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| Public Act 096-0051 |
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||
24-6 as follows:
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(105 ILCS 5/24-6) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-6)
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Sec. 24-6. Sick leave. The school boards of all school | ||||
districts, including special charter
districts, but not | ||||
including school districts in municipalities of 500,000
or | ||||
more, shall grant their full-time teachers, and also shall | ||||
grant
such of their other employees as are eligible to | ||||
participate in the
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund under the | ||||
"600-Hour Standard"
established, or under such other | ||||
eligibility participation standard as may
from time to time be | ||||
established, by rules and regulations now or hereafter
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promulgated by the Board of that Fund under Section 7-198 of | ||||
the Illinois
Pension Code, as now or hereafter amended, sick | ||||
leave
provisions not less in amount than 10 days at full pay in | ||||
each school year.
If any such teacher or employee does not use | ||||
the full amount of annual leave
thus allowed, the unused amount | ||||
shall be allowed to accumulate to a minimum
available leave of | ||||
180 days at full pay, including the leave of the current
year. | ||||
Sick leave shall be interpreted to mean personal illness, | ||||
quarantine
at home, serious illness or death in the immediate | ||
family or household, or
birth, adoption, or placement for | ||
adoption.
The school board may require a certificate from a | ||
physician licensed in Illinois to practice medicine and surgery | ||
in all its branches, an advanced practice nurse who has a | ||
written collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician | ||
that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to perform health | ||
examinations, or a physician assistant who has been delegated | ||
the authority to perform health examinations by his or her | ||
supervising physician, or, if the treatment
is by prayer or | ||
spiritual means, that of a spiritual adviser or
practitioner of | ||
the teacher's or employee's such person's faith, as a basis for | ||
pay during leave after
an absence of 3 days for personal | ||
illness or 30 days for birth , or as the school board it may | ||
deem necessary in
other cases. If the school board does require | ||
a
certificate
as a basis for pay during leave of
less than 3 | ||
days for personal illness, the school board shall pay, from | ||
school funds, the
expenses incurred by the teachers or other | ||
employees in obtaining the certificate. For paid leave for | ||
adoption or placement for adoption, the school board may | ||
require that the teacher or other employee provide evidence | ||
that the formal adoption process is underway, and such leave is | ||
limited to 30 days unless a longer leave has been negotiated | ||
with the exclusive bargaining representative.
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If, by reason of any change in the boundaries of school | ||
districts, or by
reason of the creation of a new school | ||
district, the employment of a
teacher is transferred to a new | ||
or different board, the accumulated sick
leave of such teacher | ||
is not thereby lost, but is transferred to such new
or | ||
different district.
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For purposes of this Section, "immediate family" shall | ||
include parents,
spouse, brothers, sisters, children, | ||
grandparents, grandchildren,
parents-in-law, brothers-in-law, | ||
sisters-in-law, and legal guardians.
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(Source: P.A. 94-350, eff. 7-28-05; 95-151, eff. 8-14-07.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||
becoming law.
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