Bill Text: IL HB4056 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the Block Grants for Chicago Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2012-2013 school year, the district shall submit application, approval data, and claim information in the same manner and format as all other school districts for programs provided in the general education and educational services block grant. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4056 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB4056-Amended.html

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Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia

Filed: 3/26/2012

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4056
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4056, AS AMENDED, by
replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
following:
"Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
10-22.23 and by adding Section 10-22.23b as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/10-22.23) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.23)
Sec. 10-22.23. School Nurse. To employ a registered
professional nurse and define the duties of the school nurse
within the guidelines of rules and regulations promulgated by
the State Board of Education. Any school nurse first employed
on or after July 1, 1976, whose duties require teaching or the
exercise of instructional judgment or educational evaluation
of pupils, must be certificated under Section 21-25 of this
Act. School districts may employ non-certificated registered
professional nurses to perform professional nursing services.

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In addition, non-certified registered professional nurses may
be contracted for as provided in Section 10-22.23b of this
Code.
(Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
(105 ILCS 5/10-22.23b new)
Sec. 10-22.23b. Nurse; contracting for medical review
services.
(a) In this Section:
"Certified school nurse" means a nurse who is certified
under Section 21-25 of this Code, holding a school service
personnel certificate endorsed for school nursing.
"Medical review" means a review that is done as part of the
special education evaluation process and includes the
evaluation of whether a child has a disability and
recommendations as to the nature and extent of the special
education and related services that the child needs, as well as
the interpretation of health histories and the assessment of
medical needs, and as otherwise may be further defined by law.
"Reasonable efforts" means performing all of the
following:
(1) placing at least 3 employment advertisements for a
certified school nurse for publication in the newspaper of
widest distribution within the school district or
cooperative;
(2) placing one employment listing for a certified

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school nurse in the placement bulletin of a college or
university that has a certified school nurse curriculum and
that is located in the geographic area of the school
district or cooperative, if any;
(3) providing the advertisement to the Department of
Humans Services for placement on its employment list, if
any, for at least 30 days; and
(4) posting the position for certified school nurse on
the Illinois Association of School Administrators' job
placement service for at least 30 days and simultaneously
providing the posting to the local union representative, if
any, for distribution by the union.
(b) A school district or a cooperative must make reasonable
efforts to employ a certified school nurse to conduct medical
reviews, except as provided in subsection (d) of this Section.
While making those reasonable efforts or after unsuccessful
reasonable efforts have been made or both, a school district or
cooperative may contract for medical review services with a
registered professional nurse licensed under Article 60 of the
Nurse Practice Act. Prior to any such contract being entered
into, the school board must approve a resolution that certifies
that reasonable efforts were performed and that there were no
qualified applicants, or, for a temporary contract while
reasonable efforts are being made, the resolution must certify
that reasonable efforts are currently underway and that an
immediate need exists to hire a registered professional nurse

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licensed under Article 60 of the Nurse Practice Act. The school
board must then submit the resolution to the State Board of
Education for the State Board's review and approval. The school
board must not finalize and approve the contract until the
State Board of Education gives the school district the
authority to enter into the contract.
(c) A registered professional nurse licensed under Article
60 of the Nurse Practice Act who provides medical review
services pursuant to a contract under subsection (b) of this
Section must have at least 5 years of experience working as a
registered professional nurse and must become a certified
school nurse no later than 3 years after beginning work with
the school district or cooperative.
(d) In lieu of employing a certified school nurse under
subsection (b) of this Section, medical reviews may be
performed by an individual licensed to practice medicine in all
of its branches or an advanced practice nurse licensed to
practice under Article 65 of the Nurse Practice Act who has a
written collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician
that delegates the authority to provide a medical review.
(e) Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a school
district from contracting with another school district to
utilize the services of a certified school nurse or an advanced
practice nurse licensed to practice under Article 65 of the
Nurse Practice Act who has a written collaborative agreement
with a collaborating physician that delegates the authority to

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provide a medical review.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".