Education

House Bill 119 appropriates funds from the state's General Revenue Fund to Eastern Illinois University. Specifically, it allocates $2 to cover the university's general operating expenses for fiscal year 2026. This bill is set to take effect on July 1, 2025.

HB 88 appropriates two dollars from the General Revenue Fund to Chicago State University. This funding is designated for the university's ordinary and contingent expenses during Fiscal Year 2026. The bill is set to become effective on July 1, 2025.

Amends the School Code. Includes game officials in provisions requiring applicants for employment with a school district to undergo a fingerprint-based criminal history records check and check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database.

HB 84 appropriates $2 from the state's General Revenue Fund to the Board of Higher Education. This funding is designated for the Board's ordinary and contingent expenses for fiscal year 2026, becoming effective on July 1, 2025.

HB 171 proposes to appropriate $2 from the state's General Revenue Fund to Northern Illinois University (NIU). This funding is designated to cover NIU's ordinary and contingent expenses for Fiscal Year 2026. The bill is set to take effect on July 1, 2025.

Urges the implementation of interventions to support vaccine uptake and reduce disparities in vaccine coverage among children. Urges the Illinois Department of Health, the Illinois State Board of Education, and the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services to work with pediatricians, clinicians, families, and other stakeholders to ensure infants and children are vaccinated on time and students begin school fully vaccinated. Urges the Illinois Department of Health, the Illinois State Board of Education, and the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services to continue to invest in immunization initiatives and infrastructure to ensure timely reporting of vaccine coverage to ensure children are protected from vaccine-preventable illness in public and private schools, child care facilities, and pre-kindergarten programs and beyond.

House Bill 133 proposes to appropriate $2 from the state's General Revenue Fund. This funding is specifically designated for Governors State University. The appropriation is intended to cover the university's ordinary and contingent expenses for Fiscal Year 2026. If enacted, the bill would become effective on July 1, 2025.

HB 153 is a legislative bill that appropriates a specific amount of money from the state's General Revenue Fund. It allocates $2 to Illinois State University to cover its ordinary and contingent expenses for Fiscal Year 2026. This funding will become effective starting July 1, 2025.

Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to Northeastern Illinois University for its FY26 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2025.

Creates the Public University Direct Admission Program Act. Provides that, beginning with the 2027-2028 academic year, the Board of Higher Education, in collaboration with the Illinois Community College Board, the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, and the State Board of Education, shall establish and administer a direct admission program. Requires each public university in the direct admission program to identify and provide its grade point average standards for general admission for first time admission and for transfer students to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission by March 1 of each year. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2026 and each July 1 thereafter, the Illinois Student Assistance Commission shall use data collected from school districts to determine which students meet the standards for general admission and provide the data to the Board of Higher Education. Provides that, beginning with the 2027-2028 academic year, the Board of Higher Education, in collaboration with the Illinois Student Assistance Commission and the State Board of Education, shall develop, in consultation with the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a preselection outreach campaign to encourage qualifying State high school juniors and seniors to apply to the University of Illinois at Chicago or the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Requires the Board of Higher Education to submit a report on the direct admission program and the preselection outreach campaign to the Governor and General Assembly by August 1, 2029 and each August 1 thereafter. Amends the School Code. Requires a school board to provide access to high school student directory information and each student's email address and grade point average to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, and each public institution of higher education for the purpose of informing students of educational and career opportunities.