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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB4114
Introduced 10/15/2025, by Rep. Brad Halbrook
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/2-3.203
Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning mental health screenings, removes the requirement that the State Board of Education report its work and make available resource materials, including model procedures and guidance informed by a phased approach to implementing universal mental health screening in schools, on or before September 1, 2026. Also removes the requirement that school districts offer, beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, mental health screenings to students in grade 3 through grade 12. Effective January 1, 2026.
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A BILL FOR
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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
52-3.203 as follows:
6    (105 ILCS 5/2-3.203)
7    (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-32)
8    Sec. 2-3.203. Mental health screenings.
9    (a) On or before December 15, 2023, the State Board of
10Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral
11Health Transformation Officer, Children's Behavioral Health
12Transformation Team, and the Office of the Governor, shall
13file a report with the Governor and the General Assembly that
14includes recommendations for implementation of mental health
15screenings in schools for students enrolled in kindergarten
16through grade 12. This report must include a landscape scan of
17current district-wide screenings, recommendations for
18screening tools, training for staff, and linkage and referral
19for identified students.
20    (b) On or before October 1, 2024, the State Board of
21Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral
22Health Transformation Team, the Office of the Governor, and
23relevant stakeholders as needed shall release a strategy that
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1includes a tool for measuring capacity and readiness to
2implement universal mental health screening of students. The
3strategy shall build upon existing efforts to understand
4district needs for resources, technology, training, and
5infrastructure supports. The strategy shall include a
6framework for supporting districts in a phased approach to
7implement universal mental health screenings. The State Board
8of Education shall issue a report to the Governor and the
9General Assembly on school district readiness and plan for
10phased approach to universal mental health screening of
11students on or before April 1, 2025.
12(Source: P.A. 103-546, eff. 8-11-23; 103-605, eff. 7-1-24;
13103-885, eff. 8-9-24.)
14    (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 104-32)
15    Sec. 2-3.203. Mental health screenings.
16    (a) On or before December 15, 2023, the State Board of
17Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral
18Health Transformation Team in the Office of the Governor,
19shall file a report with the Governor and the General Assembly
20that includes recommendations for implementation of mental
21health screenings in schools for students enrolled in
22kindergarten through grade 12. This report must include a
23landscape scan of current district-wide screenings,
24recommendations for screening tools, training for staff, and
25linkage and referral for identified students.
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1    (b) On or before October 1, 2024, the State Board of
2Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral
3Health Transformation Team in the Office of the Governor, and
4relevant stakeholders as needed shall release a strategy that
5includes a tool for measuring capacity and readiness to
6implement universal mental health screening of students. The
7strategy shall build upon existing efforts to understand
8district needs for resources, technology, training, and
9infrastructure supports. The strategy shall include a
10framework for supporting districts in a phased approach to
11implement universal mental health screenings. The State Board
12of Education shall issue a report to the Governor and the
13General Assembly on school district readiness and plan for
14phased approach to universal mental health screening of
15students on or before April 1, 2025.
16    (c) (Blank). [On or before September 1, 2026, the State ]
17[Board of Education, in consultation with the Children's ]
18[Behavioral Health Transformation Team in the Office of the ]
19[Governor and relevant stakeholders, shall report its work and ]
20[make available resource materials, including model procedures ]
21[and guidance informed by a phased approach to implementing ]
22[universal mental health screening in schools. These model ]
23[school district procedures to facilitate the implementation of ]
24[mental health screenings shall include, but are not limited ]
25[to, the option to opt-out, confidentiality and privacy ]
26[considerations, communication with families and communities ]
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1[about the use of mental health screenings, data sharing, and ]
2[storage of mental health screening results and plans for ]
3[follow-up and linkage to resources after screenings. Guidance ]
4[shall include (1) mental health screening tools available for ]
5[school districts to use with students and (2) associated ]
6[training for school personnel. The State Board of Education ]
7[shall make these resource materials available on its website.]
8    (d) (Blank). [Mental health screenings shall be offered by ]
9[school districts to students enrolled in grade 3 through grade ]
10[12, at least once a year, beginning with the 2027-2028 school ]
11[year. A district may, by action of the State Board of ]
12[Education, apply for an extension of the 2027-2028 school year ]
13[implementation deadline if the school district meets criteria ]
14[set by rule by the State Board of Education, which shall be ]
15[based on the recommendations of the report issued in ]
16[accordance with subsection (c). Notwithstanding the provisions ]
17[of this subsection, the requirement to offer mental health ]
18[screenings shall be in effect only for school years in which ]
19[the State has successfully procured a screening tool that ]
20[offers a self-report option for students and is made available ]
21[to school districts at no cost.]
22(Source: P.A. 103-546, eff. 8-11-23; 103-605, eff. 7-1-24;
23103-885, eff. 8-9-24; 104-32, eff. 1-1-26; revised 8-28-25.)
24    Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes
25changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text
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1that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section
2represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does
3not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes
4made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other
5Public Act.
6    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
71, 2026.