HB4657 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB4657

Introduced , by Rep. Natalie A. Manley

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

105 ILCS 5/27-23.11 new

Amends the School Code. Creates the Emotional Intelligence Education Task Force to develop curriculum guidelines on emotional intelligence; sets forth provisions concerning its membership, duties, administration, and dissolution. Provides that, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, every public elementary school and high school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying emotional intelligence. Requires this unit of instruction to include teaching how to recognize, direct, and positively express emotions. Permits a school board to use the Task Force's guidelines in developing this unit of instruction. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning education.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section 27-23.11 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/27-23.11 new)

Sec. 27-23.11. Emotional intelligence education.

(a) The Emotional Intelligence Education Task Force is created to develop curriculum guidelines on emotional intelligence. The Task Force shall consist of the State Superintendent of Education or his or her designee and all of the following members, appointed by the State Superintendent:

(1) A representative of a school district organized under Article 34 of this Code.

(2) A representative of a statewide organization representing school boards.

(3) A representative of a statewide organization representing individuals holding professional educator licenses with school support personnel endorsements under Article 21B of this Code, including school social workers, school psychologists, and school nurses.

(4) A representative of a statewide organization representing children's mental health experts.

(5) A representative of a statewide organization representing school principals.

(6) Representatives of other appropriate State agencies, as determined by the State Superintendent.

Members appointed by the State Superintendent shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for their reasonable and necessary expenses from funds appropriated to the State Board of Education for that purpose, including travel, subject to the rules of the appropriate travel control board. The Task Force shall meet at the call of the State Superintendent. The State Board of Education shall provide administrative and other support to the Task Force.

The Task Force shall develop age-appropriate, emotional intelligence curriculum guidelines for elementary schools and high schools. The guidelines shall, at a minimum, include teaching how to recognize, direct, and positively express emotions. The Task Force shall complete the guidelines on or before January 1, 2019. Upon completion of the guidelines the Task Force is dissolved.

(b) Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, every public elementary school and high school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying emotional intelligence. At a minimum, this unit of instruction must include teaching how to recognize, direct, and positively express emotions. In developing this unit of instruction, a school board may use the guidelines developed by the Emotional Intelligence Education Task Force under subsection (a) of this Section.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.