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1    AN ACT concerning education.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended  by adding Section 
52-3.157 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/2-3.157 new)
7    (Section scheduled to be repealed on May 31, 2015)
8    Sec. 2-3.157. Task Force on Civic Education.
9    (a)  The State Board of Education shall establish the Task 
10Force on Civic Education, to be comprised of all of the 
11following members, with an emphasis on bipartisan legislative 
12representation and diverse non-legislative stakeholder 
13representation:
14        (1)  One member appointed by the Speaker of the House of 
15    Representatives.
16        (2) One member appointed by the President of the 
17    Senate.
18        (3)  One member appointed by the Minority Leader of the 
19    House of Representatives.
20        (4)  One member appointed by the Minority Leader of the 
21    Senate.
22        (5)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
23    representing a teachers union.
 
 
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1        (6)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
2    representing the Chicago Teachers Union.
3        (7)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
4    representing social studies teachers.
5        (8)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
6    representing school boards.
7        (9)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
8    representing the media.
9        (10)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
10    representing the non-profit sector that promotes civic 
11    education as a core mission.
12        (11)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
13    representing the non-profit sector that promotes civic 
14    engagement among the general public.
15        (12) One member appointed by the president of an 
16    institution of higher education who teaches college or 
17    graduate-level government courses or facilitates a program 
18    dedicated to cultivating civic leaders.
19        (13) One member appointed by the head of an association 
20    representing principals or district superintendents. 
21    (b)  The members of the Task Force shall serve without 
22compensation but shall be reimbursed for their reasonable and 
23necessary expenses from funds appropriated to the State Board 
24of Education for that purpose. The members of the Task Force 
25shall be reimbursed for their travel expenses from 
26appropriations to the State Board of Education available for 
 
 
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1that purpose and subject to the rules of the appropriate travel 
2control board.
3    (c)  The members of the Task Force shall be considered 
4members with voting rights.  A quorum of the Task Force shall 
5consist of a simple majority of the members of the Task Force.  
6All actions and recommendations of the Task Force must be 
7approved by a simple majority vote of the members.
8    (d)  The Task Force shall meet initially at the call of the 
9State Superintendent of Education, shall elect one member as 
10chairperson at its initial meeting through a simple majority 
11vote of the Task Force, and shall thereafter meet at the call 
12of the chairperson.
13    (e)  The State Board of Education shall provide 
14administrative and other support to the Task Force.
15    (f)  The Task Force is charged with all of the following 
16tasks:
17        (1)  To analyze the current state of civic education in 
18    this State.
19        (2)  To analyze current civic education laws in other 
20    jurisdictions, both mandated and permissive.
21        (3)  To identify best practices in civic education in 
22    other jurisdictions.
23        (4)  To make recommendations to the General Assembly 
24    focused on substantially increasing civic literacy and the 
25    capacity of youth to obtain the requisite knowledge, 
26    skills, and practices to be civically informed members of 
 
 
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1    the public.
2        (5)  To make funding recommendations if the Task Force's 
3    recommendations to the General Assembly would require a 
4    fiscal commitment.
5    (g)  No later than May 31, 2014, the Task Force shall 
6summarize its findings and recommendations in a report to the 
7General Assembly, filed as provided in Section 3.1 of the 
8General Assembly Organization Act.  Upon filing its report, the 
9Task Force is dissolved.
10    (h)  This Section is repealed on May 31, 2015.
 
 
11    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
12becoming law.