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Bill	SCH CD-CHICAGO-YOUTH PROGRAM	Amends the School Code. Allows the Chicago Board of Education to develop a plan for implementing a program that seeks to establish common bonds between youth of various backgrounds and ethnicities, which may be similar to that of the Challenge Day organization.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	97th	HB 1473	Illinois HB 1473 (97th)	bill		enacted		3	33	2	2011-02-10	2012-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/24f1e016-6017-414c-a779-28eb6dbc5d5c	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1473&GAID=11&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=58235&SessionID=84&GA=97	7d2a713692c14c2208661cf9cfa5846002b45795d8d6f4df433e3eb3c6fc2df2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 1473 (97th) — SCH CD-CHICAGO-YOUTH PROGRAM

Amends the School Code. Allows the Chicago Board of Education to develop a plan for implementing a program that seeks to establish common bonds between youth of various backgrounds and ethnicities, which may be similar to that of the Challenge Day organization.

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 — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 109–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mary E. Flowers — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-10 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Mary E. Flowers filing
• 2011-02-14 First Reading reading-1
• 2011-02-14 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2011-02-15 Assigned to Elementary & Secondary Education Committee referral-committee
• 2011-03-17 Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2012-01-30 Assigned to Elementary & Secondary Education Committee referral-committee
• 2012-03-09 Do Pass / Short Debate Elementary & Secondary Education Committee; 023-000-000 committee-passage
• 2012-03-09 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2012-03-09 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
• 2012-03-09 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Al Riley
• 2012-03-09 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Monique D. Davis
• 2012-03-09 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. La Shawn K. Ford
• 2012-03-21 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2012-03-21 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2012-03-22 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 109-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2012-03-22 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2012-03-22 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading March 23, 2012 reading-1
• 2012-03-28 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. William Delgado
• 2012-03-29 First Reading reading-1
• 2012-03-29 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 Assigned to Education referral-committee
• 2012-04-18 Postponed - Education
• 2012-04-25 Do Pass Education; 010-000-000 committee-passage
• 2012-04-25 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 26, 2012
• 2012-05-08 Second Reading reading-2
• 2012-05-08 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 9, 2012
• 2012-05-15 Third Reading - Passed; 052-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2012-05-15 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
• 2012-05-15 Passed Both Houses
• 2012-06-13 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2012-08-08 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2012-08-08 Effective Date January 1, 2013
• 2012-08-08 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0909 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/24f1e016-6017-414c-a779-28eb6dbc5d5c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).