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State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB5537 Introduced , by Rep. Mary E. Flowers SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the School Code. Provides that for the purposes of calculating the paid sick leave for the birth of a child or the adoption or placement for adoption of a child: the days do not have to be taken immediately after the birth of the child or the adoption or placement of the child; the days do not have to be taken consecutively; and the school board may not count any day in which school is not in session, including an extended break.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
| 5 | | 24-6 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/24-6)
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| 7 | | Sec. 24-6. Sick leave. The school boards of all school |
| 8 | | districts, including special charter
districts, but not |
| 9 | | including school districts in municipalities of 500,000
or |
| 10 | | more, shall grant their full-time teachers, and also shall |
| 11 | | grant
such of their other employees as are eligible to |
| 12 | | participate in the
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund under the |
| 13 | | "600-Hour Standard"
established, or under such other |
| 14 | | eligibility participation standard as may
from time to time be |
| 15 | | established, by rules and regulations now or hereafter
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| 16 | | promulgated by the Board of that Fund under Section 7-198 of |
| 17 | | the Illinois
Pension Code, as now or hereafter amended, sick |
| 18 | | leave
provisions not less in amount than 10 days at full pay in |
| 19 | | each school year.
If any such teacher or employee does not use |
| 20 | | the full amount of annual leave
thus allowed, the unused amount |
| 21 | | shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum
available leave of |
| 22 | | 180 days at full pay, including the leave of the current
year. |
| 23 | | Sick leave shall be interpreted to mean personal illness, |
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| 1 | | quarantine
at home, serious illness or death in the immediate |
| 2 | | family or household, or
birth, adoption, or placement for |
| 3 | | adoption.
The school board may require a certificate from a |
| 4 | | physician licensed in Illinois to practice medicine and surgery |
| 5 | | in all its branches, a chiropractic physician licensed under |
| 6 | | the Medical Practice Act of 1987, a licensed advanced practice |
| 7 | | registered nurse, a licensed physician assistant, or, if the |
| 8 | | treatment
is by prayer or spiritual means, a spiritual adviser |
| 9 | | or
practitioner of the teacher's or employee's faith as a basis |
| 10 | | for pay during leave after
an absence of 3 days for personal |
| 11 | | illness or 30 days for birth or as the school board may deem |
| 12 | | necessary in
other cases. If the school board does require a
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| 13 | | certificate
as a basis for pay during leave of
less than 3 days |
| 14 | | for personal illness, the school board shall pay, from school |
| 15 | | funds, the
expenses incurred by the teachers or other employees |
| 16 | | in obtaining the certificate. For paid leave for adoption or |
| 17 | | placement for adoption, the school board may require that the |
| 18 | | teacher or other employee provide evidence that the formal |
| 19 | | adoption process is underway, and such leave is limited to 30 |
| 20 | | days unless a longer leave has been negotiated with the |
| 21 | | exclusive bargaining representative.
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| 22 | | For the purposes of calculating the paid sick leave for the |
| 23 | | birth of a child or the adoption or placement for adoption of a |
| 24 | | child: |
| 25 | | (1) the days do not have to be taken immediately after |
| 26 | | the birth of the child or the adoption or placement of the |
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| 1 | | child; |
| 2 | | (2) the days do not have to be taken consecutively; and |
| 3 | | (3) the school board may not count any day in which |
| 4 | | school is not in session, including an extended break. |
| 5 | | If, by reason of any change in the boundaries of school |
| 6 | | districts, or by
reason of the creation of a new school |
| 7 | | district, the employment of a
teacher is transferred to a new |
| 8 | | or different board, the accumulated sick
leave of such teacher |
| 9 | | is not thereby lost, but is transferred to such new
or |
| 10 | | different district.
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| 11 | | For purposes of this Section, "immediate family" shall |
| 12 | | include parents,
spouse, brothers, sisters, children, |
| 13 | | grandparents, grandchildren,
parents-in-law, brothers-in-law, |
| 14 | | sisters-in-law, and legal guardians.
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| 15 | | (Source: P.A. 99-173, eff. 7-29-15; 100-513, eff. 1-1-18.)
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