Sen. Chris Lauzen

Filed: 3/8/2011

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2250

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2250 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
510-22.34c as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/10-22.34c)
7    Sec. 10-22.34c. Third party non-instructional services.
8Notwithstanding any other law of this State, nothing in this
9Code prevents a (a) A board of education from entering may
10enter into a contract with a third party for non-instructional
11services currently performed by any employee or bargaining unit
12member or from laying lay off those educational support
13personnel employees upon 30 90 days written notice to the
14affected employees. , provided that:
15        (1) a contract must not be entered into and become
16    effective during the term of a collective bargaining

 

 

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1    agreement, as that term is set forth in the agreement,
2    covering any employees who perform the non-instructional
3    services;
4        (2) a contract may only take effect upon the expiration
5    of an existing collective bargaining agreement;
6        (3) any third party that submits a bid to perform the
7    non-instructional services shall provide the following:
8            (A) evidence of liability insurance in scope and
9        amount equivalent to the liability insurance provided
10        by the school board pursuant to Section 10-22.3 of this
11        Code;
12            (B) a benefits package for the third party's
13        employees who will perform the non-instructional
14        services comparable to the benefits package provided
15        to school board employees who perform those services;
16            (C) a list of the number of employees who will
17        provide the non-instructional services, the job
18        classifications of those employees, and the wages the
19        third party will pay those employees;
20            (D) a minimum 3-year cost projection, using
21        generally accepted accounting principles and which the
22        third party is prohibited from increasing if the bid is
23        accepted by the school board, for each and every
24        expenditure category and account for performing the
25        non-instructional services;
26            (E) composite information about the criminal and

 

 

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1        disciplinary records, including alcohol or other
2        substance abuse, Department of Children and Family
3        Services complaints and investigations, traffic
4        violations, and license revocations or any other
5        licensure problems, of any employees who may perform
6        the non-instructional services, provided that the
7        individual names and other identifying information of
8        employees need not be provided with the submission of
9        the bid, but must be made available upon request of the
10        school board; and
11            (F) an affidavit, notarized by the president or
12        chief executive officer of the third party, that each
13        of its employees has completed a criminal background
14        check as required by Section 10-21.9 of this Code
15        within 3 months prior to submission of the bid,
16        provided that the results of such background checks
17        need not be provided with the submission of the bid,
18        but must be made available upon request of the school
19        board;
20        (4) a contract must not be entered into unless the
21    school board provides a cost comparison, using generally
22    accepted accounting principles, of each and every
23    expenditure category and account that the school board
24    projects it would incur over the term of the contract if it
25    continued to perform the non-instructional services using
26    its own employees with each and every expenditure category

 

 

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1    and account that is projected a third party would incur if
2    a third party performed the non-instructional services;
3        (5) review and consideration of all bids by third
4    parties to perform the non-instructional services shall
5    take place in open session of a regularly scheduled school
6    board meeting, unless the exclusive bargaining
7    representative of the employees who perform the
8    non-instructional services, if any such exclusive
9    bargaining representative exists, agrees in writing that
10    such review and consideration can take place in open
11    session at a specially scheduled school board meeting;
12        (6) a minimum of one public hearing, conducted by the
13    school board prior to a regularly scheduled school board
14    meeting, to discuss the school board's proposal to contract
15    with a third party to perform the non-instructional
16    services must be held before the school board may enter
17    into such a contract; the school board must provide notice
18    to the public of the date, time, and location of the first
19    public hearing on or before the initial date that bids to
20    provide the non-instructional services are solicited or a
21    minimum of 30 days prior to entering into such a contract,
22    whichever provides a greater period of notice;
23        (7) a contract shall contain provisions requiring the
24    contractor to offer available employee positions pursuant
25    to the contract to qualified school district employees
26    whose employment is terminated because of the contract; and

 

 

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1        (8) a contract shall contain provisions requiring the
2    contractor to comply with a policy of nondiscrimination and
3    equal employment opportunity for all persons and to take
4    affirmative steps to provide equal opportunity for all
5    persons.
6    (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this Section, a board
7of education may enter into a contract, of no longer than 3
8months in duration, with a third party for non-instructional
9services currently performed by an employee or bargaining unit
10member for the purpose of augmenting the current workforce in
11an emergency situation that threatens the safety or health of
12the school district's students or staff, provided that the
13school board meets all of its obligations under the Illinois
14Educational Labor Relations Act.
15    (c) The changes to this Section made by this amendatory Act
16of the 95th General Assembly are not applicable to
17non-instructional services of a school district that on the
18effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General
19Assembly are performed for the school district by a third
20party.
21(Source: P.A. 95-241, eff. 8-17-07; 96-328, eff. 8-11-09.)".