HB 4536

Amends the Regional Superintendent of Schools Article of the School Code. With respect to the requirement that institutes provide instruction on trauma-informed practices and include the definitions of trauma, trauma-responsive learning environments, and whole child before the first student attendance day of each school year, makes changes to the definitions of "trauma"" and ""trauma-responsive learning environments"". Defines ""trauma-informed practices"" to include awareness of populations for whom trauma may be ongoing, relational, and developmentally expressed over time. Effective immediately."