Reporting is voluntary unless another law requires it, and written notices must explain response duties, purposes, and disclosures. Specified data collected for government or nonprofit groups must be combined and stripped of identifying details. Data use is limited to the stated purpose or another purpose the provider agrees to.
Concussion courses lose minimum time requirement
Approved concussion courses no longer must last at least 2 hours. Coaches, game officials, and covered non-licensed health professionals still need training at least once every 2 years. Required concussion topics remain unchanged.
Elementary students get cursive writing instruction
Public elementary schools must offer at least one unit of cursive-writing instruction before students finish grade 5. Each district sets a policy choosing the grade or grades that receive the instruction.
Expanded media lessons for high schoolers
The law repeals the former high school media literacy rule on July 1, 2027. Expanded media literacy and Internet safety requirements replace it for grades 9–12. The new lessons begin no earlier than the 2027–28 school year.
Families gain access to school wellness data
The State Board of Education must create an accessible school wellness database once it secures all needed funding. The database includes fitness-testing results and information about successful nutrition and physical-activity programs and policies. Districts choose whether to submit information.
High school students study personal finance
Public school students in grades 9–12 must study consumer education and financial literacy. Topics include debt, budgeting, savings, banking, taxes, insurance, contracts, student loans, identity-theft security, and homeownership. The State Board of Education approves or develops the curriculum and sets minimum teaching time. School boards may create an optional fund for financial-literacy training, competitions, and activities.
Public school students study climate change
Beginning in 2026–27, every public school must teach about climate change. Instruction covers environmental and ecological effects on people and communities, plus ways to address or reduce those effects. Subject to appropriations, the State Board of Education must provide teaching resources and professional learning opportunities for educators.
Schools face limits on animal experiments
Public schools cannot experiment on living animals for classroom demonstrations. They cannot dissect animals supplied by a pupil or killed in a pupil's presence. Dogs and cats cannot be killed for these purposes. Dissection of dead animals or animal parts must happen in class and involve only pupils studying them.
Schools get emergency training support
Public school boards must give teachers, administrators, and other designated staff emergency information within 30 days after each school year starts. It covers the Heimlich maneuver, hands-only CPR, and the district's defibrillator, following recognized national standards. Subject to appropriations, state matching grants cover half the cost of qualifying first-aid or CPR training. Districts must show they can pay the other half, and grants are awarded first-come, first-served.
Schools must address teen dating violence
Public school districts must adopt policies that prohibit teen dating violence. Policies cover dating relationships involving a person ages 13–19. They must provide age-appropriate education for grades 7–12 and school employees, response procedures, and designated officials to receive reports. Districts must notify students and parents about the policy.
Schools teach children everyday safety
Public schools must teach children to recognize abduction dangers and ways to avoid them. Districts serving any grades K–8 must adopt walking and bicycling safety policies and make that education available in those grades. K–12 violence-prevention and conflict-resolution instruction is required only when sufficient private or federal grant funds are available and received after July 1, 1993. The State Superintendent and child welfare department must share child sexual-abuse learning resources with public and nonpublic schools. Schools may use these resources in school or community programs and share them with parents.
Students get drug and overdose lessons
Schools must teach age-appropriate drug prevention every year in kindergarten through grade 4. Alcohol and drug instruction applies in grades 5–12, and fentanyl education applies in grades 6–12. Grades 9–12 lessons must cover fentanyl risks, drug lacing, detection, and overdose response; students must be assessed on them. Steroid-abuse prevention applies to grades 7–12 and interscholastic athletes. Districts may also offer support services for pupils affected by chemical dependency.
Students get updated online safety lessons
Beginning in 2027–28, public schools must teach age-appropriate online safety at least annually in grades 3–8. Lessons cover privacy, predators, deceptive messages, cyberbullying, reporting, illegal online conduct, and social-emotional health; schools may use existing courses. Grades 9–12 must receive a media-literacy and Internet-safety unit covering source checks, fact versus opinion, media creation, responsibility, penalties, and reporting. Subject to appropriations, the state must provide online teaching resources and educator learning opportunities, with periodic resource updates. The older Internet-safety curriculum rule ends July 1, 2027, alongside these replacement requirements.
Schools gain flexibility in printing purchases
Schools no longer must buy recycled newsprint for student newspapers. Those purchases also lose their special exclusion from recycled-paper purchasing calculations. Contractors no longer must use soybean-based ink for school district printing. The ink rule remains for other local governments, with an exception for quality and reasonable pricing.
Student police training can restrict entry
Qualifying districts and their police-training partners may set specific requirements for high school police job-training programs. The law removes guaranteed access regardless of a student's prior academic history. This applies to districts with a high school in counties with at least 175,000 residents. Districts must partner with a local police department, county sheriff, or police training academy.
School complaint training loses hourly minimum
People resolving school complaints involving domestic or sexual violence must train before starting those duties and every year afterward. The law removes the former 8-hour minimum. Trainers must still have expertise in youth domestic or sexual violence and age-appropriate communication with students.
Schools and teacher programs drop safety requirements
Schools may still offer safety education, but the law removes language allowing at least 16 hours each school year. Approved teacher-preparation programs no longer must include safety instruction matched to the grade level of a teacher's license.
State drops two school curriculum duties
The State Board of Education no longer has a duty to adopt inclusive, revised social science standards by July 1, 2021. The law also removes required state help reviewing curricula for districts that may lack courses needed for public college admission. These changes do not directly alter tuition, financial aid, or college admission rules.
Illinois repeals Voting by Minors Act
The law repeals the Illinois Voting by Minors Act. The supplied text does not explain what that Act allowed or how repeal changes voting rules for minors.
School law reorganization removes older sections
The law repeals 13 School Code sections: 27-3, 27-3.5, 27-3.10, 27-12, 27-13.2, 27-15, 27-18, 27-19, 27-20, 27-20.2, 27-23.3, 27-23.12, and 28-19.2. It also removes Section 28-19.2 from the requirements listed for charter schools. The supplied provisions do not explain those sections' duties or protections, so specific effects on families cannot be determined.
Schools choose whether to teach health
Schools may choose whether to offer the covered consent, personal health, and sexual health lessons. Schools that offer them must follow the rules for those lessons. The State Board of Education remains bound by the applicable requirements.
Students get civics lessons and exams
Public elementary schools must provide at least one semester of civics in grade 6, 7, or 8 under state standards. Lessons include current issues, service learning, democratic simulations, and secret-ballot voting. Public schools and publicly funded educational institutions must teach patriotism, representative government, founding documents, and proper flag use. Students must pass an exam on those subjects for a graduation certificate; schools may combine lessons with civics and administer exams remotely. The law also requires daily Pledge of Allegiance recitation at elementary and secondary schools supported partly or fully by public funds.
School maintenance grants change reporting rules
School maintenance project grant agreements must explain payment rules, allowed spending, and financial controls. They must also require a final report describing the project and grant spending. These grants are exempt from the usual quarterly-report rule for grants over $25,000.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Mary Edly-Allen
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Adriane L. Johnson
Democratic • Senate
Anthony DeLuca
Democratic • House
Christopher Belt
Democratic • Senate
Doris Turner
Democratic • Senate
Joyce Mason
Democratic • House
Julie A. Morrison
Democratic • Senate
Katie Stuart
Democratic • House
Kimberly A. Lightford
Democratic • Senate
Laura Ellman
Democratic • Senate
Laura Faver Dias
Democratic • House
Linda Holmes
Democratic • Senate
Matt Hanson
Democratic • House
Meg Loughran Cappel
Democratic • Senate
Michael Crawford
Democratic • House
Michelle Mussman
Democratic • House
Napoleon Harris III
Democratic • Senate
Nicolle Grasse
Democratic • House
Rachel Ventura
Democratic • Senate
Steve Stadelman
Democratic • Senate
Suzy Glowiak Hilton
Democratic • Senate
Tracy Katz Muhl
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/31/2025
House Committee Amendment No. 1 Senate Concurs
Yes: 41 • No: 14
Senate vote • 5/31/2025
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Senate Concurs
Yes: 41 • No: 14
Senate vote • 5/31/2025
House Floor Amendment No. 4 Senate Concurs
Yes: 41 • No: 14
Senate vote • 5/27/2025
House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion To Concur Recommended Do Adopt Education;
Yes: 11 • No: 3
Senate vote • 5/27/2025
House Floor Amendment No. 4 Motion To Concur Recommended Do Adopt Education;
Yes: 11 • No: 3
Senate vote • 5/27/2025
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion To Concur Recommended Do Adopt Education;
Yes: 11 • No: 3
House vote • 5/23/2025
Third Reading - Standard Debate - Passed
Yes: 79 • No: 29
House vote • 5/21/2025
House Floor Amendment No. 4 Recommends Be Adopted Education Policy Committee;
Yes: 8 • No: 4
House vote • 5/14/2025
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Education Policy Committee;
Yes: 11 • No: 0
House vote • 5/7/2025
Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Education Policy Committee;
Yes: 12 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/9/2025
Third Reading - Passed;
Yes: 55 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/19/2025
Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Recommend Do Adopt Education;
Yes: 14 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/26/2025
Do Pass as Amended Education;
Yes: 10 • No: 3
Actions Timeline
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0391
8/15/2025SenateEffective Date August 15, 2025
8/15/2025SenateGovernor Approved
8/15/2025SenateSent to the Governor
6/27/2025SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Steve Stadelman
5/31/2025SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Doris Turner
5/31/2025SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Napoleon Harris III
5/31/2025SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Christopher Belt
5/31/2025SenatePassed Both Houses
5/31/2025SenateSenate Concurs
5/31/2025SenateHouse Floor Amendment No. 4 Senate Concurs 041-014-000
5/31/2025SenateHouse Floor Amendment No. 2 Senate Concurs 041-014-000
5/31/2025SenateHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Senate Concurs 041-014-000
5/31/2025SenateHouse Floor Amendment No. 4 Motion To Concur Recommended Do Adopt Education; 011-003-000
5/27/2025SenateHouse Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion To Concur Recommended Do Adopt Education; 011-003-000
5/27/2025SenateHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion To Concur Recommended Do Adopt Education; 011-003-000
5/27/2025SenateHouse Floor Amendment No. 4 Motion to Concur Assignments Referred to Education
5/27/2025SenateHouse Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Assignments Referred to Education
5/27/2025SenateHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Assignments Referred to Education
5/27/2025SenateHouse Floor Amendment No. 4 Motion to Concur Referred to Assignments
5/27/2025SenateHouse Floor Amendment No. 4 Motion to Concur Filed with Secretary Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
5/27/2025SenateHouse Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Referred to Assignments
5/27/2025SenateHouse Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Filed with Secretary Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
5/27/2025SenateHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Referred to Assignments
5/27/2025SenateHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Filed with Secretary Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
5/27/2025Senate
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House Amendment 4
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Senate Amendment 3
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