093_HB1563

 
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 1        AN ACT regarding 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 360 180 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. The school  board
26    may require a physician's certificate, or if the treatment is
27    by  prayer or spiritual means, that of a spiritual adviser or
28    practitioner of such person's  faith,  as  a  basis  for  pay
29    during leave after an absence of 3 days for personal illness,
30    or  as  it  may deem necessary in other cases.  If the school
31    board does require a physician's certificate or a certificate
 
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 1    from a spiritual healer as a basis for pay  during  leave  of
 2    less  than  3  days,  the school board shall pay, from school
 3    funds,  the  expenses  incurred  by  the  teachers  or  other
 4    employees in obtaining the certificate.
 5        If, by reason of any change in the boundaries  of  school
 6    districts,  or  by  reason  of  the  creation of a new school
 7    district, the employment of a teacher is transferred to a new
 8    or different  board,  the  accumulated  sick  leave  of  such
 9    teacher  is  not thereby lost, but is transferred to such new
10    or different district.
11        For purposes of this Section,  "immediate  family"  shall
12    include   parents,   spouse,   brothers,  sisters,  children,
13    grandparents, grandchildren, parents-in-law, brothers-in-law,
14    sisters-in-law, and legal guardians.
15    (Source: P.A. 86-838.)

16        Section 90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by  adding
17    Section 8.27 as follows:

18        (30 ILCS 805/8.27 new)
19        Sec.  8.27.  Exempt  mandate.  Notwithstanding Sections 6
20    and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is  required
21    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
22    amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.