Rep. Deborah Conroy
Filed: 5/19/2014
 
 

 

 

 
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1
AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3951




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3951 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
4    "Section 5. The School Code is amended  by renumbering and 
5changing Section 2-3.157, as added by Public Act 98-301, as 
6follows:
 
7    (105 ILCS 5/2-3.158)
8    (Section scheduled to be repealed on May 31, 2015)
9    Sec. 2-3.158 2-3.157. Task Force on Civic Education.
10    (a)  The State Board of Education shall establish the Task 
11Force on Civic Education, to be comprised of all of the 
12following members, with an emphasis on bipartisan legislative 
13representation and diverse non-legislative stakeholder 
14representation:
15        (1)  One member appointed by the Speaker of the House of 
16    Representatives.
 
 
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1        (2) One member appointed by the President of the 
2    Senate.
3        (3)  One member appointed by the Minority Leader of the 
4    House of Representatives.
5        (4)  One member appointed by the Minority Leader of the 
6    Senate.
7        (5)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
8    representing a teachers union.
9        (6)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
10    representing the Chicago Teachers Union.
11        (7)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
12    representing social studies teachers.
13        (8)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
14    representing school boards.
15        (9)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
16    representing the media.
17        (10)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
18    representing the non-profit sector that promotes civic 
19    education as a core mission.
20        (11)  One member appointed by the head of an association 
21    representing the non-profit sector that promotes civic 
22    engagement among the general public.
23        (12) One member appointed by the president of an 
24    institution of higher education who teaches college or 
25    graduate-level government courses or facilitates a program 
26    dedicated to cultivating civic leaders.
 
 
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1        (13) One member appointed by the head of an association 
2    representing principals or district superintendents. 
3    (b)  The members of the Task Force shall serve without 
4compensation but shall be reimbursed for their reasonable and 
5necessary expenses from funds appropriated to the State Board 
6of Education for that purpose. The members of the Task Force 
7shall be reimbursed for their travel expenses from 
8appropriations to the State Board of Education available for 
9that purpose and subject to the rules of the appropriate travel 
10control board.
11    (c)  The members of the Task Force shall be considered 
12members with voting rights.  A quorum of the Task Force shall 
13consist of a simple majority of the members of the Task Force.  
14All actions and recommendations of the Task Force must be 
15approved by a simple majority vote of the members.
16    (d)  The Task Force shall meet initially at the call of the 
17State Superintendent of Education, shall elect one member as 
18chairperson at its initial meeting through a simple majority 
19vote of the Task Force, and shall thereafter meet at the call 
20of the chairperson.
21    (e)  The State Board of Education shall provide 
22administrative and other support to the Task Force.
23    (f)  The Task Force is charged with all of the following 
24tasks:
25        (1)  To analyze the current state of civic education in 
26    this State.
 
 
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1        (2)  To analyze current civic education laws in other 
2    jurisdictions, both mandated and permissive.
3        (3)  To identify best practices in civic education in 
4    other jurisdictions.
5        (4)  To make recommendations to the General Assembly 
6    focused on substantially increasing civic literacy and the 
7    capacity of youth to obtain the requisite knowledge, 
8    skills, and practices to be civically informed members of 
9    the public.
10        (5)  To make funding recommendations if the Task Force's 
11    recommendations to the General Assembly would require a 
12    fiscal commitment.
13    (g)  No later than December May 31, 2014, the Task Force 
14shall summarize its findings and recommendations in a report to 
15the General Assembly, filed as provided in Section 3.1 of the 
16General Assembly Organization Act.  Upon filing its report, the 
17Task Force is dissolved.
18    (h)  This Section is repealed on December May 31, 2015.

19(Source: P.A. 98-301, eff. 8-9-13; revised 10-4-13.)
 

20    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
21becoming law.".