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 1        AN ACT with regard to schools.

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

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

 6        (105 ILCS 5/24-6) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-6)
 7        Sec.  24-6.  Sick  leave. The school boards of all school
 8    districts,  including  special  charter  districts,  but  not
 9    including school districts in municipalities  of  500,000  or
10    more,  shall  grant  their full-time teachers, and also shall
11    grant such of  their  other  employees  as  are  eligible  to
12    participate  in  the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund under
13    the "600-Hour Standard"  established,  or  under  such  other
14    eligibility  participation  standard as may from time to time
15    be established, by rules and  regulations  now  or  hereafter
16    promulgated  by the Board of that Fund under Section 7-198 of
17    the Illinois Pension Code, as now or hereafter amended,  sick
18    leave  provisions not less in amount than 10 days at full pay
19    in each school year. If any such teacher or employee does not
20    use the full amount of annual leave thus allowed, the  unused
21    amount  shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum available
22    leave of 350 180 days at full pay, in addition  to  including
23    the   leave   of  the  current  year.  Sick  leave  shall  be
24    interpreted to mean personal illness, quarantine at home,  or
25    serious   illness   or  death  in  the  immediate  family  or
26    household.  The  school  board  may  require  a   physician's
27    certificate,  or  if  the treatment is by prayer or spiritual
28    means, that of a spiritual adviser or  practitioner  of  such
29    person's  faith,  as  a  basis  for pay during leave after an
30    absence of 3 days for personal illness, or  as  it  may  deem
31    necessary in other cases.  If the school board does require a
 
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 1    physician's  certificate  or  a  certificate from a spiritual
 2    healer as a basis for pay during leave of less than  3  days,
 3    the  school  board shall pay, from school funds, the expenses
 4    incurred by the teachers or other employees in obtaining  the
 5    certificate.
 6        If,  by  reason of any change in the boundaries of school
 7    districts, or by reason of  the  creation  of  a  new  school
 8    district, the employment of a teacher is transferred to a new
 9    or  different  board,  the  accumulated  sick  leave  of such
10    teacher is not thereby lost, but is transferred to  such  new
11    or different district.
12        For  purposes  of  this Section, "immediate family" shall
13    include  parents,  spouse,   brothers,   sisters,   children,
14    grandparents, grandchildren, parents-in-law, brothers-in-law,
15    sisters-in-law, and legal guardians.
16    (Source: P.A. 86-838.)

17        Section  90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
18    Section 8.27 as follows:

19        (30 ILCS 805/8.27 new)
20        Sec. 8.27. Exempt mandate.   Notwithstanding  Sections  6
21    and  8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required
22    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
23    amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.