Bill Text: IL HB5015 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Visitation Rights Act. Provides that an employer that terminates an employee for absences to attend school conferences is liable in a civil action for damages resulting to the employee. Imposes upon the employer the burden of proof to demonstrate that termination is not related to an employee's absence for attendance at a school conference, behavioral meeting, or academic meeting. Effective August 1, 2020.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5015 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5015-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5015 Introduced , by Rep. Anne Stava-Murray SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 147/35
Amends the School Visitation Rights Act. Provides that an employer that terminates an employee for absences to attend school conferences is liable in a civil action for damages resulting to the employee. Imposes upon the employer the burden of proof to demonstrate that termination is not related to an employee's absence for attendance as a school conference, behavioral meeting, or academic meeting. Effective August 1, 2020.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning employment.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Visitation Rights Act is amended by
changing Section 35 as follows:
(820 ILCS 147/35)
(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 101-486)
Sec. 35. Employee rights. No employee shall lose any
employee benefits, except as provided for in Section 20 of this
Act, for exercising his or her rights under this Act. Nothing
in this Act shall be construed to affect an employer's
obligation to comply with any collective bargaining agreement
or employee benefit plan. Nothing in this Act shall prevent an
employer from providing school visitation rights in excess of
the requirements of this Act. The rights afforded by this Act
shall not be diminished by any collective bargaining act or by
any employee benefit plan.
(Source: P.A. 87-1240.)
(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 101-486)
Sec. 35. Employee rights.
(a) No employee shall lose any employee benefits, except as
provided for in Section 20 of this Act, for exercising his or

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her rights under this Act. Nothing in this Act shall be
construed to affect an employer's obligation to comply with any
collective bargaining agreement or employee benefit plan.
Nothing in this Act shall prevent an employer from providing
school visitation rights in excess of the requirements of this
Act. The rights afforded by this Act shall not be diminished by
any collective bargaining act or by any employee benefit plan.
(b) An employer may not terminate an employee for an
absence from work if the absence is due solely to the
employee's attendance at a school conference, behavioral
meeting, or academic meeting, as provided in Section 15.
(c) An employer violating subsection (b) is liable in a
civil action for damages resulting to the employee. The
employer has the burden of proof to demonstrate that
termination is not related to an employee's absence for
attendance as a school conference, behavioral meeting, or
academic meeting.
(Source: P.A. 101-486, eff. 8-1-20.)
Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes
changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text
that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section
represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does
not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes
made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other
Public Act.

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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect August 1,
2020.