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Bill	SCH CD-CRIM HIST REC CK INFO	Amends the School Code. Provides that upon request of a school, school district, community college district, or private school, any information obtained by a school district pursuant to provisions concerning criminal history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database within the last 5 years must be made available to that school, school district, community college district, or private school.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	97th	HB 1240	Illinois HB 1240 (97th)	bill		enacted		3	38	2	2011-02-08	2011-08-04	openstates	ocd-bill/86e95671-a27f-438b-9a55-8cfe67c07c91	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1240&GAID=11&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=57211&SessionID=84&GA=97	1e19da186817db427d081b916a58191a23ba69829a0e718196d487511c8e0b21	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 1240 (97th) — SCH CD-CRIM HIST REC CK INFO

Amends the School Code. Provides that upon request of a school, school district, community college district, or private school, any information obtained by a school district pursuant to provisions concerning criminal history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database within the last 5 years must be made available to that school, school district, community college district, or private school.

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 — 55–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jack D. Franks — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-08 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Jack D. Franks filing
• 2011-02-08 First Reading reading-1
• 2011-02-08 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2011-02-14 Assigned to Elementary & Secondary Education Committee referral-committee
• 2011-02-15 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Jack D. Franks amendment-introduction
• 2011-02-15 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2011-02-16 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
• 2011-02-23 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Elementary & Secondary Education Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2011-02-23 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Elementary & Secondary Education Committee; 024-000-000 committee-passage
• 2011-02-23 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2011-02-24 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sandra M. Pihos
• 2011-02-24 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2011-02-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2011-03-01 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Patricia R. Bellock
• 2011-03-01 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Cynthia Soto
• 2011-03-01 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez
• 2011-03-01 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Maria Antonia Berrios
• 2011-03-01 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Edward J. Acevedo
• 2011-03-01 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Monique D. Davis
• 2011-03-01 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Daniel J. Burke
• 2011-03-01 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Karen A. Yarbrough
• 2011-03-01 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 112-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2011-03-02 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2011-03-02 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading March 3, 2011 reading-1
• 2011-03-03 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Susan Garrett
• 2011-03-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2011-03-09 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2011-05-04 Assigned to Education referral-committee
• 2011-05-10 Do Pass Education; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2011-05-10 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 11, 2011
• 2011-05-12 Second Reading reading-2
• 2011-05-12 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2011
• 2011-05-17 Third Reading - Passed; 055-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2011-05-17 Passed Both Houses
• 2011-06-15 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2011-08-04 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2011-08-04 Effective Date January 1, 2012
• 2011-08-04 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0248 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86e95671-a27f-438b-9a55-8cfe67c07c91. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).