Bill Text: IL HB0685 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Provides that the list of subjects of collective bargaining between the Chicago School District and the exclusive bargaining representative of its employees that is now permissive is instead mandatory. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0685 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB0685-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB0685 Introduced 2/6/2009, by Rep. William D. Burns SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
115 ILCS 5/4.5
30 ILCS 805/8.33 new
Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Provides that the list of subjects of collective bargaining between the Chicago School District and the exclusive bargaining representative of its employees that is now permissive is instead mandatory. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
A BILL FOR
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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 changing Section 4.5 as follows:
(115 ILCS 5/4.5)
Sec. 4.5. Subjects of collective bargaining.
(a) Notwithstanding the existence of any other provision in
this Act or other law, collective bargaining between an
educational employer whose territorial boundaries are
coterminous with those of a city having a population in excess
of 500,000 and an exclusive representative of its employees
must may include all any of the following subjects:
(1) (Blank).
(2) Decisions to contract with a third party for one or
more services otherwise performed by employees in a
bargaining unit and the procedures for obtaining such
contract or the identity of the third party.
(3) Decisions to layoff or reduce in force employees.
(4) Decisions to determine class size, class staffing
and assignment, class schedules, academic calendar, hours
and places of instruction, or pupil assessment policies.
(5) Decisions concerning use and staffing of

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experimental or pilot programs and decisions concerning
use of technology to deliver educational programs and
services and staffing to provide the technology.
(b) The subject or matters described in subsection (a) are
mandatory permissive subjects of bargaining between an
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 such subject or matter
on the bargaining unit upon request by the exclusive
representative. During this bargaining, the educational
employer shall not be precluded from implementing its decision.
If, after a reasonable period of bargaining, a dispute or
impasse exists between the educational employer and the
exclusive representative, the dispute or impasse shall be
resolved exclusively as set forth in subsection (b) of Section
12 of this Act in lieu of a strike under Section 13 of this Act.
(c) A provision in a collective bargaining agreement that
was rendered null and void because it involved a prohibited
subject of collective bargaining under this subsection (c) as
this subsection (c) existed before the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly remains null and
void and shall not otherwise be reinstated in any successor
agreement unless the educational employer and exclusive
representative otherwise agree to include an agreement reached

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on a subject or matter described in subsection (a) of this
Section as subsection (a) existed before this amendatory Act of
the 93rd General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 93-3, eff. 4-16-03.)
Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
Section 8.33 as follows:
(30 ILCS 805/8.33 new)
Sec. 8.33. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
the 96th General Assembly.