Full Text of SB2137 99th General Assembly
SB2137sam001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Julie A. Morrison Filed: 3/14/2016
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2137
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2137 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 3-11 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/3-11) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-11)
| 7 | | Sec. 3-11. Institutes or inservice training workshops. In | 8 | | counties
of less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, the regional | 9 | | superintendent may
arrange for or conduct district, regional, | 10 | | or county institutes, or
equivalent professional educational | 11 | | experiences, not more than 4 days
annually. Of those 4 days, 2 | 12 | | days may be used as a teacher's and educational support | 13 | | personnel workshop,
when approved by the regional | 14 | | superintendent, up to 2 days may be used
for conducting | 15 | | parent-teacher conferences, or up to 2 days may be utilized
as | 16 | | parental institute days as provided in Section 10-22.18d. |
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| 1 | | Educational support personnel may be exempt from a workshop if | 2 | | the workshop is not relevant to the work they do. A school
| 3 | | district may use one of its 4 institute days on the last day of | 4 | | the school
term. "Institute" or "Professional educational | 5 | | experiences" means any
educational gathering, demonstration of | 6 | | methods of instruction,
visitation of schools or other | 7 | | institutions or facilities, sexual
abuse and sexual assault | 8 | | awareness seminar, or training in First Aid (which may include | 9 | | cardiopulmonary resuscitation or defibrillator training) held | 10 | | or approved
by the regional superintendent and declared by him | 11 | | to be an institute day,
or parent-teacher conferences. With the | 12 | | concurrence of the State
Superintendent of Education, he or she | 13 | | may employ such assistance as is
necessary
to conduct the | 14 | | institute. Two or more adjoining counties may jointly hold
an | 15 | | institute. Institute instruction shall be free to holders of
| 16 | | licenses good in the county or counties holding the institute | 17 | | and to
those who have paid an examination fee and failed to | 18 | | receive a license.
| 19 | | In counties of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, the regional
| 20 | | superintendent may arrange for or conduct district, regional, | 21 | | or county
inservice training workshops, or equivalent | 22 | | professional educational
experiences, not more than 4 days | 23 | | annually. Of those 4 days, 2
days may be used as a teacher's | 24 | | and educational support
personnel workshop, when approved by | 25 | | the regional
superintendent, up to 2 days may
be used for | 26 | | conducting parent-teacher conferences, or up to 2 days may be
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| 1 | | utilized as parental institute days as provided in Section | 2 | | 10-22.18d. Educational support personnel may be exempt from a | 3 | | workshop if
the workshop is not relevant to the work they do. A
| 4 | | school district may use one of those 4 days on the last day of | 5 | | the school
term. "Inservice Training Workshops" or | 6 | | "Professional educational
experiences" means any educational | 7 | | gathering, demonstration of methods of
instruction, visitation | 8 | | of schools or other institutions or
facilities, sexual abuse | 9 | | and sexual assault awareness seminar, or training in First Aid | 10 | | (which may include cardiopulmonary resuscitation or | 11 | | defibrillator training) held
or approved by the regional | 12 | | superintendent and declared by him to be
an inservice training | 13 | | workshop, or parent-teacher conferences. With the
concurrence | 14 | | of the State Superintendent of Education, he may employ such
| 15 | | assistance as is necessary to conduct the inservice training | 16 | | workshop.
With the approval of the regional superintendent, 2 | 17 | | or more adjoining
districts may jointly hold an inservice | 18 | | training workshop. In addition,
with the approval of the | 19 | | regional superintendent, one district may conduct
its own | 20 | | inservice training workshop with subject matter consultants
| 21 | | requested from the county, State or any State institution of | 22 | | higher learning.
| 23 | | Such teachers institutes as referred to in this Section may | 24 | | be held
on consecutive or separate days at the option of the | 25 | | regional
superintendent having jurisdiction thereof.
| 26 | | Whenever reference is made in this Act to "teachers |
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| 1 | | institute", it
shall be construed to include the inservice | 2 | | training workshops or
equivalent professional educational | 3 | | experiences provided for in this Section.
| 4 | | Any institute advisory committee existing on April 1, 1995, | 5 | | is dissolved
and the duties and responsibilities of the | 6 | | institute advisory committee are
assumed by the regional office | 7 | | of education advisory board.
| 8 | | Districts providing inservice training programs shall | 9 | | constitute inservice
committees, 1/2 of which shall be | 10 | | teachers, 1/4 school service personnel
and 1/4 administrators | 11 | | to establish program content and schedules.
| 12 | | The teachers institutes shall include teacher training | 13 | | committed to (i)
peer counseling programs and other | 14 | | anti-violence and conflict
resolution programs, including | 15 | | without limitation programs for preventing at
risk students | 16 | | from committing violent acts, and (ii) educator ethics and | 17 | | teacher-student conduct. Beginning with the 2009-2010 school | 18 | | year, the teachers institutes shall include instruction on | 19 | | prevalent student chronic health conditions. Beginning with | 20 | | the 2016-2017 school year, the teachers institutes shall | 21 | | include, at least once every 2 years, instruction on the | 22 | | federal Americans with Disabilities Act as it pertains to the | 23 | | school environment.
| 24 | | (Source: P.A. 99-30, eff. 7-10-15.)
| 25 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| 1 | | becoming law.".
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