SB2989enr 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB2989 Enrolled LRB098 16604 NHT 51672 b

AN ACT concerning education.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section 14-1.09 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/14-1.09) (from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.09)

Sec. 14-1.09. School psychologist. "School psychologist" means a psychologist who meets the following qualifications:

(1) The psychologist:

(A) has graduated with a master's or higher degree in psychology or educational psychology from an institution of higher learning that which maintains equipment, courses of study, and standards of scholarship approved by the State Board of Education, who has had at least one school year of full-time supervised experience in the delivery of school psychological services of a character approved by the State Superintendent of Education, and who has such additional qualifications as may be required by the State Board of Education; or , and

(B) holds a valid Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP) certificate and has such additional qualifications as may be required by the State Board of Education.

(2) The psychologist who holds a Professional Educator License with a school psychologist endorsement School Service Personnel Certificate endorsed for school psychology issued pursuant to Section 21B-25 of this Code 21-25. Persons so licensed certified may use the title "school psychologist" and may offer school psychological services which are limited to those services set forth in 23 Ill. Adm. Code 226, Special Education, pertaining to children between the ages of 3 to 21, promulgated by the State Board of Education.

School psychologists may make evaluations, recommendations or interventions regarding the placement of children in educational programs or special education classes. However, a school psychologist shall not provide such services outside his or her employment to any student in the district or districts which employ such school psychologist.

(Source: P.A. 85-361.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.