Elementary & Secondary Education Committee

Filed: 3/11/2009

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1190

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1190 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
5 14-1.10 and 14-13.01 as follows:
 
6     (105 ILCS 5/14-1.10)  (from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.10)
7     Sec. 14-1.10. Qualified Professional worker. "Qualified
8 Professional worker" means a trained specialist and includes a
9 behavior analyst, certificated school nurse, professional
10 consultant, registered therapist, school nurse intern, school
11 counselor, school counselor intern, school psychologist,
12 school psychologist intern, school social worker, school
13 social worker intern, special administrator or supervisor
14 giving full time to special education, speech language
15 pathologist, speech language pathologist intern, and teacher
16 of students with IEPs who meets the requirements of this

 

 

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1 Article, who has the required special training in the
2 understandings, techniques, and special instructional
3 strategies for children with disabilities and who delivers
4 services to students with IEPs, and any other trained
5 specialist set forth by the State Board of Education in rules. ,
6 and is limited to speech correctionist, school social worker,
7 school counselor, school psychologist, psychologist intern,
8 school nurse intern, school social worker intern, school
9 counselor intern, certificated school nurse, special
10 administrator intern, registered therapist, professional
11 consultant, special administrator or supervisor giving full
12 time to special education, behavior analyst, and teacher of any
13 class or program defined in this Article who meets the
14 requirements of this Article, who has the required special
15 training in the understandings, techniques, and special
16 methods of instruction for children who because of their
17 disabling conditions are placed in any program provided for in
18 this Article, and who works in such program.
19 (Source: P.A. 94-948, eff. 1-1-07; 95-363, eff. 8-23-07.)
 
20     (105 ILCS 5/14-13.01)  (from Ch. 122, par. 14-13.01)
21     Sec. 14-13.01. Reimbursement payable by State; amounts for
22 personnel and transportation Amounts. Reimbursement for
23 furnishing special educational facilities in a recognized
24 school to the type of children defined in Section 14-1.02 shall
25 be paid to the school districts in accordance with Section

 

 

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1 14-12.01 for each school year ending June 30 by the State
2 Comptroller out of any money in the treasury appropriated for
3 such purposes on the presentation of vouchers by the State
4 Board of Education.
5     The reimbursement shall be limited to funds expended for
6 construction and maintenance of special education facilities
7 designed and utilized to house instructional programs,
8 diagnostic services, other special education services for
9 children with disabilities and reimbursement as provided in
10 Section 14-13.01. There shall be no reimbursement for
11 construction and maintenance of any administrative facility
12 separated from special education facilities designed and
13 utilized to house instructional programs, diagnostic services
14 and other special education services for children with
15 disabilities.
16     (a) For staff working on behalf of children who have not
17 been identified as eligible for special education and for
18 eligible children with physical disabilities, including all
19 eligible children whose placement has been determined under
20 Section 14-8.02 in hospital or home instruction, 1/2 of the
21 teacher's salary but not more than $1,000 annually per child or
22 $8,000 per teacher for the 1985-1986 school year through the
23 2005-2006 school year and $1,000 per child or $9,000 per
24 teacher for the 2006-2007 school year and for each school year
25 thereafter, whichever is less. To qualify for home or hospital
26 instruction, a child must, due to a medical condition, be

 

 

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1 unable to attend school, and instead must be instructed at home
2 or in the hospital, for a period of 2 or more consecutive weeks
3 or on an ongoing intermittent basis. In order to establish
4 eligibility for home or hospital services, a student's parent
5 or guardian must submit to the child's school district of
6 residence a written statement from a physician licensed to
7 practice medicine in all of its branches stating the existence
8 of such medical condition, the impact on the child's ability to
9 participate in education, and the anticipated duration or
10 nature of the child's absence from school. Eligible children
11 Children to be included in any reimbursement under this
12 paragraph must regularly receive a minimum of one hour of
13 instruction each school day, or in lieu thereof of a minimum of
14 5 hours of instruction in each school week in order to qualify
15 for full reimbursement under this Section. If the attending
16 physician for such a child has certified that the child should
17 not receive as many as 5 hours of instruction in a school week,
18 however, reimbursement under this paragraph on account of that
19 child shall be computed proportionate to the actual hours of
20 instruction per week for that child divided by 5. The State
21 Board of Education shall establish rules governing the required
22 qualifications of staff providing home or hospital
23 instruction.
24     (b) For children described in Section 14-1.02, 80% 4/5 of
25 the cost of transportation approved as a related service in the
26 Individualized Education Program for each student for each such

 

 

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1 child, whom the State Superintendent of Education determined in
2 advance requires special transportation service in order to
3 take advantage of special educational facilities.
4 Transportation costs shall be determined in the same fashion as
5 provided in Section 29-5. For purposes of this subsection (b),
6 the dates for processing claims specified in Section 29-5 shall
7 apply.
8     (c) For each qualified professional worker excluding those
9 included in subparagraphs (a), (d), (e), and (f) of this
10 Section, the annual sum of $8,000 for the 1985-1986 school year
11 through the 2005-2006 school year and $9,000 for the 2006-2007
12 school year and for each school year thereafter.
13     (d) For one full time qualified director of the special
14 education program of each school district which maintains a
15 fully approved program of special education the annual sum of
16 $8,000 for the 1985-1986 school year through the 2005-2006
17 school year and $9,000 for the 2006-2007 school year and for
18 each school year thereafter. Districts participating in a joint
19 agreement special education program shall not receive such
20 reimbursement if reimbursement is made for a director of the
21 joint agreement program.
22     (e) (Blank). For each school psychologist as defined in
23 Section 14-1.09 the annual sum of $8,000 for the 1985-1986
24 school year through the 2005-2006 school year and $9,000 for
25 the 2006-2007 school year and for each school year thereafter.
26     (f) (Blank). For each qualified teacher working in a fully

 

 

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1 approved program for children of preschool age who are deaf or
2 hard-of-hearing the annual sum of $8,000 for the 1985-1986
3 school year through the 2005-2006 school year and $9,000 for
4 the 2006-2007 school year and for each school year thereafter.
5     (g) For readers, working with blind or partially seeing
6 children 1/2 of their salary but not more than $400 annually
7 per child. Readers may be employed to assist such children and
8 shall not be required to be certified but prior to employment
9 shall meet standards set up by the State Board of Education.
10     (h) For necessary non-certified employees, as defined by
11 rules promulgated by the State Board of Education, who deliver
12 services to students with IEPs working in any class or program
13 for children defined in this Article, 1/2 of the salary paid or
14 $2,800 annually per employee through the 2005-2006 school year
15 and $3,500 per employee for the 2006-2007 school year and for
16 each school year thereafter, whichever is less.
17     The State Board of Education shall set standards and
18 prescribe rules for determining the allocation of
19 reimbursement under this section on less than a full time basis
20 and for less than a school year.
21     When any school district eligible for reimbursement under
22 this Section operates a school or program approved by the State
23 Superintendent of Education for a number of days in excess of
24 the adopted school calendar but not to exceed 235 school days,
25 such reimbursement shall be increased by 1/180 of the amount or
26 rate paid hereunder for each day such school is operated in

 

 

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1 excess of 180 days per calendar year.
2     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school
3 district receiving a payment under this Section or under
4 Section 14-7.02, 14-7.02b, or 29-5 of this Code may classify
5 all or a portion of the funds that it receives in a particular
6 fiscal year or from general State aid pursuant to Section
7 18-8.05 of this Code as funds received in connection with any
8 funding program for which it is entitled to receive funds from
9 the State in that fiscal year (including, without limitation,
10 any funding program referenced in this Section), regardless of
11 the source or timing of the receipt. The district may not
12 classify more funds as funds received in connection with the
13 funding program than the district is entitled to receive in
14 that fiscal year for that program. Any classification by a
15 district must be made by a resolution of its board of
16 education. The resolution must identify the amount of any
17 payments or general State aid to be classified under this
18 paragraph and must specify the funding program to which the
19 funds are to be treated as received in connection therewith.
20 This resolution is controlling as to the classification of
21 funds referenced therein. A certified copy of the resolution
22 must be sent to the State Superintendent of Education. The
23 resolution shall still take effect even though a copy of the
24 resolution has not been sent to the State Superintendent of
25 Education in a timely manner. No classification under this
26 paragraph by a district shall affect the total amount or timing

 

 

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1 of money the district is entitled to receive under this Code.
2 No classification under this paragraph by a district shall in
3 any way relieve the district from or affect any requirements
4 that otherwise would apply with respect to that funding
5 program, including any accounting of funds by source, reporting
6 expenditures by original source and purpose, reporting
7 requirements, or requirements of providing services.
8 (Source: P.A. 95-415, eff. 8-24-07; 95-707, eff. 1-11-08.)
 
9     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
10 becoming law.".