SCH CD-REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENT House SponsorsRep. Linda Chapa LaVia 1/10/2017HouseSession Sine Die 105 ILCS 5/3-1from Ch. 122, par. 3-1 Amends the Regional Superintendent of Schools Article of the School Code. Makes changes concerning the qualifications of a regional superintendent of schools, including requiring his or her master's degree to be in education, removing the licensure requirement if he or she will have on staff a qualified assistant regional superintendent, allowing the teaching experience to include any grade level, kindergarten through the university undergraduate level, and requiring employment with the regional office of education for which he or she is seeking to serve as regional superintendent for a minimum of 5 years in an administrative capacity. Effective immediately.House Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the contents of the bill with the following changes. Removes the requirement that a regional superintendent must have earned at least 20 semester hours of credit in professional education at the graduate level. Requires a regional superintendent to have had experience in teaching through the university graduate (instead of undergraduate) level. Requires a regional superintendent (i) to hold a valid all grade supervisory license, a valid State limited supervisory license, a valid state life supervisory license, or a valid administrative license or (ii) to have on staff an assistant regional superintendent of schools, as signed by an affidavit filed with the State Board of Education, and to have been employed with the regional office of education for a minimum of 5 years in an administrative capacity (instead of requiring him or her (i) to hold a valid all grade supervisory license, a valid State limited supervisory license, a valid state life supervisory license, or a valid administrative license or to have on staff an assistant regional superintendent of schools and (ii) to have been employed with the regional office of education for a minimum of 5 years in an administrative capacity). Effective immediately. 2/8/2016HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia 2/10/2016HouseFirst Reading 2/10/2016HouseReferred to Rules Committee 3/23/2016HouseAssigned to Elementary & Secondary Education: Licensing Oversight 3/24/2016HouseHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia 3/24/2016HouseHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee 4/4/2016HouseHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Elementary & Secondary Education: Licensing Oversight 4/5/2016HouseHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Elementary & Secondary Education: Licensing Oversight; by Voice Vote 4/5/2016HouseDo Pass as Amended / Short Debate Elementary & Secondary Education: Licensing Oversight; 004-000-000 4/5/2016HousePlaced on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate 4/15/2016HouseSecond Reading - Short Debate 4/15/2016HouseHeld on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate 4/22/2016HouseRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee 1/10/2017HouseSession Sine Die