Public Act 095-0396
 
SB1560 Enrolled LRB095 10810 NHT 31060 b

    AN ACT concerning education.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
10-23.5 as follows:
 
    (105 ILCS 5/10-23.5)  (from Ch. 122, par. 10-23.5)
    Sec. 10-23.5. Educational support personnel employees. To
employ such educational support personnel employees as it deems
advisable and to define their employment duties; provided that
residency within any school district shall not be considered in
determining the employment or the compensation of any such
employee, or whether to retain, promote, assign or transfer
such employee. If an educational support personnel employee is
removed or dismissed or the hours he or she works are reduced
as a result of a decision of the school board to decrease the
number of educational support personnel employees employed by
the board or to discontinue some particular type of educational
support service, written notice shall be mailed to the employee
and also given to the employee either by certified mail, return
receipt requested, or personal delivery with receipt, at least
30 days before the employee is removed or dismissed or the
hours he or she works are reduced, together with a statement of
honorable dismissal and the reason therefor if applicable.
However, if a reduction in hours is due to an unforeseen
reduction in the student population, then the written notice
must be mailed and given to the employee at least 5 days before
the hours are reduced. The employee with the shorter length of
continuing service with the district, within the respective
category of position, shall be dismissed first unless an
alternative method of determining the sequence of dismissal is
established in a collective bargaining agreement or contract
between the board and any exclusive bargaining agent and except
that this provision shall not impair the operation of any
affirmative action program in the district, regardless of
whether it exists by operation of law or is conducted on a
voluntary basis by the board. If the board has any vacancies
for the following school term or within one calendar year from
the beginning of the following school term, the positions
thereby becoming available within a specific category of
position shall be tendered to the employees so removed or
dismissed from that category or any other category of position,
so far as they are qualified to hold such positions. Each board
shall, in consultation with any exclusive employee
representative or bargaining agent, each year establish a list,
categorized by positions, showing the length of continuing
service of each full time educational support personnel
employee who is qualified to hold any such positions, unless an
alternative method of determining a sequence of dismissal is
established as provided for in this Section, in which case a
list shall be made in accordance with the alternative method.
Copies of the list shall be distributed to the exclusive
employee representative or bargaining agent on or before
February 1 of each year. Where an educational support personnel
employee is dismissed by the board as a result of a decrease in
the number of employees or the discontinuance of the employee's
job, the employee shall be paid all earned compensation on or
before the third business day following his or her last day of
employment.
    The provisions of this amendatory Act of 1986 relating to
residency within any school district shall not apply to cities
having a population exceeding 500,000 inhabitants.
(Source: P.A. 89-618, eff. 8-9-96; 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.