Full Text of SB2689 95th General Assembly
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Sen. Michael Noland
Filed: 4/11/2008
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2689
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2689 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 24-6 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/24-6) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-6)
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| 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
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| 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
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| promulgated by the Board of that Fund under Section 7-198 of |
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| the Illinois
Pension Code, as now or hereafter amended, sick | 2 |
| leave
provisions not less in amount than 10 days at full pay in | 3 |
| each school year.
If any such teacher or employee does not use | 4 |
| the full amount of annual leave
thus allowed, the unused amount | 5 |
| shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum
available leave of | 6 |
| 180 days at full pay, including the leave of the current
year. | 7 |
| If an employee other than a teacher under this Section does not | 8 |
| use the full amount of annual leave thus allowed, the unused | 9 |
| amount shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum available | 10 |
| leave of 240 days at full pay, including the leave of the | 11 |
| current year. If an employee other than a teacher under this | 12 |
| Section is subject to a reduction in force, the employing | 13 |
| district shall maintain on its records all accumulated sick | 14 |
| leave days, which must be recredited to the employee at the | 15 |
| time of recall. If the employee is not recalled, then the | 16 |
| district shall pay the employee, at the expiration of the | 17 |
| recall period, the cash value for all accumulated sick leave at | 18 |
| the daily rate of pay at the time of the layoff. Sick leave | 19 |
| shall be interpreted to mean personal illness, quarantine
at | 20 |
| home, serious illness or death in the immediate family or | 21 |
| household, or
birth, adoption, or placement for adoption.
The | 22 |
| school board may require a certificate from a physician | 23 |
| licensed in Illinois to practice medicine and surgery in all | 24 |
| its branches, an advanced practice nurse who has a written | 25 |
| collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician that | 26 |
| authorizes the advanced practice nurse to perform health |
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| examinations, or a physician assistant who has been delegated | 2 |
| the authority to perform health examinations by his or her | 3 |
| supervising physician, or if the treatment
is by prayer or | 4 |
| spiritual means, that of a spiritual adviser or
practitioner of | 5 |
| such person's faith, as a basis for pay during leave after
an | 6 |
| absence of 3 days for personal illness, or as it may deem | 7 |
| necessary in
other cases. If the school board does require a
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| certificate
as a basis for pay during leave of
less than 3 | 9 |
| days, the school board shall pay, from school funds, the
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| expenses incurred by the teachers or other employees in | 11 |
| obtaining the certificate.
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| If, by reason of any change in the boundaries of school | 13 |
| districts, or by
reason of the creation of a new school | 14 |
| district, the employment of a
teacher is transferred to a new | 15 |
| or different board, the accumulated sick
leave of such teacher | 16 |
| is not thereby lost, but is transferred to such new
or | 17 |
| different district.
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| For purposes of this Section, "immediate family" shall | 19 |
| include parents,
spouse, brothers, sisters, children, | 20 |
| grandparents, grandchildren,
parents-in-law, brothers-in-law, | 21 |
| sisters-in-law, and legal guardians.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-350, eff. 7-28-05; 95-151, eff. 8-14-07.)
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 24 |
| Section 8.32 as follows: |
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| (30 ILCS 805/8.32 new) | 2 |
| Sec. 8.32. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | 3 |
| of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 4 |
| implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 5 |
| the 95th General Assembly. ".
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