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Rep. Katie Stuart
Filed: 4/15/2024
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3907
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3907 by replacing |
3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following: |
4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section |
5 | | 24-9.5 as follows: |
6 | | (105 ILCS 5/24-9.5 new) |
7 | | Sec. 24-9.5. Teacher or clinician planning time. |
8 | | (a) In this Section: |
9 | | "Clinician" means a related service provider, including, |
10 | | but not limited to, a school social worker, school |
11 | | psychologist, school counselor, school nurse, school |
12 | | speech-language pathologist, or school physical or |
13 | | occupational therapist. |
14 | | "Duty-free" means the time during which a teacher or |
15 | | clinician is not required to supervise students, collaborate |
16 | | with other school district employees, or attend meetings, |
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1 | | trainings, or conferences of any kind. |
2 | | (b) For every teacher or clinician of a school district |
3 | | who is in contact with students at least 50% of the teacher's |
4 | | or clinician's contracted work day, on and after the effective |
5 | | date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly, a |
6 | | school district may not reduce any designated, duty-free |
7 | | planning time that is provided to teachers or clinicians by |
8 | | the school district, as agreed upon by the exclusive |
9 | | bargaining representative of the teachers or clinicians and |
10 | | the school district. Any agreements made on or after the |
11 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General |
12 | | Assembly between the exclusive bargaining representative of |
13 | | the teachers or clinicians and the school district may not |
14 | | reduce designated, duty-free planning time. |
15 | | (c) If a teacher or clinician chooses to relinquish the |
16 | | teacher's or clinician's entitlement to designated, duty-free |
17 | | planning time under subsection (b), then the teacher or |
18 | | clinician shall be compensated for that relinquishment at a |
19 | | collectively bargained rate of pay. ". |