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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is
5amended by adding Section 4.10 as follows:
 
6    (115 ILCS 5/4.10 new)
7    Sec. 4.10. Length of work as subject of collective
8bargaining.
9    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or
10other law to the contrary, with respect to a school district
11organized under Article 34 of the School Code only, collective
12bargaining between an educational employer and an exclusive
13representative of its employees may include decisions to
14determine the length of the work and school day and the length
15of the work and school year.
16    (b) The subject or matters described in subsection (a) are
17permissive subjects of bargaining between the educational
18employer and an exclusive representative of its employees and,
19for the purpose of this Act, are within the sole discretion of
20the educational employer to decide to bargain, provided that
21the educational employer is required to bargain over the impact
22of a decision concerning the subject or matter on the
23bargaining unit upon request of the exclusive representative

 

 

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1under Section 10.
 
2    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3becoming law, but this Act does not take effect at all unless
4House Bill 2275 of the 101st General Assembly, in the form in
5which it passed the House on March 28, 2019, becomes law.