Public Act 102-0275
 
HB0816 EnrolledLRB102 14827 CMG 20180 b



    AN ACT concerning education.

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






 
    Section 5. The School Code is amended  by changing Section 
24-6 as follows:
 

    (105 ILCS 5/24-6)

 
  
    Sec. 24-6. Sick leave. The school boards of all school 
districts, including special charter
districts, but not 
including school districts in municipalities of 500,000
or 
more, shall grant their full-time teachers, and also shall 
grant
such of their other employees as are eligible to 
participate in the
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund under 
the "600-Hour Standard"
established, or under such other 
eligibility participation standard as may
from time to time be 
established, by rules and regulations now or hereafter

promulgated by the Board of that Fund under Section 7-198 of 
the Illinois
Pension Code, as now or hereafter amended, sick 
leave
provisions not less in amount than 10 days at full pay in 
each school year.
If any such teacher or employee does not use 
the full amount of annual leave
thus allowed, the unused 
amount shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum
available 
leave of 180 days at full pay, including the leave of the 
current
year. Sick leave shall be interpreted to mean personal 
illness, quarantine
at home, or serious illness or death in 
the immediate family or household, or
birth, adoption, or 
placement for adoption.
The school board may require a 
certificate from a physician licensed in Illinois to practice 
medicine and surgery in all its branches, a chiropractic 
physician licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987, a 
licensed advanced practice registered nurse, a licensed 
physician assistant, or, if the treatment
is by prayer or 
spiritual means, a spiritual adviser or
practitioner of the 
teacher's or employee's faith as a basis for pay during leave 
after
an absence of 3 days for personal illness or 30 days for 
birth or as the school board may deem necessary in
other cases.  
If the school board does require a
certificate
 as a basis for 
pay during leave of
less than 3 days for personal illness, the 
school board shall pay, from school funds, the
expenses 
incurred by the teachers or other employees in obtaining the 
certificate. For paid leave for adoption or placement for 
adoption, the school board may require that the teacher or 
other employee provide evidence that the formal adoption 
process is underway, and such leave is limited to 30 days 
unless a longer leave has been negotiated with the exclusive 
bargaining representative.

    Sick leave shall also be interpreted to mean birth, 
adoption, placement for adoption, and the acceptance of a 
child in need of foster care. Teachers and other employees to 
which this Section applies are entitled to use up to 30 days of 
paid sick leave because of the birth of a child that is not 
dependent on the need to recover from childbirth. Paid sick 
leave because of the birth of a child may be used absent 
medical certification for up to 30 working school days, which 
days may be used at any time within the 12-month period 
following the birth of the child. The use of up to 30 working 
school days of paid sick leave because of the  birth of a child 
may not be diminished as a result of any intervening period of 
nonworking days or school not being in session, such as for 
summer, winter, or spring break or holidays, that may occur 
during the use of the  paid sick leave. For paid sick leave for 
adoption, placement for adoption,  or the acceptance of a child 
in need of foster care, the school board may require that the 
teacher or other employee to which this Section applies 
provide evidence that the formal adoption process or the 
formal foster care process is underway, and such sick leave is 
limited to 30 days unless a longer leave has been negotiated 
with the exclusive bargaining representative. Paid sick leave 
for adoption, placement for adoption, or the acceptance of a 
child in need of foster care  need not be used consecutively 
once the formal adoption process or the formal foster care 
process is underway, and such sick leave may be used for 
reasons related to the formal adoption process or the formal 
foster care process prior to  taking custody of the child or 
accepting the child in need of foster care, in addition to 
using such sick leave upon taking custody of the child or 
accepting the child in need of foster care.
    If, by reason of any change in the boundaries of school 
districts, or by
reason of the creation of a new school 
district, the employment of a
teacher is transferred to a new 
or different board, the accumulated sick
leave of such teacher 
is not thereby lost, but is transferred to such new
or 
different district.

    For purposes of this Section, "immediate family" shall 
include parents,
spouse, brothers, sisters, children, 
grandparents, grandchildren,
parents-in-law, brothers-in-law, 
sisters-in-law, and legal guardians.

(Source: P.A. 99-173, eff. 7-29-15; 100-513, eff. 1-1-18.)

  
 

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