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Rep. Katie Stuart
Filed: 3/25/2024
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3907
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3907 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section |
| 5 | | 24-9.5 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/24-9.5 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 24-9.5. Teacher planning time. |
| 8 | | (a) In this Section: |
| 9 | | "Clinician" means a related service provider, including, |
| 10 | | but not limited to, a school social worker, school |
| 11 | | psychologist, school counselor, school nurse, school |
| 12 | | speech-language pathologist, or school physical or |
| 13 | | occupational therapist. |
| 14 | | "Duty-free" means the time during which a teacher or |
| 15 | | clinician is not required to supervise students, collaborate |
| 16 | | with other school district employees, or attend meetings, |
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| 1 | | trainings, or conferences of any kind. |
| 2 | | (b) Every teacher or clinician of a school district who is |
| 3 | | in contact with students at least 50% of the teacher's or |
| 4 | | clinician's contracted workday is entitled to daily, |
| 5 | | duty-free, self-directed plan time. However, an alternative |
| 6 | | duty-free, self-directed plan time schedule may be |
| 7 | | collectively bargained for to accommodate alternative |
| 8 | | school-schedule formats, such as block schedules, or to |
| 9 | | accommodate other educational needs, as agreed upon by the |
| 10 | | exclusive bargaining representative of the teachers or |
| 11 | | clinicians and the school district. |
| 12 | | (c) If a school district and the exclusive bargaining |
| 13 | | representative of the teachers or clinicians entitled to |
| 14 | | daily, duty-free, self-directed plan time under subsection (b) |
| 15 | | cannot reach an agreement on a defined amount of daily, |
| 16 | | duty-free, self-directed plan time, then the school district |
| 17 | | shall provide each of those teachers or clinicians with 45 |
| 18 | | consecutive minutes of daily, duty-free, self-directed plan |
| 19 | | time. |
| 20 | | (d) If a teacher or clinician chooses to relinquish the |
| 21 | | teacher's or clinician's entitlement to daily, duty-free, |
| 22 | | self-directed plan time under subsection (b), then the teacher |
| 23 | | or clinician shall be compensated for that relinquishment at a |
| 24 | | collectively bargained rate of pay.". |