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92_HB3621

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning State holidays.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The State Commemorative Dates Act is  amended
 5    by adding Section 115 as follows:

 6        (5 ILCS 490/115 new)
 7        Sec.  115.  Cesar Chavez Day.  March 31 of each year is a
 8    legal holiday to be known as Cesar Chavez Day.  When March 31
 9    falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday shall  be
10    held  and  considered the holiday.  No officer or employee of
11    the State may be required to work on Cesar Chavez Day, except
12    those persons necessary for (i) law  enforcement,  (ii)  fire
13    protection,  and  (iii) public health and safety.  The courts
14    of this State shall designate Cesar Chavez  Day  as  a  court
15    holiday.

16        Section 10.  The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
17    amended by changing Section 5-635 as follows:

18        (20 ILCS 5/5-635) (was 20 ILCS 5/18)
19        Sec.  5-635.  Department  office  hours.  Each department
20    shall be open for the transaction of public business at least
21    from 8:30 in the morning until 5:00 in the  evening  of  each
22    day  except  Saturdays, Sundays, Cesar Chavez Day as provided
23    in the State Commemorative  Dates  Act,  and  days  that  may
24    hereafter  be  declared  by  the  Governor to be holidays for
25    State employees.
26    (Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

27        Section 15.  The Office of Banks and Real Estate  Act  is
28    amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
 
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 1        (20 ILCS 3205/3) (from Ch. 17, par. 453)
 2        Sec.  3.   Business  hours.  The Office of Banks and Real
 3    Estate shall be open for transaction of public business  from
 4    8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. or at such other hours as the Governor
 5    may  prescribe  from time to time by executive order, on each
 6    day except Saturdays, Sundays, Cesar Chavez Day  as  provided
 7    in  the  State  Commemorative Dates Act, and days declared by
 8    the Governor to be holidays for State employees.
 9    (Source: P.A. 89-508, eff. 7-3-96.)

10        Section 20.  The  School  Code  is  amended  by  changing
11    Section 24-2 as follows:

12        (105 ILCS 5/24-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-2)
13        Sec.  24-2.  Holidays.  Teachers shall not be required to
14    teach on  Saturdays;  nor  shall  teachers  or  other  school
15    employees,  other than noncertificated school employees whose
16    presence is necessary because of  an  emergency  or  for  the
17    continued  operation  and maintenance of school facilities or
18    property, be required to work on legal school holidays, which
19    are January 1, New Year's Day; the third Monday  in  January,
20    the Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; February 12, the
21    Birthday  of  President  Abraham Lincoln; the first Monday in
22    March (to be  known  as  Casimir  Pulaski's  birthday);  Good
23    Friday;  the  day  designated as Memorial Day by federal law;
24    July 4, Independence Day;  the  first  Monday  in  September,
25    Labor  Day;  the  second  Monday  in  October,  Columbus Day;
26    November 11, Veteran's Day; the Thursday in November commonly
27    called Thanksgiving Day;  and  December  25,  Christmas  Day.
28    School  boards  may  grant special holidays whenever in their
29    judgment such action is  advisable,  except  that  no  school
30    board  or  board  of  education may designate or observe as a
31    special holiday on which teachers or other  school  employees
32    are  not required to work the days on which general elections
 
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 1    for members of the  Illinois  House  of  Representatives  are
 2    held.   No   deduction   shall  be  made  from  the  time  or
 3    compensation of a school employee on account of any legal  or
 4    special holiday.
 5        Commemorative   holidays,   which   recognize   specified
 6    patriotic, civic, cultural or historical persons, activities,
 7    or  events,  are  regular school days. Commemorative holidays
 8    are: January 28 (to be known as  Christa  McAuliffe  Day  and
 9    observed  as  a commemoration of space exploration), February
10    15 (the birthday of Susan B. Anthony), March 29 (Viet Nam War
11    Veterans Day), the school day immediately preceding Veteran's
12    Day (Korean War Veterans Day),  October  1  (Recycling  Day),
13    December  7  (Pearl  Harbor  Veterans  Day)  and  any  day so
14    appointed by the President or Governor.   School  boards  may
15    establish  commemorative  holidays whenever in their judgment
16    such action is advisable. March 31 (Cesar Chavez  Day)  shall
17    be  a  special  commemorative  holiday that school boards are
18    permitted to designate as  a  legal  school  holiday.  School
19    boards  shall  include  instruction  relative to commemorated
20    persons, activities, or events on the  commemorative  holiday
21    or  at any other time during the school year and at any point
22    in  the  curriculum  when  such  instruction  may  be  deemed
23    appropriate. The State Board of Education shall  prepare  and
24    make  available  to  school  boards  instructional  materials
25    relative to commemorated persons, activities, or events which
26    may  be  used  by  school  boards  in  conjunction  with  any
27    instruction   provided  pursuant  to  this  paragraph.  These
28    materials shall include a model curriculum  guide  sufficient
29    for   at   least   one  hour  of  instruction  and  exercises
30    commemorating the history of the farm labor movement  in  the
31    United  States with particular attention to the role of Cesar
32    Chavez in that movement.
33        City of Chicago School District 299 shall observe March 4
34    of each year as a commemorative holiday.  This holiday  shall
 
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 1    be  known  as Mayors' Day which shall be a day to commemorate
 2    and be reminded of the past Chief Executive Officers  of  the
 3    City  of Chicago, and in particular the late Mayor Richard J.
 4    Daley and the late Mayor Harold Washington.  If March 4 falls
 5    on a Saturday or Sunday, Mayors' Day shall be observed on the
 6    following Monday.
 7    (Source: P.A.  89-610,  eff.  8-6-96;  89-622,  eff.  8-9-96;
 8    90-14, eff. 7-1-97.)

 9        Section  25.  The State Universities Civil Service Act is
10    amended by changing Section 45a as follows:

11        (110 ILCS 70/45a) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 38l.1)
12        Sec. 45a.  Except as provided in the second  sentence  of
13    this  Section,  all   officers  and employees subject to this
14    Act, shall have the following days  as  holidays,  for  which
15    they shall receive their usual compensation:  New Year's Day,
16    January  1,  Cesar  Chavez  Day  as  provided  in  the  State
17    Commemorative  Dates  Act, Memorial Day, as determined by the
18    law of the State of Illinois, Independence Day, July 4, Labor
19    Day, the first Monday in  September,  Thanksgiving  Day,  the
20    fourth  Thursday of November, Christmas Day, December 25, and
21    five holidays to be designated by each  college,  university,
22    agency  and community college subject to this Act.  Craft and
23    trade employees subject to this Act shall  be  paid  for  all
24    paid  holidays  included in their area agreement, and will be
25    paid for all  five  holidays  designated  by  their  employer
26    pursuant to this section.
27    (Source: P.A. 79-1186.)

28        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
29    becoming law.

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