Public Act 098-0947
 
SB2989 EnrolledLRB098 16604 NHT 51672 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 
14-1.09 as follows:
 



    (105 ILCS 5/14-1.09)  (from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.09)



    Sec. 14-1.09. School psychologist. "School psychologist" 
means a
psychologist who meets the following qualifications: 
        (1) The psychologist: 
            (A) has graduated with a master's or higher degree 
        in
psychology or educational psychology from an 
        institution of higher learning that
which maintains 
        equipment,
courses of study, and standards of 
        scholarship approved by the State Board
of Education, 
        who has had at least one school year of full-time 
        supervised
experience in the delivery of school 
        psychological services of a character
approved by the 
        State
Superintendent of Education, and who has such 
        additional qualifications
as may be required
by the 
        State Board of Education; or , and 
            (B) holds a valid Nationally Certified School 
        Psychologist (NCSP) certificate and has such 
        additional qualifications as may be required by the 
        State Board of Education. 
        (2) The psychologist who holds a Professional Educator 
    License with a school psychologist endorsement School 
    Service Personnel
Certificate endorsed for school 
    psychology issued pursuant to Section 21B-25 of this Code

    21-25.
Persons so licensed certified may use the title 
    "school psychologist" and may
offer school psychological 
    services which are limited to those services set
forth in 
    23 Ill. Adm. Code 226, Special Education, pertaining to 
    children
between the ages of 3 to 21, promulgated by the 
    State Board of Education.

    School psychologists may make evaluations, recommendations 
or interventions
regarding the placement of children in 
educational programs or special
education classes.  However, a 
school psychologist shall not provide such
services outside his 
or her employment to any student in the district or
districts 
which employ such school psychologist.

(Source: P.A. 85-361.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law. 
  


Effective Date:  8/15/2014