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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 | 14-1.09 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/14-1.09) (from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.09)
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| 7 | Sec. 14-1.09. School psychologist. "School psychologist" | ||||||
| 8 | means a
psychologist who meets the following qualifications: | ||||||
| 9 | (1) The psychologist: | ||||||
| 10 | (A) has graduated with a master's or higher degree | ||||||
| 11 | in
psychology or educational psychology from an | ||||||
| 12 | institution of higher learning that
which maintains | ||||||
| 13 | equipment,
courses of study, and standards of | ||||||
| 14 | scholarship approved by the State Board
of Education, | ||||||
| 15 | who has had at least one school year of full-time | ||||||
| 16 | supervised
experience in the delivery of school | ||||||
| 17 | psychological services of a character
approved by the | ||||||
| 18 | State
Superintendent of Education, and who has such | ||||||
| 19 | additional qualifications
as may be required
by the | ||||||
| 20 | State Board of Education; or , and | ||||||
| 21 | (B) holds a valid Nationally Certified School | ||||||
| 22 | Psychologist (NCSP) certificate and has such | ||||||
| 23 | additional qualifications as may be required by the | ||||||
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| 1 | State Board of Education. | ||||||
| 2 | (2) The psychologist who holds a Professional Educator | ||||||
| 3 | License with a school psychologist endorsement School | ||||||
| 4 | Service Personnel
Certificate endorsed for school | ||||||
| 5 | psychology issued pursuant to Section 21B-25 of this Code
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| 6 | 21-25.
Persons so licensed certified may use the title | ||||||
| 7 | "school psychologist" and may
offer school psychological | ||||||
| 8 | services which are limited to those services set
forth in | ||||||
| 9 | 23 Ill. Adm. Code 226, Special Education, pertaining to | ||||||
| 10 | children
between the ages of 3 to 21, promulgated by the | ||||||
| 11 | State Board of Education.
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| 12 | School psychologists may make evaluations, recommendations | ||||||
| 13 | or interventions
regarding the placement of children in | ||||||
| 14 | educational programs or special
education classes. However, a | ||||||
| 15 | school psychologist shall not provide such
services outside his | ||||||
| 16 | or her employment to any student in the district or
districts | ||||||
| 17 | which employ such school psychologist.
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| 18 | (Source: P.A. 85-361.)
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| 19 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 20 | becoming law.
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