103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB2238

 

Introduced 2/10/2023, by Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/10-22.23  from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.23
105 ILCS 5/14-1.09  from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.09

    Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district must employ a sufficient number of school psychologists and school nurses to address the needs of the school district's students and schools, but no less than a student-to-social worker and student-to-nurse ratio of 750 to 1. For school nurses, provides that consideration for school nurse staffing should include the complex health needs of students, needs for continuous professional nursing services, the number of free and reduced lunch students in a school building, and the average number of medical emergencies at a school per year. Effective June 30, 2023.


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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 Sections
510-22.23 and 14-1.09 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/10-22.23)  (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.23)
7    Sec. 10-22.23. School Nurse. To employ a registered
8professional nurse and define the duties of the school nurse
9within the guidelines of rules and regulations promulgated by
10the State Board of Education. Any school nurse first employed
11on or after July 1, 1976, whose duties require teaching or the
12exercise of instructional judgment or educational evaluation
13of pupils, must be licensed under Section 21B-25 of this Code.
14School districts may employ nonlicensed registered
15professional nurses to perform professional nursing services.
16    A school district must employ a sufficient number of
17school nurses to address the needs of their students, but no
18less than a student-to-nurse ratio of 750 to 1. Consideration
19for school nurse staffing should include the complex health
20needs of students, needs for continuous professional nursing
21services, the number of free and reduced lunch students in a
22school building, and the average number of medical emergencies
23at a school per year.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 102-894, eff. 5-20-22.)
 
2    (105 ILCS 5/14-1.09)  (from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.09)
3    Sec. 14-1.09. School psychologist. "School psychologist"
4means a psychologist who meets the following qualifications:
5        (1) The psychologist:
6            (A) has graduated with a master's or higher degree
7        in psychology or educational psychology from an
8        institution of higher learning that maintains
9        equipment, courses of study, and standards of
10        scholarship approved by the State Board of Education,
11        has had at least one school year of full-time
12        supervised experience in the delivery of school
13        psychological services of a character approved by the
14        State Superintendent of Education, and has such
15        additional qualifications as may be required by the
16        State Board of Education; or
17            (B) holds a valid Nationally Certified School
18        Psychologist (NCSP) credential.
19        (2) The psychologist holds a Professional Educator
20    License with a school psychologist endorsement issued
21    pursuant to Section 21B-25 of this Code. Persons so
22    licensed may use the title "school psychologist" and may
23    offer school psychological services which are limited to
24    those services set forth in 23 Ill. Adm. Code 226, Special
25    Education, pertaining to children between the ages of 3 to

 

 

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1    21, promulgated by the State Board of Education.
2    School psychologists may make evaluations, recommendations
3or interventions regarding the placement of children in
4educational programs or special education classes. However, a
5school psychologist shall not provide such services outside
6his or her employment to any student in the district or
7districts which employ such school psychologist.
8    A school district must employ a sufficient number of
9school psychologists to address the needs of the school
10district's students and schools, but no less than a
11student-to-social worker ratio of 500 to 1.
12(Source: P.A. 100-750, eff. 8-10-18.)
 
13    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect June 30,
142023.