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1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 24-6 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/24-6) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-6)
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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 the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | "600-Hour Standard"
established, or under such other | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | eligibility participation standard as may
from time to time be | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | established, by rules and regulations now or hereafter
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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 in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | each school year.
If any such teacher or employee does not use | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | the full amount of annual leave
thus allowed, the unused amount | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum
available leave of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | 180 days at full pay, including the leave of the current
year. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Sick leave shall be interpreted to mean personal illness, |
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1 | quarantine
at home, serious illness or death in the immediate | ||||||
2 | family or household, or
birth, adoption, or placement for | ||||||
3 | adoption.
The school board may require a certificate from a | ||||||
4 | physician licensed in Illinois to practice medicine and surgery | ||||||
5 | in all its branches, an advanced practice nurse who has a | ||||||
6 | written collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician | ||||||
7 | that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to perform health | ||||||
8 | examinations, or a physician assistant who has been delegated | ||||||
9 | the authority to perform health examinations by his or her | ||||||
10 | supervising physician, or , if the treatment
is by prayer or | ||||||
11 | spiritual means, that of a spiritual adviser or
practitioner of | ||||||
12 | the teacher's or employee's such person's faith , as a basis for | ||||||
13 | pay during leave after
an absence of 3 days for personal | ||||||
14 | illness or 30 days for birth , or as the school board it may | ||||||
15 | deem necessary in
other cases. If the school board does require | ||||||
16 | a
certificate
as a basis for pay during leave of
less than 3 | ||||||
17 | days for personal illness , the school board shall pay, from | ||||||
18 | school funds, the
expenses incurred by the teachers or other | ||||||
19 | employees in obtaining the certificate. For paid leave for | ||||||
20 | adoption or placement for adoption, the school board may | ||||||
21 | require that the teacher or other employee provide evidence | ||||||
22 | that the formal adoption process is underway, and such leave is | ||||||
23 | limited to 30 days unless a longer leave has been negotiated | ||||||
24 | with the exclusive bargaining representative.
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25 | If, by reason of any change in the boundaries of school | ||||||
26 | districts, or by
reason of the creation of a new school |
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1 | district, the employment of a
teacher is transferred to a new | ||||||
2 | or different board, the accumulated sick
leave of such teacher | ||||||
3 | is not thereby lost, but is transferred to such new
or | ||||||
4 | different district.
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5 | For purposes of this Section, "immediate family" shall | ||||||
6 | include parents,
spouse, brothers, sisters, children, | ||||||
7 | grandparents, grandchildren,
parents-in-law, brothers-in-law, | ||||||
8 | sisters-in-law, and legal guardians.
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9 | (Source: P.A. 94-350, eff. 7-28-05; 95-151, eff. 8-14-07.)
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10 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
11 | becoming law.
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