Illinois HB5552 Amends School Code - Education Licensure and Charter Schools
Summary
Illinois Governor signed HB5552 into law on April 9, 2026. The bill amends the School Code across multiple areas including State Board of Education functions, teacher supply and demand reporting, educator preparation and licensure, qualifications and testing, evaluation templates, charter school renewals, and provisions for students who are parents or victims of domestic or sexual violence. The bill also renames various funds and terms, repeals the Community Service Education Act, and makes conforming changes across multiple Acts.
What changed
HB5552 makes comprehensive amendments to the Illinois School Code affecting educator licensure, qualifications, testing exemptions, performance evaluations, charter school renewals, and student support provisions. The bill renames the Teacher Certificate Fee Revolving Fund to Teacher Licensure Fee Revolving Fund and updates terminology including 'foreign countries' to 'countries other than the United States' and 'ethnic school' to 'community-based heritage language school'. It also repeals the Community Service Education Act and makes conforming changes across multiple Acts.
Illinois schools, educators, and charter schools should prepare for updated compliance requirements under the amended School Code. Schools should review changes to educator licensure and testing requirements, charter renewal processes, and student parent/expectant parent provisions. School districts should update financial account references and terminology to align with the renamed funds and revised definitions.
What to do next
- Review HB5552 provisions for compliance with updated School Code requirements
- Update terminology and references to renamed funds and terms
- Monitor for Illinois State Board of Education guidance on implementation
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ChangeBridge / Illinois / HB5552 Signed by Governor HB5552 House Bill Signed by Governor 2026-04-09
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Amends the School Code. Makes changes to provisions regarding departments and functions of the State Board of Education, the teacher supply and demand report, waivers and modifications of mandates and administrative rules, audits of a school district's accounts, statements of affairs, the Illinois Purchased Care Review Board, evidence-based funding, the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board, qualifications of educators, provisional educator endorsements on Educator Licenses with Stipulations, educator testing exemptions, the Teacher Performance Assessment Advisory Committee, teacher and principal model evaluation templates, children and students who are parents, expectant parents, or victims of domestic or sexual violence, the advisory committee under the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act, and charter school renewals. Changes the following terms: "Teacher Certificate Fee Revolving Fund" to "Teacher Licensure Fee Revolving Fund"; "foreign countries" to "countries other than the United States"; "ethnic school" to "community-based heritage language school"; "foreign language" to "world language"; and "epinephrine injector" to "epinephrine delivery system". Repeals the Community Service Education Act, and makes changes in the Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Act. Makes other and conforming changes in the School Code, the State Finance Act, and various Acts relating to the governance of public universities. Effective immediately.
Bill Details
State Illinois
Session 104th General Assembly
Chamber House
Committee Assignments
Official Source www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum...
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Sponsors
Laura Faver Dias (Rep - D) David Koehler (Sen - D)
Action History
2026-04-10 S Referred to Assignments 2026-04-10 S First Reading 2026-04-10 S Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. David Koehler 2026-04-10 S Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading 2026-04-10 S Arrive in Senate 2026-04-09 H Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 071-034-000 2026-04-07 H Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate 2026-04-07 H Second Reading - Short Debate 2026-03-19 H Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate 2026-03-19 H Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Education Policy Committee; 009-004-000 2026-03-19 H House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Education Policy Committee; by Voice Vote 2026-03-18 H House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Education Policy Committee 2026-03-06 H House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee 2026-03-06 H House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Laura Faver Dias 2026-03-04 H Assigned to Education Policy Committee 2026-02-13 H Referred to Rules Committee 2026-02-13 H First Reading 2026-02-06 H Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Laura Faver Dias
Committee Referrals
2026-02-13 H Rules 2026-03-04 H Education Policy 2026-03-06 H Rules 2026-03-18 H Education Policy 2026-04-10 S Assignments
Amendments
2026-03-06 House Amendment 001
Bill Text Versions
2026-02-06 Introduced 2026-04-07 Engrossed Legislative data powered by LegiScan (CC BY 4.0)
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