Illinois Code § 40

§ 40.

Common rules. The State Board of Education and the Office of the State Fire Marshal shall cooperate together and coordinate with all appropriate education, first responder, and emergency management officials to (i) develop and implement one common set of rules to be administered under this Act and (ii) develop clear and definitive guidelines to school districts, private schools, and first responders as to how to develop school emergency and crisis response plans, how to develop school emergency and crisis response plans, threat assessment procedures, rapid entry response plans, and cardiac emergency response plans, how to exercise and drill based on such plans and procedures, and how to incorporate lessons learned from these exercises and drills into school emergency and crisis response plans. The State Board of Education, in consultation with the Illinois State Police, shall adopt rules to implement this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly. Recognizing the adoption of such rules is deemed an emergency and necessary for the public interest, safety, and welfare of schools in this State, the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Illinois State Police, may adopt rules necessary to implement this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly through the use of emergency rulemaking in accordance with Section 5-45 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act for a period not to exceed 365 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th amendatory Act. (Source: P.A. 104-407, eff. 8-15-25.)