95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0805

 

Introduced 2/7/2007, by Rep. Mike Boland

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/24-5   from Ch. 122, par. 24-5
105 ILCS 5/24-6   from Ch. 122, par. 24-6
105 ILCS 5/26-1   from Ch. 122, par. 26-1

    Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning an employee's physical fitness and sick leave and compulsory school age exemptions, provides that when required, certain examinations may be conducted by and certain certificates may be issued by a chiropractic physician licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning education.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
5 24-5, 24-6, and 26-1 as follows:
 
6     (105 ILCS 5/24-5)  (from Ch. 122, par. 24-5)
7     Sec. 24-5. Physical fitness and professional growth.
8     School boards shall require of new employees evidence of
9 physical fitness to perform duties assigned and freedom from
10 communicable disease, including tuberculosis. Such evidence
11 shall consist of a physical examination and a tuberculin skin
12 test and, if appropriate, an x-ray, made by a physician
13 licensed in Illinois or any other state to practice medicine
14 and surgery in all its branches, a chiropractic physician
15 licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987, an advanced
16 practice nurse who has a written collaborative agreement with a
17 collaborating physician that authorizes the advanced practice
18 nurse to perform health examinations, or a physician assistant
19 who has been delegated the authority to perform health
20 examinations by his or her supervising physician not more than
21 90 days preceding time of presentation to the board and cost of
22 such examination shall rest with the employee. The board may
23 from time to time require an examination of any employee by a

 

 

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1 physician licensed in Illinois to practice medicine and surgery
2 in all its branches, a chiropractic physician licensed under
3 the Medical Practice Act of 1987, an advanced practice nurse
4 who has a written collaborative agreement with a collaborating
5 physician that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to
6 perform health examinations, or a physician assistant who has
7 been delegated the authority to perform health examinations by
8 his or her supervising physician and shall pay the expenses
9 thereof from school funds. School boards may require teachers
10 in their employ to furnish from time to time evidence of
11 continued professional growth.
12 (Source: P.A. 94-350, eff. 7-28-05.)
 
13     (105 ILCS 5/24-6)  (from Ch. 122, par. 24-6)
14     Sec. 24-6. Sick leave. The school boards of all school
15 districts, including special charter districts, but not
16 including school districts in municipalities of 500,000 or
17 more, shall grant their full-time teachers, and also shall
18 grant such of their other employees as are eligible to
19 participate in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund under the
20 "600-Hour Standard" established, or under such other
21 eligibility participation standard as may from time to time be
22 established, by rules and regulations now or hereafter
23 promulgated by the Board of that Fund under Section 7-198 of
24 the Illinois Pension Code, as now or hereafter amended, sick
25 leave provisions not less in amount than 10 days at full pay in

 

 

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1 each school year. If any such teacher or employee does not use
2 the full amount of annual leave thus allowed, the unused amount
3 shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum available leave of
4 180 days at full pay, including the leave of the current year.
5 Sick leave shall be interpreted to mean personal illness,
6 quarantine at home, or serious illness or death in the
7 immediate family or household. The school board may require a
8 certificate from a physician licensed in Illinois to practice
9 medicine and surgery in all its branches, a chiropractic
10 physician licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987, an
11 advanced practice nurse who has a written collaborative
12 agreement with a collaborating physician that authorizes the
13 advanced practice nurse to perform health examinations, or a
14 physician assistant who has been delegated the authority to
15 perform health examinations by his or her supervising
16 physician, or if the treatment is by prayer or spiritual means,
17 that of a spiritual adviser or practitioner of such person's
18 faith, as a basis for pay during leave after an absence of 3
19 days for personal illness, or as it may deem necessary in other
20 cases. If the school board does require a certificate as a
21 basis for pay during leave of less than 3 days, the school
22 board shall pay, from school funds, the expenses incurred by
23 the teachers or other employees in obtaining the certificate.
24     If, by reason of any change in the boundaries of school
25 districts, or by reason of the creation of a new school
26 district, the employment of a teacher is transferred to a new

 

 

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1 or different board, the accumulated sick leave of such teacher
2 is not thereby lost, but is transferred to such new or
3 different district.
4     For purposes of this Section, "immediate family" shall
5 include parents, spouse, brothers, sisters, children,
6 grandparents, grandchildren, parents-in-law, brothers-in-law,
7 sisters-in-law, and legal guardians.
8 (Source: P.A. 94-350, eff. 7-28-05.)
 
9     (105 ILCS 5/26-1)  (from Ch. 122, par. 26-1)
10     Sec. 26-1. Compulsory school age-Exemptions. Whoever has
11 custody or control of any child between the ages of 7 and 17
12 years (unless the child has already graduated from high school)
13 shall cause such child to attend some public school in the
14 district wherein the child resides the entire time it is in
15 session during the regular school term, except as provided in
16 Section 10-19.1, and during a required summer school program
17 established under Section 10-22.33B; provided, that the
18 following children shall not be required to attend the public
19 schools:
20         1. Any child attending a private or a parochial school
21     where children are taught the branches of education taught
22     to children of corresponding age and grade in the public
23     schools, and where the instruction of the child in the
24     branches of education is in the English language;
25         2. Any child who is physically or mentally unable to

 

 

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1     attend school, such disability being certified to the
2     county or district truant officer by a competent physician
3     licensed in Illinois to practice medicine and surgery in
4     all its branches, a chiropractic physician licensed under
5     the Medical Practice Act of 1987, an advanced practice
6     nurse who has a written collaborative agreement with a
7     collaborating physician that authorizes the advanced
8     practice nurse to perform health examinations, a physician
9     assistant who has been delegated the authority to perform
10     health examinations by his or her supervising physician, or
11     a Christian Science practitioner residing in this State and
12     listed in the Christian Science Journal; or who is excused
13     for temporary absence for cause by the principal or teacher
14     of the school which the child attends; the exemptions in
15     this paragraph (2) do not apply to any female who is
16     pregnant or the mother of one or more children, except
17     where a female is unable to attend school due to a
18     complication arising from her pregnancy and the existence
19     of such complication is certified to the county or district
20     truant officer by a competent physician;
21         3. Any child necessarily and lawfully employed
22     according to the provisions of the law regulating child
23     labor may be excused from attendance at school by the
24     county superintendent of schools or the superintendent of
25     the public school which the child should be attending, on
26     certification of the facts by and the recommendation of the

 

 

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1     school board of the public school district in which the
2     child resides. In districts having part time continuation
3     schools, children so excused shall attend such schools at
4     least 8 hours each week;
5         4. Any child over 12 and under 14 years of age while in
6     attendance at confirmation classes;
7         5. Any child absent from a public school on a
8     particular day or days or at a particular time of day for
9     the reason that he is unable to attend classes or to
10     participate in any examination, study or work requirements
11     on a particular day or days or at a particular time of day,
12     because the tenets of his religion forbid secular activity
13     on a particular day or days or at a particular time of day.
14     Each school board shall prescribe rules and regulations
15     relative to absences for religious holidays including, but
16     not limited to, a list of religious holidays on which it
17     shall be mandatory to excuse a child; but nothing in this
18     paragraph 5 shall be construed to limit the right of any
19     school board, at its discretion, to excuse an absence on
20     any other day by reason of the observance of a religious
21     holiday. A school board may require the parent or guardian
22     of a child who is to be excused from attending school due
23     to the observance of a religious holiday to give notice,
24     not exceeding 5 days, of the child's absence to the school
25     principal or other school personnel. Any child excused from
26     attending school under this paragraph 5 shall not be

 

 

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1     required to submit a written excuse for such absence after
2     returning to school; and
3         6. Any child 16 years of age or older who (i) submits
4     to a school district evidence of necessary and lawful
5     employment pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Section and (ii)
6     is enrolled in a graduation incentives program pursuant to
7     Section 26-16 of this Code or an alternative learning
8     opportunities program established pursuant to Article 13B
9     of this Code.
10 (Source: P.A. 93-858, eff. 1-1-05; 94-350, eff. 7-28-05.)