Advocacy

This week we achieved a long awaited victory with the Governor's signing of SB 508.  Immediate Past President, Mark Altmayer, has been working on this legislation for many years.  This specifically protects the tax extension in PTELL districts from adverse impact of certificates of error, PTAB adjustments, etc.  To read the full bill click this link:  https://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=10200SB0508ham005&GA=102&SessionId=110&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=133088&DocNum=508&GAID=16&SpecSess=&Session=

This week Governor JB Pritzker also took the following bill action: 

Bill Number: HB 1966
Description: Allows a TRS member to purchase up to 2 years of service credit for time served as a teacher or administrator at a private school recognized by ISBE.
Action: Veto
Note: SB1646, which has broader provisions, will be signed. HB1966 conflicts with SB1646.

Bill Number: HB 2408
Description: Requires HVAC fire and smoke dampers inspections to be conducted by certified International Certification Board inspectors.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022

Bill Number: HB 2569
Description: Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code to allow for teachers to return to work in a school without impacting their retirement.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 2584
Description: Adds that a school bus may be equipped with a special arm extension and allows IDOT to create a pilot program to test the safety equipment.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022

Bill Number: HB 3097
Description: Expands the definition of driver education course to include instruction on law enforcement procedures during traffic stops, including appropriate interactions with law enforcement officers.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022

Bill Number: HB 3114
Description: Creates the State Education Equity Committee to ensure equity in education for all children from birth through grade 12.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3178
Description: Clarifies the role of the Illinois Committee for Agricultural Education (ICAE) is to advise the state board on the administration of the Agricultural Education line item and agency rulemaking that affects agricultural education educators.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022  

Bill Number: HB 3202
Description: Includes e-cigarettes and other vapor devices as one of the educational areas in the Comprehensive Health Education Program.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3272
Description: Requires local school districts to adopt written policies related to absences and missed homework or classwork assignments as a result of or related to a student's pregnancy.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3281
Description: Allows high schools to include in its curriculum a unit of instruction about the process of naturalization by which a foreign citizen or foreign national becomes a U.S. citizen.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3474
Description: Modifies the membership criteria for the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) board.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3906
Description: Establishes a procedure by which the State Superintendent would be authorized to determine that a student's parent or guardian is officially unknown.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3929
Description: Allows the issuance of health care worker decals by the Department of Public Health with a portion of the revenue deposited into an Illinois Health Care Workers Benefit Fund.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3950
Description: Requires high school and community college partnership agreements related to dual credit courses to ensure that individual students with disabilities have access to dual credit courses.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: SB 508
Description: Makes changes to the property tax code regarding scavenger sales in Cook County and allows taxing districts to receive refunds when the previous tax year amount was an error.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: SB 814
Description: Directs ISBE to create a competitive grant program to support new principal mentoring programs and new teacher induction and mentoring programs, and adjusts program requirements.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: SB 1646
Description: Allows a downstate TRS member to purchase up to 2 years of service credit for time served as a teacher or administrator at a private school recognized by ISBE.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: SB 1839
Description: Provides that codes of structure for modular dwellings cannot be more stringent than the International Residential Code for single- and two-family dwellings or the International Building Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022 

Bill Number: SB 1989
Description: Allows a retired teacher that is drawing a pension to accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is not within the school year during which service was terminated and does not exceed 120 paid days or 600 paid hours in each school year.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: SB 2245
Description: Restricts the use of pesticides on or within 500 feet of a school property during normal hours from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022

Bill Number: SB 2354
Description: Allows a forensic speech course to be used to satisfy the one-year elective course requirement needed to receive a high school diploma.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022

Bill Number: SB 2357
Description: Requires school superintendents to provide additional information when notifying the State Board of Education of the dismissal or resignation of a Professional Educator License holder that has committed an act of abuse or neglect of a child.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
 

Bill Number: SB 2434
Description: Allows elementary and high school districts that have overlapping boundaries to enter into an IGA under which they can share student records for some students to the same extent as schools within a unit district.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately

Bill Number: SB 2530
Description: Requires wireless service providers to provide call location information concerning the telecommunications device of a user to a law enforcement agency when it involves an emergency.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022

This week we achieved a long awaited victory with the Governor's signing of SB 508.  Immediate Past President, Mark Altmayer, has been working on this legislation for many years.  This specifically protects the tax extension in PTELL districts from adverse impact of certificates of error, PTAB adjustments, etc.  To read the full bill click this link:  https://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=10200SB0508ham005&GA=102&SessionId=110&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=133088&DocNum=508&GAID=16&SpecSess=&Session=

This week Governor JB Pritzker also took the following bill action: 

Bill Number: HB 1966
Description: Allows a TRS member to purchase up to 2 years of service credit for time served as a teacher or administrator at a private school recognized by ISBE.
Action: Veto
Note: SB1646, which has broader provisions, will be signed. HB1966 conflicts with SB1646.

Bill Number: HB 2408
Description: Requires HVAC fire and smoke dampers inspections to be conducted by certified International Certification Board inspectors.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022

Bill Number: HB 2569
Description: Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code to allow for teachers to return to work in a school without impacting their retirement.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 2584
Description: Adds that a school bus may be equipped with a special arm extension and allows IDOT to create a pilot program to test the safety equipment.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022

Bill Number: HB 3097
Description: Expands the definition of driver education course to include instruction on law enforcement procedures during traffic stops, including appropriate interactions with law enforcement officers.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022

Bill Number: HB 3114
Description: Creates the State Education Equity Committee to ensure equity in education for all children from birth through grade 12.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3178
Description: Clarifies the role of the Illinois Committee for Agricultural Education (ICAE) is to advise the state board on the administration of the Agricultural Education line item and agency rulemaking that affects agricultural education educators.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022  

Bill Number: HB 3202
Description: Includes e-cigarettes and other vapor devices as one of the educational areas in the Comprehensive Health Education Program.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3272
Description: Requires local school districts to adopt written policies related to absences and missed homework or classwork assignments as a result of or related to a student's pregnancy.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3281
Description: Allows high schools to include in its curriculum a unit of instruction about the process of naturalization by which a foreign citizen or foreign national becomes a U.S. citizen.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3474
Description: Modifies the membership criteria for the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) board.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3906
Description: Establishes a procedure by which the State Superintendent would be authorized to determine that a student's parent or guardian is officially unknown.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3929
Description: Allows the issuance of health care worker decals by the Department of Public Health with a portion of the revenue deposited into an Illinois Health Care Workers Benefit Fund.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: HB 3950
Description: Requires high school and community college partnership agreements related to dual credit courses to ensure that individual students with disabilities have access to dual credit courses.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: SB 508
Description: Makes changes to the property tax code regarding scavenger sales in Cook County and allows taxing districts to receive refunds when the previous tax year amount was an error.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: SB 814
Description: Directs ISBE to create a competitive grant program to support new principal mentoring programs and new teacher induction and mentoring programs, and adjusts program requirements.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: SB 1646
Description: Allows a downstate TRS member to purchase up to 2 years of service credit for time served as a teacher or administrator at a private school recognized by ISBE.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: SB 1839
Description: Provides that codes of structure for modular dwellings cannot be more stringent than the International Residential Code for single- and two-family dwellings or the International Building Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022 

Bill Number: SB 1989
Description: Allows a retired teacher that is drawing a pension to accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is not within the school year during which service was terminated and does not exceed 120 paid days or 600 paid hours in each school year.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately  

Bill Number: SB 2245
Description: Restricts the use of pesticides on or within 500 feet of a school property during normal hours from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022

Bill Number: SB 2354
Description: Allows a forensic speech course to be used to satisfy the one-year elective course requirement needed to receive a high school diploma.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022

Bill Number: SB 2357
Description: Requires school superintendents to provide additional information when notifying the State Board of Education of the dismissal or resignation of a Professional Educator License holder that has committed an act of abuse or neglect of a child.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
 

Bill Number: SB 2434
Description: Allows elementary and high school districts that have overlapping boundaries to enter into an IGA under which they can share student records for some students to the same extent as schools within a unit district.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately

Bill Number: SB 2530
Description: Requires wireless service providers to provide call location information concerning the telecommunications device of a user to a law enforcement agency when it involves an emergency.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022