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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2445
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 2445 on page 1,
3 immediately below line 3, by inserting the following:
4 "Section 3. The Election Code is amended by changing
5 Section 11-4.1 as follows:
6 (10 ILCS 5/11-4.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1)
7 Sec. 11-4.1. (a) In appointing polling places under this
8 Article, the county board or board of election commissioners
9 shall, insofar as they are convenient and available, use
10 schools and other public buildings as polling places.
11 (b) Upon request of the county board or board of
12 election commissioners, the proper agency of government
13 (including school districts and units of local government)
14 shall make a public building under its control available for
15 use as a polling place on an election day and for a
16 reasonably necessary time before and after election day,
17 without charge. If the county board or board of election
18 commissioners chooses a school to be a polling place, then
19 the school district must make the school available for use as
20 a polling place. However, for the day of the election, a
21 school district may choose to (i) keep the school open or
22 (ii) hold a teachers institute on that day, subject to
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1 Section 3-11 of the School Code.
2 (c) A government agency which makes a public building
3 under its control available for use as a polling place shall
4 ensure the portion of the building to be used as the polling
5 place is accessible to handicapped and elderly voters.
6 (Source: P.A. 92-465, eff. 8-22-01.)"; and
7 on page 1, line 5, by replacing "Section 18-8.05" with
8 "Sections 3-11, 18-8.05, and 24-2"; and
9 on page 1, immediately below line 5, by inserting the
10 following:
11 "(105 ILCS 5/3-11) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-11)
12 Sec. 3-11. Institutes or inservice training workshops.
13 In counties of less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, the regional
14 superintendent may arrange for or conduct district, regional,
15 or county institutes, or equivalent professional educational
16 experiences, not more than 4 days annually. Of those 4 days,
17 2 days may be used as a teacher's workshop, when approved by
18 the regional superintendent, up to 2 days may be used for
19 conducting parent-teacher conferences or up to 2 days may be
20 utilized as parental institute days as provided in Section
21 10-22.18d. A school district may use one of its 4 institute
22 days on the last day of the school term. "Institute" or
23 "Professional educational experiences" means any educational
24 gathering, demonstration of methods of instruction,
25 visitation of schools or other institutions or facilities, or
26 sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness seminar held or
27 approved by the regional superintendent and declared by him
28 to be an institute day, or parent-teacher conferences. With
29 the concurrence of the State Superintendent of Education, he
30 or she may employ such assistance as is necessary to conduct
31 the institute. Two or more adjoining counties may jointly
32 hold an institute. Institute instruction shall be free to
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1 holders of certificates good in the county or counties
2 holding the institute, and to those who have paid an
3 examination fee and failed to receive a certificate.
4 In counties of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, the
5 regional superintendent may arrange for or conduct district,
6 regional, or county inservice training workshops, or
7 equivalent professional educational experiences, not more
8 than 4 days annually. Of those 4 days, 2 days may be used for
9 conducting parent-teacher conferences and up to 2 days may be
10 utilized as parental institute days as provided in Section
11 10-22.18d. A school district may use one of those 4 days on
12 the last day of the school term. "Inservice Training
13 Workshops" or "Professional educational experiences" means
14 any educational gathering, demonstration of methods of
15 instruction, visitation of schools or other institutions or
16 facilities, or sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness
17 seminar held or approved by the regional superintendent and
18 declared by him to be an inservice training workshop, or
19 parent-teacher conferences. With the concurrence of the
20 State Superintendent of Education, he may employ such
21 assistance as is necessary to conduct the inservice training
22 workshop. With the approval of the regional superintendent,
23 2 or more adjoining districts may jointly hold an inservice
24 training workshop. In addition, with the approval of the
25 regional superintendent, one district may conduct its own
26 inservice training workshop with subject matter consultants
27 requested from the county, State or any State institution of
28 higher learning.
29 Such teachers institutes as referred to in this Section
30 may be held on consecutive or separate days at the option of
31 the regional superintendent having jurisdiction thereof.
32 However, if teachers institutes are held on separate days,
33 the institutes may not be held on any Tuesday, Wednesday, or
34 Thursday unless that day falls at the beginning or end of the
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1 school term.
2 Whenever reference is made in this Act to "teachers
3 institute", it shall be construed to include the inservice
4 training workshops or equivalent professional educational
5 experiences provided for in this Section.
6 Any institute advisory committee existing on April 1,
7 1995, is dissolved and the duties and responsibilities of the
8 institute advisory committee are assumed by the regional
9 office of education advisory board.
10 Districts providing inservice training programs shall
11 constitute inservice committees, 1/2 of which shall be
12 teachers, 1/4 school service personnel and 1/4 administrators
13 to establish program content and schedules.
14 The teachers institutes shall include teacher training
15 committed to peer counseling programs and other anti-violence
16 and conflict resolution programs, including without
17 limitation programs for preventing at risk students from
18 committing violent acts.
19 (Source: P.A. 91-491, eff. 8-13-99.)"; and
20 on page 29, immediately below line 12, by inserting the
21 following:
22 "(105 ILCS 5/24-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-2)
23 Sec. 24-2. Holidays. Teachers shall not be required to
24 teach on Saturdays; nor shall teachers or other school
25 employees, other than noncertificated school employees whose
26 presence is necessary because of an emergency or for the
27 continued operation and maintenance of school facilities or
28 property, be required to work on legal school holidays, which
29 are January 1, New Year's Day; the third Monday in January,
30 observance of the Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.;
31 the third Monday in February 12, observance of the Birthday
32 of President Abraham Lincoln; the first Monday in March
33 observance of (to be known as Casimir Pulaski's birthday);
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1 Good Friday; the day designated as Memorial Day by federal
2 law; July 4, Independence Day; the first Monday in September,
3 Labor Day; the second Monday in October, Columbus Day; the
4 second Monday in November 11, observance of Veteran's Day;
5 the Thursday in November commonly called Thanksgiving Day;
6 and December 25, Christmas Day. School boards may grant
7 special holidays on any Monday or Friday whenever in their
8 judgment such action is advisable, except that no school
9 board or board of education may designate or observe as a
10 special holiday on which teachers or other school employees
11 are not required to work the days on which general elections
12 for members of the Illinois House of Representatives are
13 held. No deduction shall be made from the time or
14 compensation of a school employee on account of any legal or
15 special holiday.
16 Commemorative holidays, which recognize specified
17 patriotic, civic, cultural or historical persons, activities,
18 or events, are regular school days. Commemorative holidays
19 are: January 28 (to be known as Christa McAuliffe Day and
20 observed as a commemoration of space exploration), February
21 15 (the birthday of Susan B. Anthony), March 29 (Viet Nam War
22 Veterans Day), September 11 (September 11th Day of
23 Remembrance), the school day immediately preceding Veteran's
24 Day (Korean War Veterans Day), October 1 (Recycling Day),
25 December 7 (Pearl Harbor Veterans Day) and any day so
26 appointed by the President or Governor. School boards may
27 establish commemorative holidays whenever in their judgment
28 such action is advisable. School boards shall include
29 instruction relative to commemorated persons, activities, or
30 events on the commemorative holiday or at any other time
31 during the school year and at any point in the curriculum
32 when such instruction may be deemed appropriate. The State
33 Board of Education shall prepare and make available to school
34 boards instructional materials relative to commemorated
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1 persons, activities, or events which may be used by school
2 boards in conjunction with any instruction provided pursuant
3 to this paragraph.
4 City of Chicago School District 299 shall observe March 4
5 of each year as a commemorative holiday. This holiday shall
6 be known as Mayors' Day which shall be a day to commemorate
7 and be reminded of the past Chief Executive Officers of the
8 City of Chicago, and in particular the late Mayor Richard J.
9 Daley and the late Mayor Harold Washington. If March 4 falls
10 on a Saturday or Sunday, Mayors' Day shall be observed on the
11 following Monday.
12 (Source: P.A. 92-704, eff. 7-19-02.)".