Rep. Camille Y. Lilly
Filed: 3/18/2013
 
 


 




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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3236 




2 AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3236 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:


4 "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section 
522-75 as follows:

6 (105 ILCS 5/22-75)
7 Sec. 22-75. The Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force. 
8 (a) There is hereby created the Eradicate Domestic Violence 
9Task Force. The Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force shall 
10develop a statewide effective and feasible prevention course 
11for high school students designed to prevent interpersonal, 
12adolescent violence based on the Step Back Program for boys and 
13girls. The Clerk of the Circuit Court in the First Judicial 
14District shall provide administrative staff and support to the 
15task force.
16 (b) The Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force shall do the 
 
 
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1following:
2  (1) Conduct meetings to evaluate the effectiveness and 
3 feasibility of statewide implementation of the curricula 
4 of the Step Back Program at Oak Park and River Forest High 
5 School, located in Cook County, Illinois, for the 
6 prevention of domestic violence.
7  (2) Invite the testimony of and confer with experts on 
8 relevant topics as needed.
9  (3) Propose content for integration into school 
10 curricula aimed at preventing domestic violence.
11  (4) Propose a method of training facilitators on the 
12 school curricula aimed at preventing domestic violence.
13  (5) Propose partnerships with anti-violence agencies 
14 to assist with the facilitator roles and the nature of the 
15 partnerships.
16  (6) Evaluate the approximate cost per school or school 
17 district to implement and maintain school curricula aimed 
18 at preventing domestic violence.
19  (7) Propose a funding source or sources to support 
20 school curricula aimed at preventing domestic violence and 
21 agencies that provide training to the facilitators, such as 
22 a fee to be charged in domestic violence, sexual assault, 
23 and related cases to be collected by the clerk of the court 
24 for deposit into a special fund in the State treasury and 
25 to be used to fund a proposed eradicate domestic violence 
26 program in the schools of this State.
 
 
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1  (8) Propose an evaluation structure to ensure that the 
2 school curricula aimed at preventing domestic violence is 
3 effectively taught by trained facilitators.
4  (9) Propose a method of evaluation for the purpose of 
5 modifying the content of the curriculum over time, 
6 including whether studies of the program should be 
7 conducted by the University of Illinois' Interpersonal 
8 Violence Prevention Information Center.
9  (10) Recommend legislation developed by the task 
10 force, such as amending Sections 27-5 through 27-13.3 and 
11 27-23.4 of this Code, and legislation to create a fee to be 
12 charged in domestic violence, sexual assault, and related 
13 cases to be collected by the clerk of court for deposit 
14 into a special fund in the State treasury and to be used to 
15 fund a proposed eradicate domestic violence program in the 
16 schools of this State.
17  (11) Produce a report of the task force's findings on 
18 best practices and policies, which shall include a plan 
19 with a phased and prioritized implementation timetable for 
20 implementation of school curricula aimed at preventing 
21 domestic violence in schools. The task force shall submit a 
22 report to the General Assembly on or before April 1, 2014 
23 2013 on its findings, recommendations, and implementation 
24 plan. Any task force reports must be published on the State 
25 Board of Education's Internet website on the date the 
26 report is delivered to the General Assembly.
 
 
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1 (c) The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the 
2House of Representatives shall each appoint one co-chairperson 
3of the Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force. The Minority 
4Leader of the Senate and the Minority Leader of the House of 
5Representatives shall each appoint one member to the task 
6force. In addition, the task force shall be comprised of the 
7following members appointed by the State Board of Education and 
8shall be representative of the geographic, racial, and ethnic 
9diversity of this State:
10  (1) Four representatives involved with a program for 
11 high school students at a high school that is located in a 
12 municipality with a population of 2,000,000 or more and the 
13 program is a daily, 6-week to 9-week, 45-session, 
14 gender-specific, primary prevention course designed to 
15 raise awareness of topics such as dating and domestic 
16 violence, any systematic conduct that causes measurable 
17 physical harm or emotional distress, sexual assault, 
18 digital abuse, self-defense, and suicide.
19  (2) A representative of an interpersonal violence 
20 prevention program within a State university.
21  (3) A representative of a statewide nonprofit, 
22 nongovernmental, domestic violence organization.
23  (4) A representative of a different nonprofit, 
24 nongovernmental domestic violence organization that is 
25 located in a municipality with a population of 2,000,000 or 
26 more.
 
 
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1  (5) A representative of a statewide nonprofit, 
2 nongovernmental, sexual assault organization.
3  (6) A representative of a different nonprofit, 
4 nongovernmental, sexual assault organization based in a 
5 county with a population of 3,000,000 or more.
6  (7) The State Superintendent of Education or his or her 
7 designee.
8  (8) The Chief Executive Officer of City of Chicago 
9 School District 299 or his or her designee or the President 
10 of the Chicago Board of Education or his or her designee.
11  (9) A representative of the Department of Human 
12 Services.
13  (10) A representative of a statewide, nonprofit 
14 professional organization representing law enforcement 
15 executives.
16  (11) A representative of the Chicago Police 
17 Department, Youth Services Division.
18  (12) The Clerk of the Circuit Court in the First 
19 Judicial District or his or her designee.
20  (13) A representative of a statewide professional 
21 teachers organization.
22  (14) A representative of a different statewide 
23 professional teachers organization.
24  (15) A representative of a professional teachers 
25 organization in a city having a population exceeding 
26 500,000.
 
 
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1  (16) A representative of an organization representing 
2 principals.
3  (17) A representative of an organization representing 
4 school administrators.
5  (18) A representative of an organization representing 
6 school boards.
7  (19) A representative of an organization representing 
8 school business officials.
9  (20) A representative of an organization representing 
10 large unit school districts. 
11 (d) The following underlying purposes should be liberally 
12construed by the task force convened under this Section:
13  (1) Recognize that, according to the Centers for 
14 Disease Control and Prevention, National Intimate Partner 
15 and Sexual Violence Survey, December 2010 Summary Report, 
16 on average 24 people per minute are victims of rape, 
17 physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in 
18 the United States, equaling more than 12 million women and 
19 men.
20  (2) Recognize that abused children and children 
21 exposed to domestic violence in their homes may have short 
22 and long-term physical, emotional, and learning problems, 
23 including increased aggression, decreased responsiveness 
24 to adults, failure to thrive, posttraumatic stress 
25 disorder, depression, anxiety, hypervigilance and 
26 hyperactivity, eating and sleeping problems, and 
 
 
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1 developmental delays, according to the Journal of 
2 Interpersonal Violence and the Futures Without Violence 
3 organization.
4  (3) Recognize that the Illinois Violence Prevention 
5 Authority has found that children exposed to violence in 
6 the media may become numb to the horror of violence, may 
7 gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems, may 
8 imitate the violence they see, and may identify with 
9 certain characters, victims, or victimizers.
10  (4) Recognize that crimes and the incarceration of 
11 youth are often associated with a history of child abuse 
12 and exposure to domestic violence, according to Futures 
13 Without Violence.
14  (5) Recognize that the cost of prosecuting crime in 
15 this State is unnecessarily high due to a lack of 
16 prevention programs designed to eradicate domestic 
17 violence.
18  (6) Recognize that sexual violence, stalking, and 
19 intimate partner violence are serious and widespread 
20 public health problems for children and adults in this 
21 State.
22  (7) Recognize that intervention programs aimed at 
23 preventing domestic violence may yield better results than 
24 programs aimed at treating the victims of domestic 
25 violence, because treatment programs may reduce the 
26 likelihood that a particular woman will be re-victimized, 
 
 
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1 but might not otherwise reduce the overall amount of 
2 domestic violence.
3  (8) Recognize that uniform, effective, feasible, and 
4 widespread prevention of sexual violence and intimate 
5 partner violence is a high priority in this State.
6  (9) Recognize that the Step Back Program at Oak Park 
7 and River Forest High School in Cook County, Illinois, is a 
8 daily, 6 to 9 week, 45-session, gender-specific, primary 
9 prevention course for high school students designed to 
10 raise awareness of topics, including dating and domestic 
11 violence, bullying and harassment, sexual assault, digital 
12 abuse, self-defense, and suicide. The Step Back Program is 
13 co-facilitated by the high school and a nonprofit, 
14 nongovernmental domestic violence prevention specialist 
15 and service provider.
16  (10) Develop a statewide effective prevention course 
17 for high school students based on the Step Back Program for 
18 boys and girls designed to prevent interpersonal, 
19 adolescent violence.
20 (e) Members of the Eradicate Domestic Violence Task Force 
21shall receive no compensation for their participation, but may 
22be reimbursed by the State Board of Education for expenses in 
23connection with their participation, including travel, if 
24funds are available.
25 (f) Nothing in this Section or in the prevention course is 
26intended to infringe upon any right to exercise free expression 
 
 
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1or the free exercise of religion or religiously based views 
2protected under the First Amendment to the United States 
3Constitution or under Section 3 or 4 of Article 1 of the 
4Illinois Constitution. 

5(Source: P.A. 97-1037, eff. 8-20-12.)


6 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
7becoming law.".