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Bill	SCH CD-SPEC ED-RESIDENT DIST	Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that for a child residing in a long-term, acute care facility serving a majority of patients who are (i) minor children and (ii) Medicaid-eligible in Harvey School District 152, if a parent or guardian moves out of the State after the child is placed in such a facility, that parent or guardian shall enroll the child in a school in the other state to initiate reimbursement to Illinois. With respect to determining the location of a student's parent or guardian, provides that the information submitted to the State Superintendent of Education must include an affidavit from that school district's superintendent or the facility's director attesting that the location of the parent or guardian is unknown and at least 3 satisfactory attempts (rather than 4 items of documentary evidence that a minimum of 4 separate attempts) were made on 3 separate days to locate the parent or guardian and no response was received from the parent or guardian within 14 days after such satisfactory attempts. Provides that for a child residing in a long-term, acute care facility serving a majority of patients who are (i) minor children and (ii) Medicaid-eligible in Harvey School District 152, the following apply: (1) if the child is not currently enrolled in a school district or if the resident school district is unknown, the appropriate resident school district must be identified and the child must be enrolled in that district prior to the placement of the child, except in emergency situations; (2) for a child with an out-of-state resident district whose out-of-state resident district has refused to enroll the child in the district, despite being contacted by both the nonpublic school within the applicable facility and the State Board of Education, the resident district shall be the student's most recent resident district in Illinois and that resident district shall be the responsible payee; and (3) the equivalent of each applicable child's tuition receipts for the 2025-2026 school year shall be paid to the resident district. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	104th	HB 1861	Illinois HB 1861 (104th)	bill		enacted	Meg Loughran Cappel William "Will" Davis	4	35	5	2025-01-29	2025-08-15	openstates	ocd-bill/29fea18c-5971-4d5b-8cf4-ef2643601147	https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=1861&GAID=18&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=159431&SessionID=114	026ea04663d58e5883619cca7801fcdcb25110a05255d1ff9294f28ef0d89482	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 1861 (104th) — SCH CD-SPEC ED-RESIDENT DIST

Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that for a child residing in a long-term, acute care facility serving a majority of patients who are (i) minor children and (ii) Medicaid-eligible in Harvey School District 152, if a parent or guardian moves out of the State after the child is placed in such a facility, that parent or guardian shall enroll the child in a school in the other state to initiate reimbursement to Illinois. With respect to determining the location of a student's parent or guardian, provides that the information submitted to the State Superintendent of Education must include an affidavit from that school district's superintendent or the facility's director attesting that the location of the parent or guardian is unknown and at least 3 satisfactory attempts (rather than 4 items of documentary evidence that a minimum of 4 separate attempts) were made on 3 separate days to locate the parent or guardian and no response was received from the parent or guardian within 14 days after such satisfactory attempts. Provides that for a child residing in a long-term, acute care facility serving a majority of patients who are (i) minor children and (ii) Medicaid-eligible in Harvey School District 152, the following apply: (1) if the child is not currently enrolled in a school district or if the resident school district is unknown, the appropriate resident school district must be identified and the child must be enrolled in that district prior to the placement of the child, except in emergency situations; (2) for a child with an out-of-state resident district whose out-of-state resident district has refused to enroll the child in the district, despite being contacted by both the nonpublic school within the applicable facility and the State Board of Education, the resident district shall be the student's most recent resident district in Illinois and that resident district shall be the responsible payee; and (3) the equivalent of each applicable child's tuition receipts for the 2025-2026 school year shall be paid to the resident district. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

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. House Amendment 001 (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Education — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Approp-Elementary & Secondary Educ, Amendment 1 — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Approp-Elementary & Secondary Educ — 6–3 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 58–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Meg Loughran Cappel — primary (person)
• William "Will" Davis — primary (person)
• Camille Y. Lilly — cosponsor (person)
• Diane Blair-Sherlock — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Mussman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-29 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. William "Will" Davis filing
• 2025-01-29 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-01-29 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-02-25 Assigned to Appropriations-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 Do Pass / Short Debate Appropriations-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee; 006-003-000
• 2025-03-12 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-03-13 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michelle Mussman
• 2025-03-13 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Diane Blair-Sherlock
• 2025-03-19 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. William "Will" Davis amendment-introduction
• 2025-03-19 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-03-20 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Appropriations-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
• 2025-03-25 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Appropriations-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee; 006-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-26 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-03-26 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-04-08 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2025-04-08 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2025-04-08 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-08 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly
• 2025-04-09 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2025-04-09 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 10, 2025 reading-1
• 2025-04-10 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel
• 2025-04-10 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-10 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-04-23 Assigned to Education referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 Do Pass Education; 014-000-000
• 2025-04-30 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 1, 2025 reading-2
• 2025-05-07 Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-05-07 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 8, 2025
• 2025-05-20 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading **
• 2025-05-22 Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-22 Passed Both Houses
• 2025-06-20 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-08-15 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2025-08-15 Effective Date August 15, 2025
• 2025-08-15 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0202 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/29fea18c-5971-4d5b-8cf4-ef2643601147. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).