republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/103rd/sb-2987.md

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Bill	SCH CD-BOARD MEMBER TRAINING	Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. Provides that, in addition to required professional development leadership training, every voting member of a school board of a school district elected or appointed for a term beginning after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall complete a minimum of 3 hours of training every 2 years on continuous improvement planning and leveraging instruction, funding, and support to improve student outcomes. Provides that this training must be completed within one year after the effective date of the amendatory Act or the first year of a school board member's term and must be completed at least every 2 years thereafter. Provides that, subject to the requirements of the Open Meetings Act, school board members may take this training together. Provides that the training may be provided by an association established under the Code for the purpose of training school board members or by other qualified providers approved by the State Board of Education, in consultation with an association so established.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	103rd	SB 2987	Illinois SB 2987 (103rd)	bill		enacted	Amy Elik Meg Loughran Cappel	4	37	5	2024-01-31	2024-08-02	openstates	ocd-bill/b9a7b738-bdb7-4c36-b082-c85aa2611657	https://beta.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=2987&GAID=17&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=152103&SessionID=112	42867c1feb773d1f2a956eb3952d9e625e95104518dd8f82432aeeff78c6476e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 2987 (103rd) — SCH CD-BOARD MEMBER TRAINING

Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. Provides that, in addition to required professional development leadership training, every voting member of a school board of a school district elected or appointed for a term beginning after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall complete a minimum of 3 hours of training every 2 years on continuous improvement planning and leveraging instruction, funding, and support to improve student outcomes. Provides that this training must be completed within one year after the effective date of the amendatory Act or the first year of a school board member's term and must be completed at least every 2 years thereafter. Provides that, subject to the requirements of the Open Meetings Act, school board members may take this training together. Provides that the training may be provided by an association established under the Code for the purpose of training school board members or by other qualified providers approved by the State Board of Education, in consultation with an association so established.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Amendment 001 (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Education — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Education — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 105–6 (pass) · lower
• Elem Sec Ed: Adm., Lic. & Charter — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 58–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Amy Elik — primary (person)
• Meg Loughran Cappel — primary (person)
• Brandun Schweizer — cosponsor (person)
• Diane Blair-Sherlock — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer Sanalitro — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
• Laura M. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Martin McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
• Mary Edly-Allen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2024-01-31 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel filing
• 2024-01-31 First Reading reading-1
• 2024-01-31 Referred to Assignments
• 2024-02-06 Assigned to Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel amendment-introduction
• 2024-02-20 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
• 2024-02-21 Postponed - Education
• 2024-02-28 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Education
• 2024-03-05 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2024-03-06 Do Pass as Amended Education; 011-000-000
• 2024-03-06 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 7, 2024 reading-2
• 2024-03-14 Second Reading reading-2
• 2024-03-14 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 20, 2024
• 2024-04-10 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading **
• 2024-04-10 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
• 2024-04-11 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
• 2024-04-12 Third Reading - Passed; 058-001-000 passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-12 Arrived in House introduction
• 2024-04-12 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Amy Elik
• 2024-04-15 First Reading reading-1
• 2024-04-15 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2024-04-24 Assigned to Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter Schools referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 Do Pass / Short Debate Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter Schools; 008-000-000
• 2024-05-02 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2024-05-09 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jennifer Sanalitro
• 2024-05-09 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Diane Blair-Sherlock
• 2024-05-09 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin Schmidt
• 2024-05-09 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Brandun Schweizer
• 2024-05-09 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Martin McLaughlin
• 2024-05-13 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2024-05-13 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2024-05-16 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 105-006-000 passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-16 Passed Both Houses
• 2024-06-14 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-08-02 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2024-08-02 Effective Date June 1, 2025
• 2024-08-02 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0771 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b9a7b738-bdb7-4c36-b082-c85aa2611657. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).