Full Text of SB2784 94th General Assembly
SB2784eng 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning schools.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
Section | 5 |
| 24-6 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/24-6) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-6)
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| 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
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| 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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| 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, | 24 |
| quarantine
at home, or serious illness or death in the | 25 |
| immediate family or household , or
birth, adoption or placement | 26 |
| for adoption .
The school board may require a certificate from a | 27 |
| physician licensed in Illinois to practice medicine and surgery | 28 |
| in all its branches, an advanced practice nurse who has a | 29 |
| written collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician | 30 |
| that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to perform health | 31 |
| examinations, or a physician assistant who has been delegated | 32 |
| the authority to perform health examinations by his or her |
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| supervising physician, or if the treatment
is by prayer or | 2 |
| spiritual means, that of a spiritual adviser or
practitioner of | 3 |
| such person's faith, as a basis for pay during leave after
an | 4 |
| absence of 3 days for personal illness or 30 days for birth, | 5 |
| adoption or
placement for adoption , or as it may deem necessary | 6 |
| in
other cases. If the school board does require a
certificate
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| as a basis for pay during leave of
less than 3 days, the school | 8 |
| board shall pay, from school funds, the
expenses incurred by | 9 |
| the teachers or other employees in obtaining the certificate.
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| If, by reason of any change in the boundaries of school | 11 |
| districts, or by
reason of the creation of a new school | 12 |
| district, the employment of a
teacher is transferred to a new | 13 |
| or different board, the accumulated sick
leave of such teacher | 14 |
| is not thereby lost, but is transferred to such new
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| different district.
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| For purposes of this Section, "immediate family" shall | 17 |
| include parents,
spouse, brothers, sisters, children, | 18 |
| grandparents, grandchildren,
parents-in-law, brothers-in-law, | 19 |
| sisters-in-law, and legal guardians.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-350, eff. 7-28-05.)
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 22 |
| Section 8.30 as
follows:
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| (30 ILCS 805/8.30 new)
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| Sec. 8.30. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | 25 |
| of this
Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 26 |
| implementation of
any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 27 |
| the 94th General Assembly.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 29 |
| becoming law. |
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