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Public Act 103-0395
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
24-2 as follows:
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(105 ILCS 5/24-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-2)
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Sec. 24-2. Holidays. |
(a) Teachers shall not be required
to teach on Saturdays, |
nor, except as provided in subsection (b) of this Section, |
shall teachers, educational support personnel employees, or |
other school
employees, other than noncertificated school |
employees whose presence is
necessary because of an emergency |
or for the continued operation and
maintenance of school |
facilities or property, be
required to work on legal school
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holidays, which are January 1, New Year's Day; the third |
Monday in
January, the Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, |
Jr.; February 12, the
Birthday of President Abraham Lincoln; |
the
first Monday in March (to be known as Casimir Pulaski's |
birthday); Good
Friday; the day designated as Memorial Day by |
federal law; June 19, Juneteenth National Freedom Day; July 4,
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Independence Day; the first Monday in September, Labor Day; |
the second Monday
in October, Columbus Day; November 11, |
Veterans' Day; the Thursday in
November commonly called |
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Thanksgiving Day; and December 25, Christmas Day.
School |
boards may grant special holidays whenever in their judgment |
such
action is advisable. No deduction shall
be made from the |
time or
compensation of a school employee, including an |
educational support personnel employee, on account of any |
legal
or special holiday in which that employee would have |
otherwise been scheduled to work but for the legal or special |
holiday.
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(b) A school board or other entity eligible to apply for |
waivers and modifications under Section 2-3.25g of this Code |
is authorized to hold school or schedule teachers' institutes, |
parent-teacher conferences, or staff development on the third |
Monday in January (the Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, |
Jr.); February 12 (the Birthday of President Abraham Lincoln); |
the first Monday in March (known as Casimir Pulaski's |
birthday); the second Monday in October (Columbus Day); and |
November 11 (Veterans' Day), provided that: |
(1) the person or persons honored by the holiday are |
recognized through instructional activities conducted on |
that day or, if the day is not used for student attendance, |
on the first school day preceding or following that day; |
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(2) the entity that chooses to exercise this authority |
first holds a public hearing about the proposal. The |
entity shall provide notice preceding the public hearing |
to both educators and parents. The notice shall set forth |
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the time, date, and place of the hearing, describe the |
proposal, and indicate that the entity will take testimony |
from educators and parents about the proposal.
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(c) Commemorative holidays, which recognize specified |
patriotic, civic,
cultural or historical persons, activities, |
or events, are regular school
days. Commemorative
holidays |
are: January 17 (the birthday of Muhammad Ali), January 28 (to |
be known as Christa McAuliffe Day and
observed as a |
commemoration of space exploration), February 15 (the
birthday |
of Susan B. Anthony), March 29 (Viet Nam War Veterans' Day),
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September 11 (September 11th Day of Remembrance), the school |
day
immediately preceding Veterans' Day (Korean War Veterans'
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Day), October 1 (Recycling Day), October 7 (Iraq and |
Afghanistan Veterans Remembrance Day), December 7 (Pearl |
Harbor Veterans' Day), and
any day so appointed by the |
President or
Governor. School boards may establish |
commemorative holidays whenever in
their judgment such action |
is advisable.
School boards shall include instruction relative |
to commemorated persons,
activities, or
events on the |
commemorative holiday or at any other time during the school
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year and at any point in the curriculum when such instruction |
may be deemed
appropriate. The State Board of Education shall |
prepare and make available
to school boards instructional |
materials relative to commemorated persons,
activities,
or |
events which may be used by school boards in conjunction with |
any
instruction provided pursuant to this paragraph.
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(d) City of Chicago School District 299 shall observe |
March 4 of each year as
a commemorative holiday. This holiday |
shall be known as Mayors' Day which
shall be a day to |
commemorate and be reminded of the past Chief Executive
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Officers of the City of Chicago, and in particular the late |
Mayor Richard
J. Daley and the late Mayor Harold Washington. |
If March 4 falls on a
Saturday or Sunday, Mayors' Day shall be |
observed on the following Monday. |
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of State law to |
the contrary, November 3, 2020 shall be a State holiday known |
as 2020 General Election Day and shall be observed throughout |
the State pursuant to this amendatory Act of the 101st General |
Assembly. All government offices, with the exception of |
election authorities, shall be closed unless authorized to be |
used as a location for election day services or as a polling |
place. |
Notwithstanding any other provision of State law to the |
contrary, November 8, 2022 shall be a State holiday known as |
2022 General Election Day and shall be observed throughout the |
State under Public Act 102-15.
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(Source: P.A. 101-642, eff. 6-16-20; 102-14, eff. 1-1-22; |
102-15, eff. 6-17-21; 102-334, eff. 8-9-21; 102-411, eff. |
1-1-22; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
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