Rep. Fred Crespo
Filed: 4/2/2014
 
 


 




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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3950 




2 AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3950 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:


4 "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section 
514-1.09 as follows:




6 (105 ILCS 5/14-1.09) (from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.09)



7 Sec. 14-1.09. School psychologist. "School psychologist" 
8means a
psychologist who meets the following qualifications: 
9  (1) The psychologist: 
10   (A) has graduated with a master's or higher degree 
11 in
psychology or educational psychology from an 
12 institution of higher learning that
which maintains 
13 equipment,
courses of study, and standards of 
14 scholarship approved by the State Board
of Education, 
15 who has had at least one school year of full-time 
16 supervised
experience in the delivery of school 
 
 
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1 psychological services of a character
approved by the 
2 State
Superintendent of Education, and who has such 
3 additional qualifications
as may be required
by the 
4 State Board of Education; or , and 
5   (B) holds a valid Nationally Certified School 
6 Psychologist (NCSP) certificate and has such 
7 additional qualifications as may be required by the 
8 State Board of Education. 
9  (2) The psychologist who holds a Professional Educator 
10 License with a school psychologist endorsement School 
11 Service Personnel
Certificate endorsed for school 
12 psychology issued pursuant to Section 21B-25 of this Code

13 21-25.
Persons so licensed certified may use the title 
14 "school psychologist" and may
offer school psychological 
15 services which are limited to those services set
forth in 
16 23 Ill. Adm. Code 226, Special Education, pertaining to 
17 children
between the ages of 3 to 21, promulgated by the 
18 State Board of Education.

19 School psychologists may make evaluations, recommendations 
20or interventions
regarding the placement of children in 
21educational programs or special
education classes. However, a 
22school psychologist shall not provide such
services outside his 
23or her employment to any student in the district or
districts 
24which employ such school psychologist.

25(Source: P.A. 85-361.)



 
 
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1 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
2becoming law.".