Public Act 098-0716
 
HB4262 EnrolledLRB098 13553 NHT 48078 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 
24-5 as follows:
 



    (105 ILCS 5/24-5)  (from Ch. 122, par. 24-5)



    Sec. 24-5. Physical fitness and professional growth. 
    (a)  In this Section, "employee" means any employee of a 
school district, a student teacher, an employee of a contractor 
that provides services to students or in schools, or any other 
individual subject to the requirements of Section 10-21.9 or 
34-18.5 of this Code. 
    (b) School boards shall require of new employees evidence 
of physical
fitness to perform duties assigned and freedom from 
communicable disease,
including tuberculosis. Such evidence 
shall consist of a physical
examination and a tuberculin skin 
test and, if appropriate, an x-ray, made
by a physician 
licensed in Illinois or any other state to practice medicine

and surgery in all its branches, an advanced practice nurse who 
has a written collaborative agreement with a collaborating 
physician that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to 
perform health examinations, or a physician assistant who has 
been delegated the authority to perform health examinations by 
his or her supervising physician not more than 90 days 
preceding time of
presentation to the board, and the cost of 
such examination shall rest with the
employee. A new or 
existing employee may be subject to additional health 
examinations, including screening for tuberculosis, as 
required by rules adopted by the Department of Public Health or 
by order of a local public health official. The board may from 
time to time require an examination of any
employee by a 
physician licensed in Illinois to practice medicine and
surgery 
in all its branches, an advanced practice nurse who has a 
written collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician 
that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to perform health 
examinations, or a physician assistant who has been delegated 
the authority to perform health examinations by his or her 
supervising physician and shall pay the expenses thereof from 
school
funds.  
    (c) School boards may require teachers in their employ to 
furnish from
time to time evidence of continued professional 
growth.

(Source: P.A. 94-350, eff. 7-28-05.)

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