94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB2607

 

Introduced 1/20/2006, by Sen. Todd Sieben - Dan Cronin

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/2-3.103   from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.103
30 ILCS 805/8.30 new

    Amends the School Code. Requires a school district to report, on its salary and benefits survey form, the amount of compensation a certificated teacher who ends employment with the school district receives that is additional to the teacher's regular salary, excluding individual compensation resulting from extra-curricular duties and employment beyond the regular school year. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning education.
 
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 Section
5 2-3.103 as follows:
 
6     (105 ILCS 5/2-3.103)  (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.103)
7     Sec. 2-3.103. Salary and benefit survey. For each school
8 year commencing on or after January 1, 1992, the State Board of
9 Education shall conduct, in each school district, a school
10 district salary and benefits survey covering the district's
11 certificated and educational support personnel.
12     A survey form shall be developed and furnished by the State
13 Board of Education to each school district within 30 days after
14 the commencement of the school year covered by the survey, and
15 each school district shall complete and return the survey form
16 to the State Board of Education within the succeeding 30 day
17 period.
18     The State Board of Education shall compile, by April 30 of
19 the school year covered by the survey, a statewide salary and
20 benefit survey report based upon the survey forms completed and
21 returned for that school year by the individual school
22 districts as required by this Section, and shall make the
23 survey report available to all school districts and to all
24 "employee organizations" as defined in Section 2 of the
25 Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act.
26     The data required to be reported by each school district on
27 the salary and benefits survey form developed and furnished
28 under this Section for the school year covered by the survey
29 shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
30         (1) the district's estimated fall enrollment;
31         (2) with respect to both its certificated and
32     educational support personnel employees:

 

 

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1             (A) whether the district has a salary schedule,
2         salary policy but no salary schedule, or no salary
3         policy and no salary schedule;
4             (B) when each such salary schedule or policy of the
5         district was or will be adopted;
6             (C) whether there is a negotiated agreement
7         between the school board and any teacher, educational
8         support personnel or other employee organization and,
9         if so, the affiliation of the local of such
10         organization, together with the month and year of
11         expiration of the negotiated agreement and whether it
12         contains a fair share provision; and if there is no
13         such negotiated agreement but the district does have a
14         salary schedule or policy, a brief explanation of the
15         manner in which each such salary schedule or policy was
16         developed prior to its adoption by the school board,
17         including a statement of whether any meetings between
18         the school board and the superintendent leading up to
19         adoption of the salary schedule or policy were based
20         upon, or were conducted without any discussions
21         between the superintendent and the affected teachers,
22         educational support personnel or other employees;
23             (D) whether the district's salary program,
24         policies or provisions are based upon merit or
25         performance evaluation of individual teachers,
26         educational support personnel or other employees, and
27         whether they include: severance pay provisions; early
28         retirement incentives; sick leave bank provisions;
29         sick leave accumulation provisions and, if so, to how
30         many days; personal, business or emergency leave with
31         pay and, if so, the number of days; or direct
32         reimbursement in whole or in part for expenses, such as
33         tuition and materials, incurred in acquiring
34         additional college credit;
35             (E) whether school board paid or tax sheltered
36         retirement contributions are included in any existing

 

 

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1         salary schedule or policy of the school district; what
2         percent (if any) of the salary of each different
3         certified and educational support personnel employee
4         classification (using the employee salary which
5         reflects the highest regularly scheduled step in that
6         classification on the salary schedule or policy of the
7         district) is school board paid to an employee
8         retirement system; the highest scheduled salary and
9         the level of education or training required to reach
10         the highest scheduled salary in each certified and
11         educational support personnel employee classification;
12         using annual salaries from the school board's salary
13         schedule or policy for each certified and educational
14         support personnel employee classification (and
15         excluding from such salaries items of individual
16         compensation resulting from extra-curricular duties,
17         employment beyond the regular school year and
18         longevity service pay, but including additional
19         compensation such as grants and cost of living bonuses
20         that are received by all employees in a classification
21         or by all employees in a classification who are at the
22         maximum experience level), the beginning, maximum and
23         specified intermediate salaries reported to an
24         employee retirement system (including school board
25         paid or tax sheltered retirement contributions, but
26         excluding fringe benefits) for each educational or
27         training category within each certified and
28         educational support personnel employee classification;
29         and the completed years of experience required to reach
30         such maximum regularly scheduled and highest scheduled
31         salaries;
32             (F) whether the school district provides longevity
33         pay beyond the last annual regular salary increase
34         available under the district's salary schedule or
35         policy; and if so, the maximum earnings with longevity
36         for each educational or training category specified by

 

 

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1         the State Board of Education in its survey form (based
2         on salary reported to an employee's retirement system,
3         including school board paid and tax sheltered
4         retirement contributions, but excluding fringe
5         benefits, and with maximum longevity step numbers and
6         completed years of experience computed as provided in
7         the survey form);
8             (G) for each dental, disability, hospitalization,
9         life, prescription or vision insurance plan, cafeteria
10         plan or other fringe benefit plan sponsored by the
11         school board: (i) a statement of whether such plan is
12         available to full time teachers or other certificated
13         personnel covered by a district salary schedule or
14         policy, whether such plan is available to full time
15         educational support personnel covered by a district
16         salary schedule or policy, and whether all full time
17         employees to whom coverage under such plan is available
18         are entitled to receive the same benefits under that
19         plan; and (ii) the total annual cost of coverage under
20         that plan for a covered full time employee who is at
21         the highest regularly scheduled step on the salary
22         schedule or policy of the district applicable to such
23         employee, the percent of that total annual cost paid by
24         the school board, the total annual cost of coverage
25         under that plan for the family of that employee, and
26         the percent of that total annual cost for family
27         coverage paid by the school board; and .
28             (H) the amount of compensation a certificated
29         teacher who ends employment with the school district
30         receives that is additional to the teacher's regular
31         salary, excluding individual compensation resulting
32         from extra-curricular duties and employment beyond the
33         regular school year.
34     In addition, each school district shall attach to the
35 completed survey form which it returns to the State Board of
36 Education as required by this Section a copy of each salary

 

 

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1 schedule, salary policy and negotiated agreement which is
2 identified or otherwise referred to in the completed survey
3 form.
4 (Source: P.A. 87-547; 87-895.)
 
5     Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
6 Section 8.30 as follows:
 
7     (30 ILCS 805/8.30 new)
8     Sec. 8.30. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
9 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
10 implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
11 the 94th General Assembly.
 
12     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
13 becoming law.