Bill Text: IL SB3376 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that the changes made by Public Act 96-431 to the ineligibility of a person to work in a school while serving first offender probation are declaratory of existing law. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-08 - Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB3376 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-SB3376-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 | 21-23a as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/21-23a) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-23a)
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7 | Sec. 21-23a. Conviction of certain offenses as grounds for | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | revocation
of certificate. | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | (a) Whenever the holder of any certificate issued pursuant
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10 | to this Article has been convicted of any sex offense or | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | narcotics offense
as defined in this Section, the State
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12 | Superintendent
of Education shall forthwith suspend the | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | certificate. If the conviction
is reversed and the holder is | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | acquitted of the offense in a new trial or
the charges against | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | him are dismissed, the suspending authority shall forthwith
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16 | terminate the suspension of the certificate. When the | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | conviction becomes
final, the State Superintendent of | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | Education shall forthwith revoke the
certificate. | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | "Sex offense" as used in this Section means any one or more
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20 | of the following offenses: (1) any offense defined in Sections | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | 11-6 and
11-9 through 11-9.5, inclusive, Sections 11-14 through | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | 11-21, inclusive, Sections 11-23 (if punished as a Class 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | felony), 11-24, 11-25, and 11-26, and Sections 12-4.9,
12-13, |
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1 | 12-14,
12-14.1,
12-15, 12-16, 12-32, and 12-33 of the Criminal | ||||||
2 | Code of 1961; (2) any
attempt to commit any of the foregoing | ||||||
3 | offenses, and (3) any offense committed
or attempted in any | ||||||
4 | other state which, if committed or attempted in this
State, | ||||||
5 | would have been punishable as one or more of the foregoing
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6 | offenses. | ||||||
7 | "Narcotics offense" as used in this Section
means any one | ||||||
8 | or more of the following offenses: (1) any offense defined
in | ||||||
9 | the Cannabis Control Act, except those defined in Sections | ||||||
10 | 4(a), 4(b)
and 5(a) of that Act and any offense for which the | ||||||
11 | holder of any certificate
is placed on probation under the | ||||||
12 | provisions of Section 10 of that Act, provided that if the | ||||||
13 | terms and conditions of probation required by the court are not | ||||||
14 | fulfilled, the offense is not eligible for this exception; (2) | ||||||
15 | any offense defined in the Illinois Controlled
Substances Act, | ||||||
16 | except any offense for which the holder of any certificate
is | ||||||
17 | placed on probation under the provisions of Section 410 of that | ||||||
18 | Act, provided that if the terms and conditions of probation | ||||||
19 | required by the court are not fulfilled, the offense is not | ||||||
20 | eligible for this exception; (3) any offense defined in the | ||||||
21 | Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act, except | ||||||
22 | any offense for which the holder of any certificate is placed | ||||||
23 | on probation under the provision of Section 70 of that Act, | ||||||
24 | provided that if the terms and conditions of probation required | ||||||
25 | by the court are not fulfilled, the offense is not eligible for | ||||||
26 | this exception; (4) any attempt to commit any of the foregoing |
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1 | offenses; and (5)
any offense committed or attempted in any | ||||||
2 | other state or against the laws
of the United States which, if | ||||||
3 | committed or attempted in this State, would
have been | ||||||
4 | punishable as one or more of the foregoing offenses. The | ||||||
5 | changes made by Public Act 96-431 this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
6 | 96th General Assembly to the definition of "narcotics offense" | ||||||
7 | and to the ineligibility of a person to work in a school while | ||||||
8 | serving first offender probation in this subsection (a) are | ||||||
9 | declaratory of existing law.
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10 | (b) Whenever the holder of a certificate issued pursuant to | ||||||
11 | this Article
has been convicted of first degree murder, | ||||||
12 | attempted first degree murder, conspiracy to commit first | ||||||
13 | degree murder, attempted conspiracy to commit first degree | ||||||
14 | murder, or a
Class X felony or any offense committed or | ||||||
15 | attempted in any other state or against the laws of the United | ||||||
16 | States that, if committed or attempted in this State, would | ||||||
17 | have been punishable as one or more of the foregoing offenses, | ||||||
18 | the State Superintendent of
Education shall forthwith suspend | ||||||
19 | the certificate. If the conviction is
reversed and the holder | ||||||
20 | is acquitted of that offense in a new trial or the
charges that | ||||||
21 | he or she committed that offense are dismissed, the State | ||||||
22 | Superintendent of Education shall forthwith terminate the | ||||||
23 | suspension of the certificate. When
the conviction becomes | ||||||
24 | final, the State Superintendent of Education shall
forthwith | ||||||
25 | revoke the certificate.
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26 | (Source: P.A. 96-431, eff. 8-13-09.)
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1 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
2 | becoming law.
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