Bill Amendment: IL HB5321 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: SCH CD-TEACHER SALARY-CONT ED
Status: 2026-06-01 - Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr. [HB5321 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2025-HB5321-Senate_Amendment_001.html
Bill Title: SCH CD-TEACHER SALARY-CONT ED
Status: 2026-06-01 - Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr. [HB5321 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2025-HB5321-Senate_Amendment_001.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5321 | ||||||
| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5321 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following: | ||||||
| 4 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section | ||||||
| 5 | 24-8.2 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/24-8.2 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 24-8.2. Continuing education coursework used for | ||||||
| 8 | salary increases. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) In this Section: | ||||||
| 10 | "Continuing education coursework" means any | ||||||
| 11 | graduate-level, degree-eligible credit course taught by an | ||||||
| 12 | instructor of record and completed by a licensed classroom | ||||||
| 13 | teacher for the purpose of salary advancement or other | ||||||
| 14 | compensation-related advancement under a collective bargaining | ||||||
| 15 | agreement, school district employment contract, school board | ||||||
| 16 | policy, or salary schedule. "Continuing education coursework" | ||||||
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| 1 | includes professional development sequences that are taken or | ||||||
| 2 | completed and are approved by the State Board of Education or | ||||||
| 3 | an industry-recognized credential, including a credential for | ||||||
| 4 | career and technical educators. | ||||||
| 5 | "Graduate-level, degree-eligible credit" means academic | ||||||
| 6 | credit documented on an official academic transcript through a | ||||||
| 7 | regionally accredited institution of higher education that may | ||||||
| 8 | be applied toward a master's degree, education specialist | ||||||
| 9 | degree, or doctoral degree. | ||||||
| 10 | "Instructor of record" means an individual assigned the | ||||||
| 11 | responsibility for academic oversight of a continuing | ||||||
| 12 | education course, including instruction, evaluation and | ||||||
| 13 | feedback of participant work, and the assignment of grades, | ||||||
| 14 | who: | ||||||
| 15 | (1) is a credentialed educator holding a master's | ||||||
| 16 | degree or higher and is academically qualified to teach | ||||||
| 17 | the continuing education course, with demonstrated | ||||||
| 18 | experience in the content area or areas of the continuing | ||||||
| 19 | education course; | ||||||
| 20 | (2) provides substantive instructional support to a | ||||||
| 21 | participating licensed classroom teacher throughout the | ||||||
| 22 | period of continuing education course enrollment; and | ||||||
| 23 | (3) evaluates participant work and provides | ||||||
| 24 | individualized, written feedback aligned to continuing | ||||||
| 25 | education course objectives. | ||||||
| 26 | "Licensed classroom teacher" means an individual holding a | ||||||
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| 1 | valid and current Professional Educator License under Section | ||||||
| 2 | 21B-20. "Licensed classroom teacher" does not include any | ||||||
| 3 | individual who is an administrator or is not covered by a | ||||||
| 4 | collective bargaining agreement pertaining to teachers. | ||||||
| 5 | (b) This Section applies only to licensed classroom | ||||||
| 6 | teachers who have the ability, under the terms of a collective | ||||||
| 7 | bargaining agreement, employment contract, school board | ||||||
| 8 | policy, or salary schedule, to achieve salary advancement | ||||||
| 9 | through continuing education coursework. | ||||||
| 10 | (c) Beginning with continuing education coursework | ||||||
| 11 | completed on or after July 1, 2026, a school district, special | ||||||
| 12 | education cooperative, or other public educational employer | ||||||
| 13 | may provide salary advancement to licensed classroom teachers | ||||||
| 14 | for the completion of continuing education coursework. The | ||||||
| 15 | school district, special education cooperative, or other | ||||||
| 16 | public educational employer may recognize continuing education | ||||||
| 17 | coursework for purposes of salary advancement only if the | ||||||
| 18 | continuing education coursework: | ||||||
| 19 | (1) is graduate-level, degree-eligible credit offered | ||||||
| 20 | through a regionally accredited institution of higher | ||||||
| 21 | education and documented on an official academic | ||||||
| 22 | transcript; and | ||||||
| 23 | (2) includes an instructor of record. | ||||||
| 24 | (d) Nothing in this Section requires a school district, | ||||||
| 25 | special education cooperative, or other public educational | ||||||
| 26 | employer to create a salary schedule or salary advancement | ||||||
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| 1 | pathway if one does not otherwise exist. | ||||||
| 2 | (e) Nothing in this Section precludes the parties to a | ||||||
| 3 | collectively bargained agreement from negotiating salary | ||||||
| 4 | advancement or other compensation-related advancements under | ||||||
| 5 | the collectively bargained agreement for other negotiated | ||||||
| 6 | actions or activities by a licensed classroom teacher not set | ||||||
| 7 | forth in this Section. | ||||||
| 8 | (f) Implementation of this Section, including standards | ||||||
| 9 | for documentation, transcript verification, institutional | ||||||
| 10 | accreditation, salary advancement, and compliance monitoring, | ||||||
| 11 | shall be determined by each school district, special education | ||||||
| 12 | cooperative, or other public educational employer. | ||||||
| 13 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 14 | becoming law.". | ||||||
