republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/104th/sb-1231.md

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Bill	SCH ED-SPECIAL ED FACILITIES	Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Allows the school district to initiate an impartial due process hearing within 14 (rather than 5) days of any written parent request for an independent educational evaluation to show that its evaluation is appropriate. Requires an independent educational evaluation at public expense to be completed within 60 school days (rather than 30 days) of a parent's written request unless the school district initiates an impartial due process hearing or the parent or school district offers reasonable grounds to show that such time period should be extended. Provides that if the due process hearing decision indicates that the parent is entitled to an independent educational evaluation, it must be completed within 60 school days (rather than 30 days) of the decision unless the parent or the school district offers reasonable grounds to show that such period should be extended.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	104th	SB 1231	Illinois SB 1231 (104th)	bill		enacted	Maura Hirschauer Meg Loughran Cappel	4	31	5	2025-01-24	2025-08-15	openstates	ocd-bill/ec2e57ae-1864-4a8a-b332-e9976ce82ec8	https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=1231&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=159046&SessionID=114	cba0afde5c7f04dafc8c6fa54f8e7a92ce37d51db5c17e9aeffb8c03993ccce0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 1231 (104th) — SCH ED-SPECIAL ED FACILITIES

Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Allows the school district to initiate an impartial due process hearing within 14 (rather than 5) days of any written parent request for an independent educational evaluation to show that its evaluation is appropriate. Requires an independent educational evaluation at public expense to be completed within 60 school days (rather than 30 days) of a parent's written request unless the school district initiates an impartial due process hearing or the parent or school district offers reasonable grounds to show that such time period should be extended. Provides that if the due process hearing decision indicates that the parent is entitled to an independent educational evaluation, it must be completed within 60 school days (rather than 30 days) of the decision unless the parent or the school district offers reasonable grounds to show that such period should be extended.

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 — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 56–0 (pass) · upper
• Education, Amendment 1 — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Education Policy — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 115–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maura Hirschauer — primary (person)
• Meg Loughran Cappel — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-24 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel filing
• 2025-01-24 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-01-24 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-02-04 Assigned to Education referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Do Pass Education; 013-000-000
• 2025-02-19 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 20, 2025 reading-2
• 2025-03-05 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel amendment-introduction
• 2025-03-05 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-03-12 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Education
• 2025-03-18 Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-03-18 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 19, 2025
• 2025-03-19 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommend Do Adopt Education; 014-000-000
• 2025-04-03 Recalled to Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-03 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted; Loughran-Cappel amendment-passage
• 2025-04-03 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
• 2025-04-09 Third Reading - Passed; 056-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09 Arrived in House introduction
• 2025-04-14 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Maura Hirschauer
• 2025-04-17 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-17 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-04-17 Assigned to Education Policy Committee referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 Do Pass / Short Debate Education Policy Committee; 012-000-000
• 2025-04-30 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-05-13 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-05-13 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2025-05-22 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 115-000-000 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 January 1, 2026
• 2025-08-15 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0368 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ec2e57ae-1864-4a8a-b332-e9976ce82ec8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).