Full Text of HB6937 93rd General Assembly
HB6937 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 HB6937
Introduced 02/09/04, by Lou Lang SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/2-3.11 |
from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.11 |
105 ILCS 5/2-3.11b |
from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.11b |
105 ILCS 5/2-3.11c |
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105 ILCS 5/2-3.103 |
from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.103 |
105 ILCS 5/10-22.40 |
from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.40 |
105 ILCS 5/2-3.10 rep. |
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Amends the School Code. Provides that in the State Board of Education's latch key report, the Board shall report the total number of pupils participating in before and after school programs (instead of the number participating by school district). Provides that the Board's teacher supply and demand report shall be made every 3 years on or before February 1 (instead of annually on or before January 1). Removes a provision that requires the Board to conduct a school district salary and benefits survey covering each district's educational support personnel. Removes a provision that requires interscholastic athletic associations to submit an annual report to the Board dealing with trends in female participation in athletic competition. Repeals a Section requiring the Board to visit charitable educational institutions. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 5 |
| 2-3.11, 2-3.11b, 2-3.11c, 2-3.103, and 10-22.40 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.11) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.11)
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| Sec. 2-3.11. Report to Governor and General Assembly. To | 8 |
| report to the
Governor and General Assembly annually on or | 9 |
| before January 14 the
condition of the schools
of the State for | 10 |
| the preceding year, ending on June 30.
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| Such annual report shall contain reports of the State | 12 |
| Teacher
Certification Board; the schools of the State | 13 |
| charitable
institutions; reports on driver education, special | 14 |
| education,
and transportation; and for such year the annual | 15 |
| statistical
reports of the State Board of Education, including | 16 |
| the number
and kinds of school districts; number of school | 17 |
| attendance
centers; number of men and women teachers; | 18 |
| enrollment by
grades; total enrollment; total days attendance; | 19 |
| total days
absence; average daily attendance; number of | 20 |
| elementary and
secondary school graduates;
assessed valuation; | 21 |
| tax levies
and tax rates for various purposes; amount of | 22 |
| teachers' orders,
anticipation warrants, and bonds | 23 |
| outstanding; and number of men
and women teachers and total | 24 |
| enrollment of private schools.
The report shall give for all | 25 |
| school districts receipts from
all sources and expenditures for | 26 |
| all purposes for each fund;
the total operating expense and the | 27 |
| per capita cost; federal
and state aids and reimbursements; new | 28 |
| school buildings, and
recognized schools; together with such | 29 |
| other information and
suggestions as the State Board of | 30 |
| Education may deem important
in relation to the schools and | 31 |
| school laws and the means of
promoting education throughout the | 32 |
| state.
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| (Source: P.A. 84-1308; 84-1424.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.11b) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.11b)
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| Sec. 2-3.11b. Latch key reports. To report to the General | 4 |
| Assembly and
Governor annually on or before January 14, the | 5 |
| following information for
the preceding year ending on June 30: | 6 |
| the general nature and manner of
operation of before and after | 7 |
| school programs conducted for pupils by the
public schools in | 8 |
| the several school districts of the State; a brief
description | 9 |
| of the types of programs offered and the most common age and
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| grade range of pupil benefited thereby; the source and | 11 |
| sufficiency of the
funding available to and used by school | 12 |
| districts to conduct and operate
such programs; the number of | 13 |
| pupils participating , by school district , in
before and after | 14 |
| school programs offered by each such district ; and the
number | 15 |
| of certified employees, the number of uncertified employees and | 16 |
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number of independent contractors used by districts
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| such district to conduct
and operate its before and after | 18 |
| school programs.
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| (Source: P.A. 84-1419.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.11c)
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| Sec. 2-3.11c. Teacher supply and demand report. To report | 22 |
| every 3 years
annually , on or
before February
January 1,
on the | 23 |
| relative supply and demand for
education staff of the public | 24 |
| schools
to the Governor, to the General Assembly, and to | 25 |
| institutions
of higher education that prepare teachers, | 26 |
| administrators, school service
personnel, other certificated | 27 |
| individuals, and other professionals employed by
school | 28 |
| districts or joint agreements. The report shall contain the | 29 |
| following
information:
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| (1) the relative supply and demand for teachers, | 31 |
| administrators, and
other certificated and | 32 |
| non-certificated personnel by field, content area, and
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| levels;
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| (2) State and regional analyses of fields, content |
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| areas, and levels with
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over-supply or under-supply of | 2 |
| educators; and
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| (3) projections of likely high demand
and low demand | 4 |
| for educators, in a manner sufficient to advise the public,
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| individuals, and institutions regarding career | 6 |
| opportunities in education.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.103) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.103)
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| Sec. 2-3.103. Salary and benefit survey. For each
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| year commencing on or after January 1, 1992, the State Board
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| Education shall conduct, in each school district, a school | 12 |
| district
salary and benefits survey covering the district's | 13 |
| certificated and
educational support personnel.
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| A survey form shall be developed and furnished by the State | 15 |
| Board of
Education to each school district within 30 days after | 16 |
| the commencement of
the school year covered by the survey, and | 17 |
| each school district shall
complete and return the survey form | 18 |
| to the State Board of Education within
the succeeding 30 day | 19 |
| period.
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| The State Board of Education shall compile, by April 30 of | 21 |
| the school
year covered by the survey, a statewide salary and | 22 |
| benefit survey report
based upon the survey forms completed and | 23 |
| returned for that school year by
the individual school | 24 |
| districts as required by this Section, and shall make
the | 25 |
| survey report available to all school districts and to all | 26 |
| "employee
organizations" as defined in Section 2 of the | 27 |
| Illinois Educational Labor
Relations Act.
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| The data required to be reported by each school district on | 29 |
| the salary
and benefits survey form developed and furnished | 30 |
| under this Section for the
school year covered by the survey | 31 |
| shall include, but shall not be limited
to, the following:
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| (1) the district's estimated fall enrollment;
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| (2) with respect to both its certificated and | 34 |
| educational support personnel employees:
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| (A) whether the district has a salary schedule, |
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| salary policy but no
salary schedule, or no salary | 2 |
| policy and no salary schedule;
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| (B) when each such salary schedule or policy of the | 4 |
| district was or will be adopted;
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| (C) whether there is a negotiated agreement | 6 |
| between the school board
and any teacher ,educational | 7 |
| support personnel or other employee
organization and, | 8 |
| if so, the affiliation of the local of such | 9 |
| organization,
together with the month and year of | 10 |
| expiration of the negotiated agreement
and whether it | 11 |
| contains a fair share provision; and if there is no | 12 |
| such
negotiated agreement but the district does have a | 13 |
| salary schedule or
policy, a brief explanation of the | 14 |
| manner in which each such salary
schedule or policy was | 15 |
| developed prior to its adoption by the school board,
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| including a statement of whether any meetings between | 17 |
| the school board and
the superintendent leading up to | 18 |
| adoption of the salary schedule or policy
were based | 19 |
| upon, or were conducted without any discussions | 20 |
| between the
superintendent and the affected teachers , | 21 |
| educational support personnel or
other employees ;
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| (D) whether the district's salary program, | 23 |
| policies or provisions are
based upon merit or | 24 |
| performance evaluation of individual teachers ,
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| educational support personnel or other employees, and | 26 |
| whether they include:
severance pay provisions; early | 27 |
| retirement incentives; sick leave bank
provisions; | 28 |
| sick leave accumulation provisions and, if so, to how | 29 |
| many
days; personal, business or emergency leave with | 30 |
| pay and, if so, the number
of days; or direct | 31 |
| reimbursement in whole or in part for expenses, such as
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| tuition and materials, incurred in acquiring | 33 |
| additional college credit;
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| (E) whether school board paid or tax sheltered | 35 |
| retirement contributions
are included in any existing | 36 |
| salary schedule or policy of the school
district; what |
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| percent (if any) of the salary of each different | 2 |
| certified
and educational support personnel employee | 3 |
| classification (using the
employee salary which | 4 |
| reflects the highest regularly scheduled step in that
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| classification on the salary schedule or policy of the | 6 |
| district) is school
board paid to an employee | 7 |
| retirement system; the highest scheduled salary
and | 8 |
| the level of education or training required to reach | 9 |
| the highest
scheduled salary in each certified and | 10 |
| educational support personnel
employee classification; | 11 |
| using annual salaries from the school board's
salary | 12 |
| schedule or policy for each certified and educational | 13 |
| support
personnel employee classification (and | 14 |
| excluding from such salaries items
of individual | 15 |
| compensation resulting from extra-curricular duties,
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| employment beyond the regular school year and | 17 |
| longevity service pay, but
including additional | 18 |
| compensation such as grants and cost of living bonuses
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| that are received by all employees in a classification | 20 |
| or by all employees
in a classification who are at the | 21 |
| maximum experience level), the
beginning, maximum and | 22 |
| specified intermediate salaries reported to an
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| employee retirement system (including school board | 24 |
| paid or tax sheltered
retirement contributions, but | 25 |
| excluding fringe benefits) for
each educational or | 26 |
| training category within each certified and | 27 |
| educational
support personnel employee classification; | 28 |
| and the completed years of
experience required to reach | 29 |
| such maximum regularly scheduled and highest
scheduled | 30 |
| salaries;
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| (F) whether the school district provides longevity | 32 |
| pay beyond the last
annual regular salary increase | 33 |
| available under the district's salary
schedule or | 34 |
| policy; and if so, the maximum earnings with longevity | 35 |
| for each
educational or training category specified by | 36 |
| the State Board of Education
in its survey form (based |
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| on salary reported to an employee's retirement
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| including school board paid and tax sheltered | 3 |
| retirement
contributions, but excluding fringe | 4 |
| benefits, and with maximum longevity
step numbers and | 5 |
| completed years of experience computed as provided in
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| the survey form);
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| (G) for each dental, disability, hospitalization, | 8 |
| life, prescription or
vision insurance plan, cafeteria | 9 |
| plan or other fringe benefit plan
sponsored by the | 10 |
| school board: (i) a statement of whether such plan is
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| available to full time teachers or other certificated | 12 |
| personnel covered by
a district salary schedule or | 13 |
| policy , whether such plan is available to
full time | 14 |
| educational support personnel covered by a district | 15 |
| salary
schedule or policy, and whether all full time | 16 |
| employees to whom coverage
under such plan is available | 17 |
| are entitled to receive the same benefits
under that | 18 |
| plan; and (ii) the total annual cost of coverage under | 19 |
| that plan
for a covered full time employee who is at | 20 |
| the highest regularly
scheduled step on the salary | 21 |
| schedule or policy of the district applicable
to such | 22 |
| employee, the percent of that total annual cost paid by | 23 |
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school board, the total annual cost of coverage | 24 |
| under that plan for the
family of that employee, and | 25 |
| the percent of that total annual cost for
family | 26 |
| coverage paid by the school board.
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| In addition, each school district shall attach to the | 28 |
| completed
survey form which it returns to the State Board of | 29 |
| Education as required by
this Section a copy of each salary | 30 |
| schedule, salary policy and negotiated
agreement which is | 31 |
| identified or otherwise referred to in the completed survey | 32 |
| form.
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| (Source: P.A. 87-547; 87-895.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/10-22.40) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.40)
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| Sec. 10-22.40. Membership dues. To pay State and national |
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| association
membership dues to school associations which | 2 |
| benefit students by participation
or accreditation. Any | 3 |
| association subject to Article 23 of this Act must
be in | 4 |
| current compliance with the reporting requirements of Section | 5 |
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in order to qualify as a recipient of membership dues | 6 |
| under this Section.
No dues may be paid to any association | 7 |
| which has as one of its purposes
providing for athletic and | 8 |
| other competition among schools and students
unless that | 9 |
| association:
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| A. permits a post audit by the Auditor General under the | 11 |
| Illinois
State Auditing Act;
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| B. (blank); and
submits an annual report to the State Board | 13 |
| of Education dealing
with trends in female participation in | 14 |
| athletic competition, including the
numbers of female and male | 15 |
| participants from each member school and details
on programs by | 16 |
| the association to increase female participation; and
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| C. is either subject to, or voluntarily complies with, the
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| public access provisions set forth for State agencies in | 19 |
| Sections 3 and 4
of The State Records Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 84-1308.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.10 rep.)
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| Section 10. The School Code is amended by repealing Section | 23 |
| 2-3.10.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 25 |
| becoming law.
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