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90_HB0684
105 ILCS 5/14-1.09 from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.09
Amends the School Code. Provides that a person who is a
"school psychologist" within the meaning of the School Code
may use the title "licensed school psychologist" and may
offer school psychological services as set forth in a
specified Section of that Code. Authorizes the State Board
of Education, with the advice of the State Teacher
Certification Board, to by rule determine the conditions for
licensure. Effective January 1, 1998.
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
2 14-1.09.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
6 Section 14-1.09 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/14-1.09) (from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.09)
8 Sec. 14-1.09. School psychologist. "School psychologist"
9 means a psychologist who has graduated with a master's or
10 higher degree in psychology or educational psychology from an
11 institution of higher learning which maintains equipment,
12 courses of study, and standards of scholarship approved by
13 the State Board of Education, who has had at least one school
14 year of full-time supervised experience in the delivery of
15 school psychological services of a character approved by the
16 State Superintendent of Education, who has such additional
17 qualifications as may be required by the State Board of
18 Education, and who holds a School Service Personnel
19 Certificate endorsed for school psychology issued pursuant to
20 Section 21-25. Persons so certified may use the title
21 "licensed school psychologist" and may offer school
22 psychological services which are limited to those services
23 set forth in 23 Ill. Adm. Code 226, Special Education,
24 pertaining to children between the ages of 3 to 21,
25 promulgated by the State Board of Education and as set forth
26 in Section 14-1.09.1. School psychologists may make
27 evaluations, recommendations or interventions regarding the
28 placement of children in educational programs or special
29 education classes. However, a licensed school psychologist
30 shall not provide such services outside his or her employment
31 to any student in the district or districts which employ such
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1 school psychologist. The State Board of Education, with the
2 advice of the State Teacher Certification Board, may by rule
3 determine the conditions for licensure, including continuing
4 education requirements, the license fee, and the penalties
5 for those proven to have endangered the health and safety of
6 anyone.
7 (Source: P.A. 85-361.)
8 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect
9 January 1, 1998.