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Bill	SCH CD-DRIV ED-PRACTIC DRIVING	Amends the School Code. Removes a provision that allows a school district to adopt a policy to permit proficiency examinations for the practice driving part of the driver education course at any time after the completion of 3 hours of practice driving under direct individual instruction.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	94th	SB 297	Illinois SB 297 (94th)	bill		enacted		3	30	2	2005-02-03	2005-08-10	openstates	ocd-bill/e5d43f6d-fa00-4d50-95a9-4610528106ad	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=297&GAID=8&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=15687&SessionID=50&GA=94	072b43d5684042c7d79a38eaea07e96ea166fe413d522cc391fb1daba5efd237	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 297 (94th) — SCH CD-DRIV ED-PRACTIC DRIVING

Amends the School Code. Removes a provision that allows a school district to adopt a policy to permit proficiency examinations for the practice driving part of the driver education course at any time after the completion of 3 hours of practice driving under direct individual instruction.

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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 58–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• John J. Cullerton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2005-02-03 Filed with Secretary by Sen. John J. Cullerton filing
• 2005-02-03 First Reading reading-1
• 2005-02-03 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2005-02-17 Assigned to Education referral-committee
• 2005-02-24 Postponed - Education
• 2005-02-28 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. John J. Cullerton amendment-introduction
• 2005-02-28 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2005-03-01 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Education
• 2005-03-01 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2005-03-02 Do Pass as Amended Education; 010-000-000 committee-passage
• 2005-03-02 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 3, 2005
• 2005-03-03 Second Reading reading-2
• 2005-03-03 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 8, 2005
• 2005-03-09 Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2005-03-09 Arrived in House introduction
• 2005-03-09 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2005-03-16 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Calvin L. Giles
• 2005-03-16 First Reading reading-1
• 2005-03-16 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2005-04-05 Assigned to Elementary & Secondary Education Committee referral-committee
• 2005-04-27 Do Pass / Short Debate Elementary & Secondary Education Committee; 019-000-000 committee-passage
• 2005-04-28 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2005-05-10 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2005-05-10 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2005-05-19 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-001 reading-3, passage
• 2005-05-19 Passed Both Houses
• 2005-06-17 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2005-08-10 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2005-08-10 Effective Date January 1, 2006
• 2005-08-10 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 94-0525 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e5d43f6d-fa00-4d50-95a9-4610528106ad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).