103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB2238
 
Introduced 2/10/2023, by Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
    
105 ILCS 5/10-22.23  from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.23
105 ILCS 5/14-1.09  from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.09

     Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district must employ a sufficient number of school psychologists and school nurses to address the needs of the school district's students and schools, but no less than a student-to-social worker and student-to-nurse ratio of 750 to 1. For school nurses, provides that consideration for school nurse staffing should include the complex health needs of students, needs for continuous professional nursing services, the number of free and reduced lunch students in a school building, and the average number of medical emergencies at a school per year. Effective June 30, 2023.
  


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1    AN ACT concerning education.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended  by changing Sections 
510-22.23 and 14-1.09 as follows:
 



6    (105 ILCS 5/10-22.23)  (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.23)



7    Sec. 10-22.23. School Nurse. To employ a registered 
8professional
nurse and define the duties of the school nurse 
9within the guidelines of
rules and regulations promulgated by 
10the State Board of Education.  Any
school nurse first employed 
11on or after July 1, 1976, whose duties
require teaching or the 
12exercise of instructional judgment or educational
evaluation 
13of pupils, must be licensed under Section 21B-25 of this Code.

14School districts may employ nonlicensed registered 
15professional nurses
to perform professional nursing services.
16    A school district must employ a sufficient number of 
17school nurses to address the needs of their students, but no 
18less than a student-to-nurse ratio of 750 to 1. Consideration 
19for school nurse staffing should include the complex health 
20needs of students, needs for continuous professional nursing 
21services, the number of free and reduced lunch students in a 
22school building, and the average number of medical emergencies 
23at a school per year. 

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

 



2    (105 ILCS 5/14-1.09)  (from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.09)



3    Sec. 14-1.09. School psychologist. "School psychologist" 
4means a
psychologist who meets the following qualifications: 
5        (1) The psychologist: 
6            (A) has graduated with a master's or higher degree 
7        in
psychology or educational psychology from an 
8        institution of higher learning that
 maintains 
9        equipment,
courses of study, and standards of 
10        scholarship approved by the State Board
of Education, 
11        has had at least one school year of full-time 
12        supervised
experience in the delivery of school 
13        psychological services of a character
approved by the 
14        State
Superintendent of Education, and has such 
15        additional qualifications
as may be required
by the 
16        State Board of Education; or 
17            (B) holds a valid Nationally Certified School 
18        Psychologist (NCSP) credential. 
19        (2) The psychologist holds a Professional Educator 
20    License with a school psychologist endorsement issued 
21    pursuant to Section 21B-25 of this Code.
Persons so 
22    licensed may use the title "school psychologist" and may

23    offer school psychological services which are limited to 
24    those services set
forth in 23 Ill. Adm. Code 226, Special 
25    Education, pertaining to children
between the ages of 3 to 
 
 
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1    21, promulgated by the State Board of Education.

2    School psychologists may make evaluations, recommendations 
3or interventions
regarding the placement of children in 
4educational programs or special
education classes.  However, a 
5school psychologist shall not provide such
services outside 
6his or her employment to any student in the district or

7districts which employ such school psychologist.
8    A school district must employ a sufficient number of 
9school psychologists to address the needs of the school 
10district's students and schools, but no less than a 
11student-to-social worker ratio of 500 to 1. 

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

 
 
13    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect June 30, 
142023.