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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 837
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 837 on page 1,  by
 3    replacing lines 1 and 2 with the following:
 4        "AN ACT relating to education."; and
 5    on page 1, by inserting below line 19 the following:
 6        "Section  10.   The  Illinois Educational Labor Relations
 7    Act is amended by changing Section 4.5 as follows:
 8        (115 ILCS 5/4.5)
 9        Sec. 4.5.  Prohibited subjects of collective bargaining.
10        (a)  Notwithstanding the existence of any other provision
11    in this Act or other law, collective bargaining  between  the
12    board  of  education  of  a  public school district organized
13    under Article 34 of the School Code an  educational  employer
14    whose  territorial boundaries are coterminous with those of a
15    city  having  a  population  in  excess  of  500,000  and  an
16    exclusive representative of its employees shall  not  include
17    any of the following subjects:
18             (1)  Decisions  to  grant  or  deny a charter school
19        proposal under Section 27A-8 of the Charter Schools  Law,
20        to  renew  or revoke a charter under Section 27A-9 of the
21        Charter Schools Law, or to  grant  or  deny  a  leave  of
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 1        absence  to an employee of a school district to become an
 2        employee of a charter school, and  the  impact  of  these
 3        decisions on individual employees or the bargaining unit.
 4             (2)  Decisions  to  contract  with a third party for
 5        one or more services otherwise performed by employees  in
 6        a  bargaining  unit,  the  procedures  for obtaining such
 7        contract or the identity of  the  third  party,  and  the
 8        impact  of these decisions on individual employees or the
 9        bargaining unit.
10             (3)  Decisions  to  layoff  or   reduce   in   force
11        employees  (including but not limited to reserve teachers
12        or teachers  who  are  no  longer  on  an  administrative
13        payroll)  due to lack of work or funds, including but not
14        limited to  decline  in  student  enrollment,  change  in
15        subject   requirements   within   the  attendance  center
16        organization,  closing  of  an  attendance   center,   or
17        contracts  with  third  parties  for  the  performance of
18        services, and the impact of these decisions on individual
19        employees or the bargaining unit.
20             (4)  Decisions  to  determine  class   size,   class
21        staffing   and   assignment,  class  schedules,  academic
22        calendar, hours  and  places  of  instruction,  or  pupil
23        assessment policies, and the impact of these decisions on
24        individual employees or the bargaining unit.
25             (5)  Decisions   concerning   use  and  staffing  of
26        experimental or pilot programs, decisions concerning  use
27        of   technology   to  deliver  educational  programs  and
28        services and staffing to provide the technology, and  the
29        impact  of these decisions on individual employees or the
30        bargaining unit.
31        (b)  The subject or matters described in  subsection  (a)
32    are  prohibited  subjects  of bargaining between the board of
33    education of a public school district organized under Article
34    34  of  the  School  Code  an  educational  employer  and  an
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 1    exclusive  representative  of  its  employees  and,  for  the
 2    purpose of this Act, are within the  sole  authority  of  the
 3    board  of  education  of  that  school  district  educational
 4    employer to decide.
 5        (c)  This  Section  shall  apply to collective bargaining
 6    agreements that become effective after the effective date  of
 7    this  amendatory  Act  of  1995  and shall render a provision
 8    involving a prohibited subject in  such  agreement  null  and
 9    void.
10    (Source: P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)".

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