SB2689eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB2689 Engrossed LRB095 05558 NHT 25648 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) (from Ch. 122, par. 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. If an employee other than a teacher under this Section 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 240 days at full pay, including the leave of the current year. If an employee other than a teacher under this Section is subject to a reduction in force, the employing district shall maintain on its records all accumulated sick leave days, which must be recredited to the employee at the time of recall. If the employee is not recalled, then the district shall pay the employee, at the expiration of the recall period, the cash value for all accumulated sick leave at the daily rate of pay at the time of the layoff. Sick leave shall be interpreted to mean personal illness, quarantine at home, 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, an advanced practice nurse who has a written collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to perform health examinations, or a physician assistant who has been delegated the authority to perform health examinations by his or her supervising physician, or if the treatment is by prayer or spiritual means, that of a spiritual adviser or practitioner of such person's faith, as a basis for pay during leave after an absence of 3 days for personal illness, or as it 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, the school board shall pay, from school funds, the expenses incurred by the teachers or other employees in obtaining the certificate.

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. 94-350, eff. 7-28-05; 95-151, eff. 8-14-07.)

Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding Section 8.32 as follows:

(30 ILCS 805/8.32 new)

Sec. 8.32. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly.