Standard educator licenses; revise requirements for.

2025 Regular Session

The bill would appropriate $4.5M from the Supreme Court Historic Preservation Fund and $0.9M GRF to fund the Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission’s preservation activitie

Died In Committee

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Overview / Purpose

SB 2612 is an appropriations bill that would provide funding for the Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission and the Supreme Court Historic Preservation Fund. Despite an initial header/title referencing educator licensure, the text of the introduced bill authorizes two specific appropriations for historic preservation related to the Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Fund and Commission.

The bill’s effective date (if enacted) is July 1, 2025.

Key provisions

Appropriates $4,500,000 (or so much as may be necessary) from the Supreme Court Historic Preservation Fund to the Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission for "Historic Preservation purposes."

Appropriates $900,000 (or so much as may be necessary) from the General Revenue Fund (GRF) to the Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission for deposit into the Supreme Court Historic Preservation Fund.

Effective date: July 1, 2025.

The bill text does not specify particular projects, line-item uses, or timing for the preservation activities; it authorizes the stated dollar transfers and leaves deployment to the Commission consistent with its statutory purpose.

Fiscal impact / Budgetary effect

Direct GRF impact: a one-time appropriation of $900,000 from the General Revenue Fund to be deposited into the Supreme Court Historic Preservation Fund.

Fund-level impact: authorization to spend $4,500,000 from the Supreme Court Historic Preservation Fund by the Commission. Net effect on that fund depends on its beginning balance and other receipts; the bill authorizes a substantial drawdown ($4.5M) while also adding $900K from GRF.

The bill does not include other programmatic or long-term fiscal details.

Who is affected

Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission: authorized recipient and spender of the appropriated funds.

Supreme Court Historic Preservation Fund: source of the $4.5M appropriation and recipient of the $900K GRF deposit.

State General Revenue Fund: source of the $900K deposit.

No direct changes to operations of schools, educators, or licensure procedures despite the mismatched title that mentions educator licenses.

Procedural history and status

Introduced (filed) by Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr. (listed dates: Feb 25, 2025 / March 13, 2025 in the record).

Referred to committee (Education K-16 / Assignments per the record).

Final listed status: Died In Committee (record shows date 2025-03-04).

Companion bill: HB 3048.

Note: the provided legislative-action entries contain some inconsistent dates (e.g., readings and referrals listed after the "Died In Committee" date). The official status listed for this bill is "Died In Committee," indicating it did not advance to final passage in this session.

Observations

The enacted language is narrowly focused on funding for historic preservation connected to the Illinois Supreme Court; it does not alter policy outside those appropriations.

The bill title supplied with the request (about standard educator licenses) appears to be inconsistent with the bill text; the summary above follows the introduced bill text, which concerns historic preservation appropriations.

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