SB2238sam001 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel

Filed: 3/3/2023

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2238

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2238 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections 10-22.23 and 14-1.09 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.23) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.23)

Sec. 10-22.23. School Nurse. To employ a registered professional nurse and define the duties of the school nurse within the guidelines of rules and regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education. Any school nurse first employed on or after July 1, 1976, whose duties require teaching or the exercise of instructional judgment or educational evaluation of pupils, must be licensed under Section 21B-25 of this Code. School districts may employ nonlicensed registered professional nurses to perform professional nursing services.

A school district may employ a sufficient number of school nurses to address the needs of its students, but no less than a student-to-school nurse ratio of 750 to 1. Consideration for school nurse staffing should include the complex health needs of students, the need for continuous professional nursing services, the number of free and reduced-price lunch students in a school building, and the average number of medical emergencies at a school per year.

(Source: P.A. 102-894, eff. 5-20-22.)

(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 maintains equipment, courses of study, and standards of scholarship approved by the State Board of Education, 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 has such additional qualifications as may be required by the State Board of Education; or

(B) holds a valid Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP) credential.

(2) The psychologist holds a Professional Educator License with a school psychologist endorsement issued pursuant to Section 21B-25 of this Code. Persons so licensed 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.

A school district may employ a sufficient number of school psychologists to address the needs of the school district's students and schools, but no less than a student-to-school psychologist ratio of 500 to 1.

(Source: P.A. 100-750, eff. 8-10-18.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect June 30, 2023.".