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Bill	SCH CD-HIGH SCHOOL CREDITS	Amends the School Code. Allows a student enrolled in grade 7 or 8 to enroll in a required high school course if the course is offered by the high school that the student would attend and the student participates in the course where the student attends school as long as the student passes the end of course exam given at the high school granting the credit for the same course, demonstrating proficiency at the high school level (course is taught by a teacher who holds a professional educator license issued under Article 21B of this Code and endorsed for the grade level and content area of the course).	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	104th	HB 3039	Illinois HB 3039 (104th)	bill		enacted	Janet Yang Rohr Laura Ellman	5	39	5	2025-02-06	2025-08-15	openstates	ocd-bill/90f6842f-bb35-4fa2-b5ef-34f86a40045d	https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=3039&GAID=18&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=161316&SessionID=114	96fe015520281017f9de96682839f0025b8927d2332d08874597c8f41d2eb4ee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 3039 (104th) — SCH CD-HIGH SCHOOL CREDITS

Amends the School Code. Allows a student enrolled in grade 7 or 8 to enroll in a required high school course if the course is offered by the high school that the student would attend and the student participates in the course where the student attends school as long as the student passes the end of course exam given at the high school granting the credit for the same course, demonstrating proficiency at the high school level (course is taught by a teacher who holds a professional educator license issued under Article 21B of this Code and endorsed for the grade level and content area of the course).

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. House Amendment 002 (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Elem Sec Ed: Adm., Lic. & Charter, Amendment 2 — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Education — 13–1 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 106–0 (pass) · lower
• Elem Sec Ed: Adm., Lic. & Charter — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 55–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Janet Yang Rohr — primary (person)
• Laura Ellman — primary (person)
• Julie A. Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Tracy Katz Muhl — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-06 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Janet Yang Rohr filing
• 2025-02-06 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-02-06 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-03-04 Assigned to Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter Schools referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Janet Yang Rohr amendment-introduction
• 2025-03-11 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-03-12 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter Schools
• 2025-03-12 Do Pass / Short Debate Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter Schools; 009-000-000
• 2025-03-12 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Tabled amendment-failure
• 2025-03-13 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-03-25 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-03-25 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2025-04-07 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Janet Yang Rohr amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-07 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-04-08 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter Schools
• 2025-04-09 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter Schools; 008-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-10 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Tracy Katz Muhl
• 2025-04-10 Recalled to Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-04-10 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2025-04-10 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2025-04-10 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 106-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-14 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2025-04-14 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-14 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Ram Villivalam
• 2025-04-14 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-14 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-04-29 Assigned to Education referral-committee
• 2025-05-02 Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Laura Ellman
• 2025-05-07 Do Pass Education; 013-001-000
• 2025-05-07 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 8, 2025 reading-2
• 2025-05-08 Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-05-08 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2025
• 2025-05-21 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison
• 2025-05-22 Third Reading - Passed; 055-002-000 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 January 1, 2026
• 2025-08-15 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0267 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/90f6842f-bb35-4fa2-b5ef-34f86a40045d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).