SB3541 Summary

• Amends Section 14-8.02 of the School Code regarding identification, evaluation, and placement of children in special education programs with technical corrections.

• Changes article (a) from "The" to "The" State Board of Education (grammatical/technical correction).

• Maintains existing provisions for non-discriminatory testing procedures for limited English proficiency students and qualified bilingual specialist involvement in special education evaluations.

• Preserves requirements for multidisciplinary staff conferences, parental notification, independent educational evaluations, and 60-school-day timelines for eligibility determination and IEP completion.

• Contains no substantive policy changes, only technical/grammatical modifications to existing special education law.