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HB5031 Engrossed |
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LRB094 14494 RCE 49431 b |
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
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| 10-23.5 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/10-23.5) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-23.5)
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| Sec. 10-23.5. Educational support personnel employees. To |
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| employ such
educational support personnel employees as it deems |
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| advisable and to define
their employment duties; provided that |
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| residency within any school district
shall not be considered in |
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| determining the employment or the compensation of
any such |
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| employee, or whether to retain, promote, assign or transfer |
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| such
employee. If an educational support personnel employee is |
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| removed or dismissed or the hours he or she works are reduced
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| as a result of a decision of the school board to decrease the |
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| number of
educational support personnel employees employed by |
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| the board or to discontinue
some particular type of educational |
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| support service, written notice shall be
mailed to the employee |
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| and also given to the employee either by certified mail,
return |
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| receipt requested , or personal delivery with receipt , at least |
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| 30 days before the employee is removed or dismissed or the |
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| hours he or she works are reduced , together with a statement of |
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| honorable dismissal and the reason
therefor if applicable . |
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| However, if a reduction in hours is due to an unforeseen |
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| reduction in the student population, then the written notice |
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| must be mailed and given to the employee at least 5 days before |
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| the hours are reduced. The employee with the shorter length of |
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| continuing service with the
district, within the respective |
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| category of position, shall be dismissed first
unless an |
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| alternative method of determining the sequence of dismissal is
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| established in a collective bargaining agreement or contract |
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| between the
board and any exclusive bargaining agent and except |