Amends the School Code. Provides that a principal endorsement shall be affixed to a Professional Educator License of any holder who, in addition to other requirements in the Code, has at least 4 total years of teaching or 4 total years of working in the capacity of school support personnel in a school under the supervision of the Illinois Department of Corrections (or in combination with other permitted schools).
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Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that law enforcement officers, in an effort to assist the Department of Children and Family Services in child protective investigations in its response to reports of child abuse or neglect, must, upon request of a child protection investigator, accompany the child protection investigator. Provides that it is the responsibility of the accompanying officer to accompany the child protection investigator to any other police jurisdiction that is outside the accompanying officer's primary jurisdiction. Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Counties Code, and the Illinois Municipal Code making conforming changes.
Amends the Design-Build Procurement Act. Provides that the Act is repealed on July 1, 2021 (currently, July 1, 2019). Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Jordan Goldstein.
Congratulates Gallatin County High School on winning the Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering State Championship for the third straight year.
Congratulates Artie McBride on her retirement as the Local Office Administrator in Pulaski County.
Congratulates Sheriff Robert Crow on his 29 years with the DARE program.
Congratulates the Goreville High School boys basketball team, the Blackcats, on their historic 2017-2018 season.
Mourns the death of Richard Odum Hart of Benton.
Congratulates Lucinda Schmitt on her retirement as Superintendent of Gallatin County Schools.