093_HB3625

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning schools.

 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
 5    Section 24-6 as follows:

 6        (105 ILCS 5/24-6) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-6)
 7        Sec.  24-6.  Sick  leave. The school boards of all school
 8    districts,  including  special  charter  districts,  but  not
 9    including school districts in municipalities  of  500,000  or
10    more,  shall  grant  their full-time teachers, and also shall
11    grant such of  their  other  employees  as  are  eligible  to
12    participate  in  the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund under
13    the "600-Hour Standard"  established,  or  under  such  other
14    eligibility  participation  standard as may from time to time
15    be established, by rules and  regulations  now  or  hereafter
16    promulgated  by the Board of that Fund under Section 7-198 of
17    the Illinois Pension Code, as now or hereafter amended,  sick
18    leave  provisions not less in amount than 10 days at full pay
19    in each school year. If any such teacher or employee does not
20    use the full amount of annual leave thus allowed, the  unused
21    amount  shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum available
22    leave of 180 days at full pay, including  the  leave  of  the
23    current  year.  Sick  leave  shall  be  interpreted  to  mean
24    personal  illness,  quarantine at home, or serious illness or
25    death  in  the  immediate  family  or  household,  or  birth,
26    adoption or placement for  adoption,  or  foster  care  of  a
27    child.   The   school   board   may   require  a  physician's
28    certificate, or if the treatment is by  prayer  or  spiritual
29    means,  that  of  a spiritual adviser or practitioner of such
30    person's faith, as a basis for  pay  during  leave  after  an
31    absence  of  3  days  for personal illness, or as it may deem
 
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 1    necessary in other cases.  If the school board does require a
 2    physician's certificate or a  certificate  from  a  spiritual
 3    healer  as  a basis for pay during leave of less than 3 days,
 4    the school board shall pay, from school funds,  the  expenses
 5    incurred  by the teachers or other employees in obtaining the
 6    certificate.
 7        If, by reason of any change in the boundaries  of  school
 8    districts,  or  by  reason  of  the  creation of a new school
 9    district, the employment of a teacher is transferred to a new
10    or different  board,  the  accumulated  sick  leave  of  such
11    teacher  is  not thereby lost, but is transferred to such new
12    or different district.
13        For purposes of this Section,  "immediate  family"  shall
14    include   parents,   spouse,   brothers,  sisters,  children,
15    grandparents, grandchildren, parents-in-law, brothers-in-law,
16    sisters-in-law, and legal guardians.
17    (Source: P.A. 86-838.)

18        Section 90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by  adding
19    Section 8.27 as follows:

20        (30 ILCS 805/8.27 new)
21        Sec.  8.27.  Exempt  mandate.  Notwithstanding Sections 6
22    and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is  required
23    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
24    amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.

25        Section  99.   Effective  date.  This Act takes effect on
26    July 1, 2003.