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1 AN ACT concerning education.


2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly: 



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

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


25 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
26becoming law.