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HB 3366

Relating to firefighting funding.

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Court Boice

HB 3366 preserves the ban on withholding grades/transcripts/diplomas for unpaid balances and removes the annual reporting to ISBE, making the prohibition effectively permanent.

In committee upon adjournment.
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Bill Summary · HB 3366

HB 3366 — Relating to firefighting funding (text amends School Code)

Note: The bill title in the header references "firefighting funding," but the text of the bill as introduced amends Section 10‑20.9a of the School Code (student grading and promotion). This summary reflects the bill text, not the possibly-mismatched title.

Purpose / Intent

HB 3366 modifies the School Code provision that governs withholding student grades, transcripts, and diplomas for unpaid school account balances. The bill removes a statutory reporting requirement for school districts and eliminates a scheduled inactivation (sunset) of the prohibition on withholding records.

Key provisions

  • Amends 105 ILCS 5/10-20.9a (Section 10‑20.9a of the School Code).
  • Subsection (c) (existing law) continues to prohibit any public high school in a district from withholding a student's grades, transcripts, or diploma because of an unpaid balance on the student's school account.
    • HB 3366 removes the clause that required each school district, at the end of each school year, to catalogue and report to the State Board of Education the total unpaid amount owed by students that resulted from this prohibition.
  • The bill deletes the language in subsection (d) that would have made subsection (c) inoperative (i.e., a sunset provision). By removing that inoperative clause, the prohibition on withholding records would remain without the previously scheduled expiration.
  • Other parts of Section 10‑20.9a governing grading, promotion, and remedial assistance remain as the underlying statute; the bill’s substantive edits focus on the reporting requirement and the inoperative/sunset language.

Who is affected

  • School districts: no longer required to prepare and submit an annual catalogue/report of unpaid student account balances attributable to the prohibition on withholding records. They remain prohibited from withholding grades/transcripts/diplomas for unpaid balances.
  • State Board of Education (ISBE): would no longer receive the aggregated annual data from districts that the statute previously required.
  • Students and families: their records continue to be protected from withholding due to unpaid balances; however, the state will have less granular statewide data on unpaid student fees tied to that prohibition.
  • Policymakers and researchers: loss of a statutory data source on unpaid student account balances may reduce available evidence for policy decisions or funding considerations.

Projected impacts / considerations

  • Administrative: reduces a reporting burden on districts and ISBE.
  • Fiscal/data: removes a data stream that quantified unpaid balances remaining because districts cannot withhold records; this could make it harder to assess the fiscal impact of unpaid fees on districts or to target state assistance.
  • Legal/policy: by removing the scheduled inactivation, the prohibition becomes effectively permanent (absent later legislative change).

Procedural / timeline status

  • Introduced: February 2025 (text shows introduction 2/18/2025; filed 2/26/2025).
  • Sponsor: Rep. Joyce Mason.
  • Legislative actions (selected): first reading 2/18/2025; referred to Rules Committee and multiple committees; public hearing 3/25/2025; work session 4/1/2025; committee recommended “do pass” with referral to Ways and Means 4/4/2025; reported to additional committees; status: in committee upon adjournment (6/28/2025).

If enacted, HB 3366 would keep the prohibition on withholding student academic records for unpaid balances in force indefinitely while removing the statutory requirement that districts annually report amounts outstanding to the State Board of Education.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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