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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 Department of State Police Law of the
Civil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | 2605-325 as follows: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | (20 ILCS 2605/2605-325) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)
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8 | Sec. 2605-325. Conviction , sex offender registration, and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | order of protection information for school board or regional
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10 | superintendent. On request of a school board or regional
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11 | superintendent of schools,
to conduct a fingerprint-based | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | criminal history records check , a check of sex offender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | registration data, as authorized by the Sex Offender and Child | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Murderer Community Notification Law, and a check of all valid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | and recorded orders of protection issued under the Illinois | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Domestic Violence Act of 1986 pursuant to Section 10-21.9 or
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17 | 34-18.5 of the School
Code. The Department shall furnish the
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18 | conviction , sex offender registration, and order of protection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | information to the president of the school board of the school
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20 | district that has requested the information or, if the
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21 | information was
requested by the regional superintendent, to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | that regional superintendent.
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23 | (Source: P.A. 93-909, eff. 8-12-04.)
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24 | Section 10. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | 2-3.51.5, 10-21.9, 27A-5, and 34-18.5 as follows:
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26 | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.51.5)
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27 | Sec. 2-3.51.5. School Safety and Educational Improvement | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Block Grant
Program. To improve the level of education and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | safety of students from
kindergarten through grade 12 in school | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | districts. The State Board of
Education is authorized to fund a |
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1 | School Safety and Educational Improvement
Block Grant Program.
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2 | (1) The program shall provide funding for school safety, | ||||||
3 | textbooks and
software, teacher training and curriculum | ||||||
4 | development, school improvements, remediation programs under | ||||||
5 | subsection (a) of Section 2-3.64, school
report cards under | ||||||
6 | Section 10-17a, and criminal history records checks , sex | ||||||
7 | offender registration data checks, and orders of protection | ||||||
8 | records checks
under Sections 10-21.9 and 34-18.5. A school | ||||||
9 | district
or laboratory school as defined in Section 18-8 or | ||||||
10 | 18-8.05 is not required
to file an application in order to | ||||||
11 | receive the categorical funding to which it
is entitled under | ||||||
12 | this Section. Funds for the School Safety and Educational
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13 | Improvement Block Grant Program shall be distributed to school | ||||||
14 | districts and
laboratory schools based on the prior year's best | ||||||
15 | 3 months average daily
attendance. The State Board of Education | ||||||
16 | shall promulgate rules and
regulations necessary for the | ||||||
17 | implementation of this program.
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18 | (2) Distribution of moneys to school districts shall be | ||||||
19 | made in 2
semi-annual installments, one payment on or before | ||||||
20 | October 30, and one
payment prior to April 30, of each fiscal | ||||||
21 | year.
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22 | (3) Grants under the School Safety and Educational | ||||||
23 | Improvement Block Grant
Program shall be awarded provided there | ||||||
24 | is an appropriation for the program,
and funding levels for | ||||||
25 | each district shall be prorated according to the amount
of the | ||||||
26 | appropriation.
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27 | (Source: P.A. 93-909, eff. 8-12-04.)
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28 | (105 ILCS 5/10-21.9) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.9)
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29 | Sec. 10-21.9. Criminal history records checks , sex | ||||||
30 | offender registration data checks, and orders of protection | ||||||
31 | records checks .
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32 | (a) Certified and noncertified applicants for employment | ||||||
33 | with a school
district, except school bus driver applicants, | ||||||
34 | are required as a condition
of employment to authorize a | ||||||
35 | fingerprint-based criminal history records check to determine |
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1 | if such applicants have been convicted of any of
the enumerated | ||||||
2 | criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) of this Section or
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3 | have been convicted, within 7 years of the application for | ||||||
4 | employment with
the
school district, of any other felony under | ||||||
5 | the laws of this State or of any
offense committed or attempted | ||||||
6 | in any other state or against the laws of
the United States | ||||||
7 | that, if committed or attempted in this State, would
have been | ||||||
8 | punishable as a felony under the laws of this State.
An | ||||||
9 | applicant must also authorize a check of sex offender | ||||||
10 | registration data, as authorized by the Sex Offender and Child | ||||||
11 | Murderer Community Notification Law, to determine if he or she | ||||||
12 | has ever been required to register as a sex offender under the | ||||||
13 | Sex Offender Registration Act, and a check of all valid and | ||||||
14 | recorded orders of protection issued under the Illinois | ||||||
15 | Domestic Violence Act of 1986 to determine if an order of | ||||||
16 | protection has ever been filed against an applicant. | ||||||
17 | Authorization for each
the check shall be furnished by the | ||||||
18 | applicant to
the school district, except that if the applicant | ||||||
19 | is a substitute teacher
seeking employment in more than one | ||||||
20 | school district, a teacher seeking
concurrent part-time | ||||||
21 | employment positions with more than one school
district (as a | ||||||
22 | reading specialist, special education teacher or otherwise),
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23 | or an educational support personnel employee seeking | ||||||
24 | employment positions
with more than one district, any such | ||||||
25 | district may require the applicant to
furnish authorization for | ||||||
26 | each
the check to the regional superintendent
of the | ||||||
27 | educational service region in which are located the school | ||||||
28 | districts
in which the applicant is seeking employment as a | ||||||
29 | substitute or concurrent
part-time teacher or concurrent | ||||||
30 | educational support personnel employee.
Upon receipt of this | ||||||
31 | authorization, the school district or the appropriate
regional | ||||||
32 | superintendent, as the case may be, shall submit the | ||||||
33 | applicant's
name, sex, race, date of birth, social security | ||||||
34 | number, fingerprint images, and other identifiers, as | ||||||
35 | prescribed by the Department
of State Police, to the | ||||||
36 | Department. The regional
superintendent submitting the |
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1 | requisite information to the Department of
State Police shall | ||||||
2 | promptly notify the school districts in which the
applicant is | ||||||
3 | seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time
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4 | teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee | ||||||
5 | that each
the
check of the applicant has been requested. The | ||||||
6 | Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of | ||||||
7 | Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based | ||||||
8 | criminal history records check, records of convictions, until | ||||||
9 | expunged, to the president of the school board for the school | ||||||
10 | district that requested the criminal history records check, or | ||||||
11 | to the regional superintendent who requested the check.
The | ||||||
12 | Department of State Police shall furnish, pursuant to the Sex | ||||||
13 | Offender and Child Murderer Community Notification Law, any | ||||||
14 | record of an applicant's registration or of an applicant being | ||||||
15 | required to register under Section 3 of the Sex Offender | ||||||
16 | Registration Act to the president of the school board for the | ||||||
17 | school district that requested the sex offender registration | ||||||
18 | data check, or to the regional superintendent who requested the | ||||||
19 | check. The Department of State Police shall furnish, pursuant | ||||||
20 | to a check of the Law Enforcement Automated Data System, | ||||||
21 | records of all valid and recorded orders of protection issued | ||||||
22 | under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 to the | ||||||
23 | president of the school board for the school district that | ||||||
24 | requested the orders of protection records check, or to the | ||||||
25 | regional superintendent who requested the check. The
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26 | Department shall charge
the school district
or the appropriate | ||||||
27 | regional superintendent a fee for
conducting each
such check, | ||||||
28 | which fee shall be deposited in the State
Police Services Fund | ||||||
29 | and shall not exceed the cost of
the inquiry; and the
applicant | ||||||
30 | shall not be charged a fee for any
such check by the school
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31 | district or by the regional superintendent. Subject to | ||||||
32 | appropriations for these purposes, the State Superintendent of | ||||||
33 | Education shall reimburse school districts and regional | ||||||
34 | superintendents for fees paid to obtain criminal history | ||||||
35 | records checks , sex offender registration data checks, and | ||||||
36 | orders of protection records checks under this Section.
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1 | (b)
Any information
concerning the record of convictions , | ||||||
2 | sex offender registration, or orders of protection obtained by | ||||||
3 | the president of the
school board or the regional | ||||||
4 | superintendent shall be confidential and may
only be | ||||||
5 | transmitted to the superintendent of the school district or his
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6 | designee, the appropriate regional superintendent if a
the | ||||||
7 | check was
requested by the school district, the presidents of | ||||||
8 | the appropriate school
boards if a
the check was requested from | ||||||
9 | the Department of State
Police by the regional superintendent, | ||||||
10 | the State Superintendent of
Education, the State Teacher | ||||||
11 | Certification Board or any other person
necessary to the | ||||||
12 | decision of hiring the applicant for employment. A copy
of the | ||||||
13 | record of convictions , sex offender registration, and orders of | ||||||
14 | protection obtained from the Department of State Police
shall | ||||||
15 | be provided to the applicant for employment. If a check of
an | ||||||
16 | applicant for employment as a substitute or concurrent | ||||||
17 | part-time teacher
or concurrent educational support personnel | ||||||
18 | employee in more than one
school district was requested by the | ||||||
19 | regional superintendent, and the
Department of State Police | ||||||
20 | upon a check ascertains that the applicant
has not been | ||||||
21 | convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug offenses
in | ||||||
22 | subsection (c) ,
or has not been convicted, within 7 years of | ||||||
23 | the
application for
employment with the
school district, of any | ||||||
24 | other felony under the laws of this State or of any
offense | ||||||
25 | committed or attempted in any other state or against the laws | ||||||
26 | of
the United States that, if committed or attempted in this | ||||||
27 | State, would
have been punishable as a felony under the laws of | ||||||
28 | this State , has not been required to register as a sex offender | ||||||
29 | under the Sex Offender Registration Act, and has not had an | ||||||
30 | order of protection filed against him or her
and so notifies | ||||||
31 | the regional
superintendent, then the
regional superintendent | ||||||
32 | shall issue to the applicant a certificate
evidencing that as | ||||||
33 | of the date specified by the Department of State Police
the | ||||||
34 | applicant has not been convicted of any of the enumerated | ||||||
35 | criminal or
drug offenses in subsection (c) ,
or has not been
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36 | convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment |
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1 | with the
school district, of any other felony under the laws of | ||||||
2 | this State or of any
offense committed or attempted in any | ||||||
3 | other state or against the laws of
the United States that, if | ||||||
4 | committed or attempted in this State, would
have been | ||||||
5 | punishable as a felony under the laws of this State , has not | ||||||
6 | been required to register as a sex offender under the Sex | ||||||
7 | Offender Registration Act, and has not had an order of | ||||||
8 | protection filed against him or her . The school
board of
any
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9 | school district
located in the educational service region | ||||||
10 | served by the regional
superintendent who issues such a | ||||||
11 | certificate to an applicant for employment
as a substitute | ||||||
12 | teacher in more than one such district may rely on the
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13 | certificate issued by the regional superintendent to that | ||||||
14 | applicant, or may
initiate its own criminal history records , | ||||||
15 | sex offender registration data, or orders of protection records | ||||||
16 | check of the applicant through the Department of
State Police | ||||||
17 | as provided in subsection (a). Any person who releases any
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18 | confidential information concerning any criminal convictions , | ||||||
19 | sex offender registration, or orders of protection of an
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20 | applicant for employment shall be guilty of a Class A | ||||||
21 | misdemeanor, unless
the release of such information is | ||||||
22 | authorized by this Section.
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23 | (c) No school board shall knowingly employ a person who has | ||||||
24 | been
convicted for committing attempted first degree murder or | ||||||
25 | for committing or
attempting to commit first degree murder or a | ||||||
26 | Class X felony or any one or
more of the
following offenses: | ||||||
27 | (i) those defined in Sections 11-6, 11-9, 11-14, 11-15,
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28 | 11-15.1, 11-16, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 11-19.1, 11-19.2, 11-20, | ||||||
29 | 11-20.1,
11-21, 12-13, 12-14,
12-14.1,
12-15 and 12-16 of the | ||||||
30 | "Criminal Code of 1961"; (ii)
those defined in the "Cannabis | ||||||
31 | Control Act" except those defined in Sections
4(a), 4(b) and | ||||||
32 | 5(a) of that Act; (iii) those defined in the "Illinois
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33 | Controlled Substances Act"; and (iv) any
offense committed or | ||||||
34 | attempted in
any other state or against the laws of the United | ||||||
35 | States, which if
committed or attempted in this State, would | ||||||
36 | have been punishable as one or
more of the foregoing offenses.
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1 | Further, no school board shall knowingly employ a person who | ||||||
2 | has been found
to be the perpetrator of sexual or physical | ||||||
3 | abuse of any minor under 18 years
of age pursuant to | ||||||
4 | proceedings under Article II of the Juvenile Court Act of
1987.
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5 | (d) No school board shall knowingly employ a person for | ||||||
6 | whom a criminal
history records check , a sex offender | ||||||
7 | registration data check, and an orders of protection records | ||||||
8 | check has not been initiated.
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9 | (e) Upon receipt of the record of a conviction of or a | ||||||
10 | finding of child
abuse by a holder of any
certificate issued | ||||||
11 | pursuant to Article 21 or Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the
School | ||||||
12 | Code, the appropriate regional superintendent of schools or the
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13 | State Superintendent of Education shall initiate the | ||||||
14 | certificate suspension
and revocation proceedings authorized | ||||||
15 | by law.
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16 | (f) After January 1, 1990 the provisions of this Section | ||||||
17 | shall apply
to all employees of persons or firms holding | ||||||
18 | contracts with any school
district including, but not limited | ||||||
19 | to, food service workers, school bus
drivers and other | ||||||
20 | transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact
with | ||||||
21 | the pupils of any school in such district. For purposes of | ||||||
22 | criminal
history records checks , sex offender registration | ||||||
23 | data checks, and orders of protection records checks on | ||||||
24 | employees of persons or firms holding
contracts with more than | ||||||
25 | one school district and assigned to more than one
school | ||||||
26 | district, the regional superintendent of the educational | ||||||
27 | service
region in which the contracting school districts are | ||||||
28 | located may, at the
request of any such school district, be | ||||||
29 | responsible for receiving the
authorization for each
a check | ||||||
30 | prepared by each such employee and
submitting the same to the | ||||||
31 | Department of State Police. Any information
concerning the | ||||||
32 | record of conviction , sex offender registration, or orders of | ||||||
33 | protection of any such employee obtained by the
regional | ||||||
34 | superintendent shall be promptly reported to the president of | ||||||
35 | the
appropriate school board or school boards.
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36 | (Source: P.A. 93-418, eff. 1-1-04; 93-909, eff. 8-12-04.)
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1 | (105 ILCS 5/27A-5)
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2 | Sec. 27A-5. Charter school; legal entity; requirements.
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3 | (a) A charter school shall be a public, nonsectarian, | ||||||
4 | nonreligious, non-home
based, and non-profit school. A charter | ||||||
5 | school shall be organized and operated
as a nonprofit | ||||||
6 | corporation or other discrete, legal, nonprofit entity
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7 | authorized under the laws of the State of Illinois.
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8 | (b) A charter school may be established under this Article | ||||||
9 | by creating a new
school or by converting an existing public | ||||||
10 | school or attendance center to
charter
school status.
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11 | Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
12 | 93rd General
Assembly, in all new
applications submitted to the | ||||||
13 | State Board or a local school board to establish
a charter
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14 | school in a city having a population exceeding 500,000, | ||||||
15 | operation of the
charter
school shall be limited to one campus. | ||||||
16 | The changes made to this Section by this
amendatory Act
of the | ||||||
17 | 93rd General
Assembly do not apply to charter schools existing | ||||||
18 | or approved on or before the
effective date of this
amendatory | ||||||
19 | Act.
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20 | (c) A charter school shall be administered and governed by | ||||||
21 | its board of
directors or other governing body
in the manner | ||||||
22 | provided in its charter. The governing body of a charter school
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23 | shall be subject to the Freedom of Information Act and the Open | ||||||
24 | Meetings Act.
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25 | (d) A charter school shall comply with all applicable | ||||||
26 | health and safety
requirements applicable to public schools | ||||||
27 | under the laws of the State of
Illinois.
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28 | (e) Except as otherwise provided in the School Code, a | ||||||
29 | charter school shall
not charge tuition; provided that a | ||||||
30 | charter school may charge reasonable fees
for textbooks, | ||||||
31 | instructional materials, and student activities.
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32 | (f) A charter school shall be responsible for the | ||||||
33 | management and operation
of its fiscal affairs including,
but | ||||||
34 | not limited to, the preparation of its budget. An audit of each | ||||||
35 | charter
school's finances shall be conducted annually by an |
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1 | outside, independent
contractor retained by the charter | ||||||
2 | school.
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3 | (g) A charter school shall comply with all provisions of | ||||||
4 | this Article and
its charter. A charter
school is exempt from | ||||||
5 | all other State laws and regulations in the School Code
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6 | governing public
schools and local school board policies, | ||||||
7 | except the following:
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8 | (1) Sections 10-21.9 and 34-18.5 of the School Code | ||||||
9 | regarding criminal
history records checks , sex offender | ||||||
10 | registration data checks, and orders of protection records | ||||||
11 | checks of applicants for employment;
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12 | (2) Sections 24-24 and 34-84A of the School Code | ||||||
13 | regarding discipline of
students;
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14 | (3) The Local Governmental and Governmental Employees | ||||||
15 | Tort Immunity Act;
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16 | (4) Section 108.75 of the General Not For Profit | ||||||
17 | Corporation Act of 1986
regarding indemnification of | ||||||
18 | officers, directors, employees, and agents;
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19 | (5) The Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act;
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20 | (6) The Illinois School Student Records Act; and
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21 | (7) Section 10-17a of the School Code regarding school | ||||||
22 | report cards.
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23 | (h) A charter school may negotiate and contract with a | ||||||
24 | school district, the
governing body of a State college or | ||||||
25 | university or public community college, or
any other public or | ||||||
26 | for-profit or nonprofit private entity for: (i) the use
of a | ||||||
27 | school building and grounds or any other real property or | ||||||
28 | facilities that
the charter school desires to use or convert | ||||||
29 | for use as a charter school site,
(ii) the operation and | ||||||
30 | maintenance thereof, and
(iii) the provision of any service, | ||||||
31 | activity, or undertaking that the charter
school is required to | ||||||
32 | perform in order to carry out the terms of its charter.
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33 | However, a charter school
that is established on
or
after the | ||||||
34 | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General
| ||||||
35 | Assembly and that operates
in a city having a population | ||||||
36 | exceeding
500,000 may not contract with a for-profit entity to
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1 | manage or operate the school during the period that commences | ||||||
2 | on the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd | ||||||
3 | General Assembly and
concludes at the end of the 2004-2005 | ||||||
4 | school year.
Except as provided in subsection (i) of this | ||||||
5 | Section, a school district may
charge a charter school | ||||||
6 | reasonable rent for the use of the district's
buildings, | ||||||
7 | grounds, and facilities. Any services for which a charter | ||||||
8 | school
contracts
with a school district shall be provided by | ||||||
9 | the district at cost. Any services
for which a charter school | ||||||
10 | contracts with a local school board or with the
governing body | ||||||
11 | of a State college or university or public community college
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12 | shall be provided by the public entity at cost.
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13 | (i) In no event shall a charter school that is established | ||||||
14 | by converting an
existing school or attendance center to | ||||||
15 | charter school status be required to
pay rent for space
that is | ||||||
16 | deemed available, as negotiated and provided in the charter | ||||||
17 | agreement,
in school district
facilities. However, all other | ||||||
18 | costs for the operation and maintenance of
school district | ||||||
19 | facilities that are used by the charter school shall be subject
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20 | to negotiation between
the charter school and the local school | ||||||
21 | board and shall be set forth in the
charter.
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22 | (j) A charter school may limit student enrollment by age or | ||||||
23 | grade level.
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24 | (Source: P.A. 93-3, eff. 4-16-03; 93-909, eff. 8-12-04.)
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25 | (105 ILCS 5/34-18.5) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.5)
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26 | Sec. 34-18.5. Criminal history records checks , sex | ||||||
27 | offender registration data checks, and orders of protection | ||||||
28 | records checks .
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29 | (a) Certified and noncertified applicants for
employment | ||||||
30 | with the school district are required as a condition of
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31 | employment to authorize a fingerprint-based criminal history | ||||||
32 | records check to determine if such applicants
have been | ||||||
33 | convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug offenses in
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34 | subsection (c) of this Section or have been
convicted, within 7 | ||||||
35 | years of the application for employment with the
school |
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1 | district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or | ||||||
2 | of any
offense committed or attempted in any other state or | ||||||
3 | against the laws of
the United States that, if committed or | ||||||
4 | attempted in this State, would
have been punishable as a felony | ||||||
5 | under the laws of this State. An applicant must also authorize | ||||||
6 | a check of sex offender registration data, as authorized by the | ||||||
7 | Sex Offender and Child Murderer Community Notification Law, to | ||||||
8 | determine if he or she has ever been required to register as a | ||||||
9 | sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act, and a | ||||||
10 | check of all valid and recorded orders of protection issued | ||||||
11 | under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 to determine | ||||||
12 | if an order of protection has ever been filed against an | ||||||
13 | applicant. Authorization
for each
the
check shall
be furnished | ||||||
14 | by the applicant to the school district, except that if the
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15 | applicant is a substitute teacher seeking employment in more | ||||||
16 | than one
school district, or a teacher seeking concurrent | ||||||
17 | part-time employment
positions with more than one school | ||||||
18 | district (as a reading specialist,
special education teacher or | ||||||
19 | otherwise), or an educational support
personnel employee | ||||||
20 | seeking employment positions with more than one
district, any | ||||||
21 | such district may require the applicant to furnish
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22 | authorization for each
the check to the regional superintendent | ||||||
23 | of the
educational service region in which are located the | ||||||
24 | school districts in
which the applicant is seeking employment | ||||||
25 | as a substitute or concurrent
part-time teacher or concurrent | ||||||
26 | educational support personnel employee.
Upon receipt of this | ||||||
27 | authorization, the school district or the appropriate
regional | ||||||
28 | superintendent, as the case may be, shall submit the | ||||||
29 | applicant's
name, sex, race, date of birth, social security | ||||||
30 | number, fingerprint images, and other identifiers, as | ||||||
31 | prescribed by the Department
of State Police, to the | ||||||
32 | Department. The regional
superintendent submitting the | ||||||
33 | requisite information to the Department of
State Police shall | ||||||
34 | promptly notify the school districts in which the
applicant is | ||||||
35 | seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time
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36 | teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee |
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1 | that each
the
check of the applicant has been requested. The | ||||||
2 | Department of State
Police and the Federal Bureau of | ||||||
3 | Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based | ||||||
4 | criminal history records check, records of convictions, until | ||||||
5 | expunged, to the president of the school board for the school | ||||||
6 | district that requested the criminal history records check, or | ||||||
7 | to the regional superintendent who requested the check. The | ||||||
8 | Department of State Police shall furnish, pursuant to the Sex | ||||||
9 | Offender and Child Murderer Community Notification Law, any | ||||||
10 | record of an applicant's registration or of an applicant being | ||||||
11 | required to register under Section 3 of the Sex Offender | ||||||
12 | Registration Act to the president of the school board for the | ||||||
13 | school district that requested the sex offender registration | ||||||
14 | data check, or to the regional superintendent who requested the | ||||||
15 | check. The Department of State Police shall furnish, pursuant | ||||||
16 | to a check of the Law Enforcement Automated Data System, | ||||||
17 | records of all valid and recorded orders of protection issued | ||||||
18 | under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 to the | ||||||
19 | president of the school board for the school district that | ||||||
20 | requested the orders of protection records check, or to the | ||||||
21 | regional superintendent who requested the check. The
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22 | Department shall charge
the school district
or the appropriate | ||||||
23 | regional superintendent a fee for
conducting each
such check, | ||||||
24 | which fee shall be deposited in the State
Police Services Fund | ||||||
25 | and shall not exceed the cost of the inquiry; and the
applicant | ||||||
26 | shall not be charged a fee for any
such check by the school
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27 | district or by the regional superintendent. Subject to | ||||||
28 | appropriations for these purposes, the State Superintendent of | ||||||
29 | Education shall reimburse the school district and regional | ||||||
30 | superintendent for fees paid to obtain criminal history records | ||||||
31 | checks , sex offender registration data checks, and orders of | ||||||
32 | protection records checks under this Section.
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33 | (b) Any
information concerning the record of convictions , | ||||||
34 | sex offender registration, or orders of protection obtained by | ||||||
35 | the president
of the board of education or the regional | ||||||
36 | superintendent shall be
confidential and may only be |
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1 | transmitted to the general superintendent of
the school | ||||||
2 | district or his designee, the appropriate regional
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3 | superintendent if a
the check was requested by the board of | ||||||
4 | education
for the school district, the presidents of the | ||||||
5 | appropriate board of
education or school boards if a
the check | ||||||
6 | was requested from the
Department of State Police by the | ||||||
7 | regional superintendent, the State
Superintendent of | ||||||
8 | Education, the State Teacher Certification Board or any
other | ||||||
9 | person necessary to the decision of hiring the applicant for
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10 | employment. A copy of the record of convictions , sex offender | ||||||
11 | registration, and orders of protection obtained from the
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12 | Department of State Police shall be provided to the applicant | ||||||
13 | for
employment. If a check of an applicant for employment as a
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14 | substitute or concurrent part-time teacher or concurrent | ||||||
15 | educational
support personnel employee in more than one school | ||||||
16 | district was requested
by the regional superintendent, and the | ||||||
17 | Department of State Police upon
a check ascertains that the | ||||||
18 | applicant has not been convicted of any
of the enumerated | ||||||
19 | criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) ,
or has not been
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20 | convicted,
within 7 years of the application for employment | ||||||
21 | with the
school district, of any other felony under the laws of | ||||||
22 | this State or of any
offense committed or attempted in any | ||||||
23 | other state or against the laws of
the United States that, if | ||||||
24 | committed or attempted in this State, would
have been | ||||||
25 | punishable as a felony under the laws of this State , has not | ||||||
26 | been required to register as a sex offender under the Sex | ||||||
27 | Offender Registration Act, and has not had an order of | ||||||
28 | protection filed against him or her and so
notifies the | ||||||
29 | regional superintendent, then the regional superintendent
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30 | shall issue to the applicant a certificate evidencing that as | ||||||
31 | of the date
specified by the Department of State Police the | ||||||
32 | applicant has not been
convicted of any of the enumerated | ||||||
33 | criminal or drug offenses in subsection
(c) ,
or has not been
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34 | convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment | ||||||
35 | with the
school district, of any other felony under the laws of | ||||||
36 | this State or of any
offense committed or attempted in any |
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1 | other state or against the laws of
the United States that, if | ||||||
2 | committed or attempted in this State, would
have been | ||||||
3 | punishable as a felony under the laws of this State , has not | ||||||
4 | been required to register as a sex offender under the Sex | ||||||
5 | Offender Registration Act, and has not had an order of | ||||||
6 | protection filed against him or her . The school
board of any | ||||||
7 | school district located
in
the educational
service region | ||||||
8 | served by the regional superintendent who issues such a
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9 | certificate to an applicant for employment as a substitute or | ||||||
10 | concurrent
part-time teacher or concurrent educational support | ||||||
11 | personnel employee in more
than one such district may rely on | ||||||
12 | the certificate issued by the regional
superintendent to that | ||||||
13 | applicant, or may initiate its own criminal history records , | ||||||
14 | sex offender registration data, or orders of protection records | ||||||
15 | check of
the applicant through the Department of State Police | ||||||
16 | as provided in
subsection (a). Any person who releases any | ||||||
17 | confidential information
concerning any criminal convictions , | ||||||
18 | sex offender registration, or orders of protection of an | ||||||
19 | applicant for employment shall be
guilty of a Class A | ||||||
20 | misdemeanor, unless the release of such information is
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21 | authorized by this Section.
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22 | (c) The board of education shall not knowingly employ a | ||||||
23 | person who has
been convicted for committing attempted first | ||||||
24 | degree murder or for
committing or attempting to commit first | ||||||
25 | degree murder or a Class X felony
or any one or more of the
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26 | following offenses: (i) those defined in Sections 11-6, 11-9, | ||||||
27 | 11-14,
11-15, 11-15.1, 11-16, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 11-19.1, | ||||||
28 | 11-19.2, 11-20,
11-20.1, 11-21, 12-13, 12-14,
12-14.1,
12-15 | ||||||
29 | and 12-16 of the Criminal Code of
1961; (ii) those defined in | ||||||
30 | the Cannabis Control Act,
except those defined in Sections | ||||||
31 | 4(a), 4(b) and 5(a) of that Act; (iii)
those defined in the | ||||||
32 | Illinois Controlled Substances Act;
and (iv) any
offense | ||||||
33 | committed or attempted in any other state or against the laws | ||||||
34 | of
the United States, which if committed or attempted in this | ||||||
35 | State, would
have been punishable as one or more of the | ||||||
36 | foregoing offenses.
Further, the board of education shall not |
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1 | knowingly employ a person who has
been found to be the | ||||||
2 | perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse of any minor under
18 | ||||||
3 | years of age pursuant to proceedings under Article II of the | ||||||
4 | Juvenile Court
Act of 1987.
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5 | (d) The board of education shall not knowingly employ a | ||||||
6 | person for whom
a criminal history records check , a sex | ||||||
7 | offender registration data check, and an orders of protection | ||||||
8 | records check has not been initiated.
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9 | (e) Upon receipt of the record of a conviction of or a | ||||||
10 | finding of child
abuse by a holder of any
certificate issued | ||||||
11 | pursuant to Article 21 or Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the
School | ||||||
12 | Code, the board of education or the State Superintendent of
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13 | Education shall initiate the certificate suspension and | ||||||
14 | revocation
proceedings authorized by law.
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15 | (f) After March 19, 1990, the provisions of this Section | ||||||
16 | shall apply to
all employees of persons or firms holding | ||||||
17 | contracts with any school district
including, but not limited | ||||||
18 | to, food service workers, school bus drivers and
other | ||||||
19 | transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact with | ||||||
20 | the
pupils of any school in such district. For purposes of | ||||||
21 | criminal history records checks , sex offender registration | ||||||
22 | data checks, and orders of protection records checks on | ||||||
23 | employees of persons or firms holding contracts with more
than | ||||||
24 | one school district and assigned to more than one school | ||||||
25 | district, the
regional superintendent of the educational | ||||||
26 | service region in which the
contracting school districts are | ||||||
27 | located may, at the request of any such
school district, be | ||||||
28 | responsible for receiving the authorization for
a check | ||||||
29 | prepared by each such employee and submitting the same to the
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30 | Department of State Police. Any information concerning the | ||||||
31 | record of
conviction , sex offender registration, or orders of | ||||||
32 | protection of any such employee obtained by the regional | ||||||
33 | superintendent
shall be promptly reported to the president of | ||||||
34 | the appropriate school board
or school boards.
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35 | (Source: P.A. 93-418, eff. 1-1-04; 93-909, eff. 8-12-04.)
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1 | Section 15. The Sex Offender and Child Murderer Community | ||||||
2 | Notification Law is amended by adding Section 123 as follows: | ||||||
3 | (730 ILCS 152/123 new)
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4 | Sec. 123. Sex offender registration data checks for school | ||||||
5 | board or regional superintendent. Upon the request of a school | ||||||
6 | board or regional superintendent of schools, the Department of | ||||||
7 | State Police shall conduct a check of the Statewide Sex | ||||||
8 | Offender Database pursuant to Section 10-21.9 or 34-18.5 of the | ||||||
9 | School Code. The results of this check shall include the | ||||||
10 | release by the Department of the name, address, date of birth, | ||||||
11 | and offense or adjudication of a sex offender required to | ||||||
12 | register under Section 3 of the Sex Offender Registration Act | ||||||
13 | to the president of the school board of the school district | ||||||
14 | that has requested the check or, if the check was requested by | ||||||
15 | the regional superintendent, to the regional superintendent.
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16 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
17 | becoming law.
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