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    AN ACT concerning schools. 

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


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


 



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    (105 ILCS 5/24-6)  (from Ch. 122, par. 24-6)


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

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promulgated by the Board of that Fund under Section 7-198 of 
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the Illinois
Pension Code, as now or hereafter amended, sick 
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leave
provisions not less in amount than 10 days at full pay in 
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each school year.
If any such teacher or employee does not use 
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the full amount of annual leave
thus allowed, the unused amount 
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shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum
available leave of 
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180 days at full pay, including the leave of the current
year. 
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Sick leave shall be interpreted to mean personal illness, 
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quarantine
at home, or serious illness or death in the 
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immediate family or household, or
birth, adoption or placement 
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for adoption, or foster care of a child.
The school board may 
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require a certificate from a physician licensed in Illinois to 
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practice medicine and surgery in all its branches, an advanced 
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practice nurse who has a written collaborative agreement with a 
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collaborating physician that authorizes the advanced practice 
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nurse to perform health examinations, or a physician assistant 
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who has been delegated the authority to perform health 
 


 






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examinations by his or her supervising physician, or if the 
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treatment
is by prayer or spiritual means, that of a spiritual 
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adviser or
practitioner of such person's faith, as a basis for 
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pay during leave after
an absence of 3 days for personal 
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illness or 30 days for birth, adoption or
placement for 
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adoption, or foster care of a child, or as it may deem 
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necessary in
other cases.  If the school board does require a

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certificate
 as a basis for pay during leave of
less than 3 
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days, the school board shall pay, from school funds, the

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expenses incurred by the teachers or other employees in 
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obtaining the certificate.

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    If, by reason of any change in the boundaries of school 
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districts, or by
reason of the creation of a new school 
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district, the employment of a
teacher is transferred to a new 
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or different board, the accumulated sick
leave of such teacher 
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is not thereby lost, but is transferred to such new
or 
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different district.

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

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(Source: P.A. 94-350, eff. 7-28-05.)


 
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    Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding 
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Section 8.30 as
follows:


 
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    (30 ILCS 805/8.30 new)

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    Sec. 8.30. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 
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of this
Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the 
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implementation of
any mandate created by this amendatory Act of 
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the 94th General Assembly.


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