Public Act 101-0663
 
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    AN ACT concerning education.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is
amended by adding Section 4.10 as follows:
 
    (115 ILCS 5/4.10 new)
    Sec. 4.10. Length of work as subject of collective
bargaining.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or
other law to the contrary, with respect to a school district
organized under Article 34 of the School Code only, collective
bargaining between an educational employer and an exclusive
representative of its employees may include decisions to
determine the length of the work and school day and the length
of the work and school year.
    (b) The subject or matters described in subsection (a) are
permissive subjects of bargaining between the educational
employer and an exclusive representative of its employees and,
for the purpose of this Act, are within the sole discretion of
the educational employer to decide to bargain, provided that
the educational employer is required to bargain over the impact
of a decision concerning the subject or matter on the
bargaining unit upon request of the exclusive representative
under Section 10.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law, but this Act does not take effect at all unless
House Bill 2275 of the 101st General Assembly, in the form in
which it passed the House on March 28, 2019, becomes law.