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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, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) (from Ch. 122, par. 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 | If an employee other than a teacher under this Section does not |
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1 | use the full amount of annual leave thus allowed, the unused | ||||||
2 | amount shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum available | ||||||
3 | leave of 240 days at full pay, including the leave of the | ||||||
4 | current year. Sick leave shall be interpreted to mean personal | ||||||
5 | illness, quarantine
at home, serious illness or death in the | ||||||
6 | immediate family or household, or
birth, adoption, or placement | ||||||
7 | for adoption.
The school board may require a certificate from a | ||||||
8 | physician licensed in Illinois to practice medicine and surgery | ||||||
9 | in all its branches, an advanced practice nurse who has a | ||||||
10 | written collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician | ||||||
11 | that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to perform health | ||||||
12 | examinations, or a physician assistant who has been delegated | ||||||
13 | the authority to perform health examinations by his or her | ||||||
14 | supervising physician, or if the treatment
is by prayer or | ||||||
15 | spiritual means, that of a spiritual adviser or
practitioner of | ||||||
16 | such person's faith, as a basis for pay during leave after
an | ||||||
17 | absence of 3 days for personal illness, or as it may deem | ||||||
18 | necessary in
other cases. If the school board does require a
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19 | certificate
as a basis for pay during leave of
less than 3 | ||||||
20 | days, the school board shall pay, from school funds, the
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21 | expenses incurred by the teachers or other employees in | ||||||
22 | obtaining the certificate.
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23 | If, by reason of any change in the boundaries of school | ||||||
24 | districts, or by
reason of the creation of a new school | ||||||
25 | district, the employment of a
teacher is transferred to a new | ||||||
26 | or different board, the accumulated sick
leave of such teacher |
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1 | is not thereby lost, but is transferred to such new
or | ||||||
2 | different district.
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3 | For purposes of this Section, "immediate family" shall | ||||||
4 | include parents,
spouse, brothers, sisters, children, | ||||||
5 | grandparents, grandchildren,
parents-in-law, brothers-in-law, | ||||||
6 | sisters-in-law, and legal guardians.
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7 | (Source: P.A. 94-350, eff. 7-28-05; 95-151, eff. 8-14-07.)
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8 | Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | ||||||
9 | Section 8.33 as follows: | ||||||
10 | (30 ILCS 805/8.33 new) | ||||||
11 | Sec. 8.33. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | ||||||
12 | of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | ||||||
13 | implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | ||||||
14 | the 96th General Assembly. |