96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB0498

 

Introduced 2/4/2009, by Rep. Harry R. Ramey, Jr.

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/24-6   from Ch. 122, par. 24-6
30 ILCS 805/8.33 new

    Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning sick leave for certain employees of school districts other than Chicago, provides that if an employee other than a teacher does not use the full amount of annual leave allowed, the unused amount shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum available leave of 240 (instead of 180) days at full pay, including the leave of the current year. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.


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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 24-6 as follows:
 
6     (105 ILCS 5/24-6)  (from Ch. 122, par. 24-6)
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
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 If an employee other than a teacher under this Section does not

 

 

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1 use the full amount of annual leave thus allowed, the unused
2 amount shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum available
3 leave of 240 days at full pay, including the leave of the
4 current year. Sick leave shall be interpreted to mean personal
5 illness, quarantine at home, serious illness or death in the
6 immediate family or household, or birth, adoption, or placement
7 for adoption. The school board may require a certificate from a
8 physician licensed in Illinois to practice medicine and surgery
9 in all its branches, an advanced practice nurse who has a
10 written collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician
11 that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to perform health
12 examinations, or a physician assistant who has been delegated
13 the authority to perform health examinations by his or her
14 supervising physician, or if the treatment is by prayer or
15 spiritual means, that of a spiritual adviser or practitioner of
16 such person's faith, as a basis for pay during leave after an
17 absence of 3 days for personal illness, or as it may deem
18 necessary in other cases. If the school board does require a
19 certificate as a basis for pay during leave of less than 3
20 days, the school board shall pay, from school funds, the
21 expenses incurred by the teachers or other employees in
22 obtaining the certificate.
23     If, by reason of any change in the boundaries of school
24 districts, or by reason of the creation of a new school
25 district, the employment of a teacher is transferred to a new
26 or different board, the accumulated sick leave of such teacher

 

 

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1 is not thereby lost, but is transferred to such new or
2 different district.
3     For purposes of this Section, "immediate family" shall
4 include parents, spouse, brothers, sisters, children,
5 grandparents, grandchildren, parents-in-law, brothers-in-law,
6 sisters-in-law, and legal guardians.
7 (Source: P.A. 94-350, eff. 7-28-05; 95-151, eff. 8-14-07.)
 
8     Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
9 Section 8.33 as follows:
 
10     (30 ILCS 805/8.33 new)
11     Sec. 8.33. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
12 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
13 implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
14 the 96th General Assembly.