Bill Text: IL HB5537 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that for the purposes of calculating the paid sick leave for the birth of a child or the adoption or placement for adoption of a child: the days do not have to be taken immediately after the birth of the child or the adoption or placement of the child; the days do not have to be taken consecutively; and the school board may not count any day in which school is not in session, including an extended break.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5537 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB5537-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 24-6 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/24-6)
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7 | Sec. 24-6. Sick leave. The school boards of all school | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | districts, including special charter
districts, but not | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | including school districts in municipalities of 500,000
or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | more, shall grant their full-time teachers, and also shall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | grant
such of their other employees as are eligible to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | participate in the
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund under the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | "600-Hour Standard"
established, or under such other | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | eligibility participation standard as may
from time to time be | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | established, by rules and regulations now or hereafter
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16 | promulgated by the Board of that Fund under Section 7-198 of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | the Illinois
Pension Code, as now or hereafter amended, sick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | leave
provisions not less in amount than 10 days at full pay in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | each school year.
If any such teacher or employee does not use | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | the full amount of annual leave
thus allowed, the unused amount | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum
available leave of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | 180 days at full pay, including the leave of the current
year. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Sick leave shall be interpreted to mean personal illness, |
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1 | quarantine
at home, serious illness or death in the immediate | ||||||
2 | family or household, or
birth, adoption, or placement for | ||||||
3 | adoption.
The school board may require a certificate from a | ||||||
4 | physician licensed in Illinois to practice medicine and surgery | ||||||
5 | in all its branches, a chiropractic physician licensed under | ||||||
6 | the Medical Practice Act of 1987, a licensed advanced practice | ||||||
7 | registered nurse, a licensed physician assistant, or, if the | ||||||
8 | treatment
is by prayer or spiritual means, a spiritual adviser | ||||||
9 | or
practitioner of the teacher's or employee's faith as a basis | ||||||
10 | for pay during leave after
an absence of 3 days for personal | ||||||
11 | illness or 30 days for birth or as the school board may deem | ||||||
12 | necessary in
other cases. If the school board does require a
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13 | certificate
as a basis for pay during leave of
less than 3 days | ||||||
14 | for personal illness, the school board shall pay, from school | ||||||
15 | funds, the
expenses incurred by the teachers or other employees | ||||||
16 | in obtaining the certificate. For paid leave for adoption or | ||||||
17 | placement for adoption, the school board may require that the | ||||||
18 | teacher or other employee provide evidence that the formal | ||||||
19 | adoption process is underway, and such leave is limited to 30 | ||||||
20 | days unless a longer leave has been negotiated with the | ||||||
21 | exclusive bargaining representative.
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22 | For the purposes of calculating the paid sick leave for the | ||||||
23 | birth of a child or the adoption or placement for adoption of a | ||||||
24 | child: | ||||||
25 | (1) the days do not have to be taken immediately after | ||||||
26 | the birth of the child or the adoption or placement of the |
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1 | child; | ||||||
2 | (2) the days do not have to be taken consecutively; and | ||||||
3 | (3) the school board may not count any day in which | ||||||
4 | school is not in session, including an extended break. | ||||||
5 | If, by reason of any change in the boundaries of school | ||||||
6 | districts, or by
reason of the creation of a new school | ||||||
7 | district, the employment of a
teacher is transferred to a new | ||||||
8 | or different board, the accumulated sick
leave of such teacher | ||||||
9 | is not thereby lost, but is transferred to such new
or | ||||||
10 | different district.
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11 | For purposes of this Section, "immediate family" shall | ||||||
12 | include parents,
spouse, brothers, sisters, children, | ||||||
13 | grandparents, grandchildren,
parents-in-law, brothers-in-law, | ||||||
14 | sisters-in-law, and legal guardians.
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15 | (Source: P.A. 99-173, eff. 7-29-15; 100-513, eff. 1-1-18 .)
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