Bill Text: IL HB4652 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Reinserts the contents of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that "salary" includes stipends paid to an eligible cooperating teacher under the Board of Higher Education Act. Authorizes a person to establish optional credit for periods of service as a student teacher under a specified provision of the Board of Higher Education Act. In provisions requiring an additional employer contribution for certain salary increases greater than 6%, provides that the System shall exclude any stipends paid to an eligible cooperating teacher under the Board of Higher Education Act. Provides that any benefit increase that results from the amendatory Act is excluded from the definition of "new benefit increase". Makes changes concerning how funds are to be distributed under the student teaching stipend program. Provides that the Board of Higher Education shall disburse funds to the State Board of Education, who shall disburse funds to each school district or early childhood education provider employing an eligible cooperating teacher (instead of having the Board of Higher Education disburse funds to educator preparation programs employing an eligible cooperating teacher). Makes related changes. Makes changes concerning when the report shall be completed. Provides that the Board of Higher Education shall provide guidance and technical assistance to educator preparation programs on the administration of the stipend program. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-1)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-21 - Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Natalie Toro [HB4652 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB4652-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Reinserts the contents of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that "salary" includes stipends paid to an eligible cooperating teacher under the Board of Higher Education Act. Authorizes a person to establish optional credit for periods of service as a student teacher under a specified provision of the Board of Higher Education Act. In provisions requiring an additional employer contribution for certain salary increases greater than 6%, provides that the System shall exclude any stipends paid to an eligible cooperating teacher under the Board of Higher Education Act. Provides that any benefit increase that results from the amendatory Act is excluded from the definition of "new benefit increase". Makes changes concerning how funds are to be distributed under the student teaching stipend program. Provides that the Board of Higher Education shall disburse funds to the State Board of Education, who shall disburse funds to each school district or early childhood education provider employing an eligible cooperating teacher (instead of having the Board of Higher Education disburse funds to educator preparation programs employing an eligible cooperating teacher). Makes related changes. Makes changes concerning when the report shall be completed. Provides that the Board of Higher Education shall provide guidance and technical assistance to educator preparation programs on the administration of the stipend program. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-1)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-21 - Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Natalie Toro [HB4652 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB4652-Introduced.html
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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, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Board of Higher Education Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | adding Section 9.44 as follows:
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6 | (110 ILCS 205/9.44 new) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 9.44. Student teaching stipend program. | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | (a) As used in this Section: | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | "Educator preparation program" means an approved educator | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | preparation program offered by a recognized school or | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | institution under Article 21B of the School Code. | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | "Eligible student" means a student who is enrolled in an | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | educator preparation program, who is maintaining satisfactory | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | academic progress, who is in a student teaching placement, and | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | who is not contracted as the teacher of record for the student | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | teaching placement. | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | "Student teaching" means a supervised clinical experience | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | that prepares a candidate to take full responsibility in an | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | instructional setting. | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | (b) Subject to appropriation, the Board shall create a | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | student teaching stipend program to alleviate the financial | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | burden of student teaching and to encourage students to pursue | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | teaching careers to alleviate this State's teacher shortage. |
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1 | (c) To participate in the stipend program, an eligible | ||||||
2 | student must be placed as a student teacher no later than June | ||||||
3 | 1, 2025 or no later than June 1 each year thereafter. An | ||||||
4 | educator preparation program shall notify the Board of all | ||||||
5 | eligible students who qualify for the stipend program by July | ||||||
6 | 1, 2025 and no later than July 1 each year thereafter, and all | ||||||
7 | eligible students shall be participants in the stipend | ||||||
8 | program. | ||||||
9 | (d) Under the stipend program and subject to available | ||||||
10 | appropriations, no later than August 1, 2025 and no later than | ||||||
11 | August 1 each year thereafter, the Board shall disburse to | ||||||
12 | each educator preparation program funds to distribute to each | ||||||
13 | eligible student a stipend of up to $10,000 per semester for up | ||||||
14 | to 2 consecutive semesters, plus additional funds to pay the | ||||||
15 | direct costs of operating the stipend program. The educator | ||||||
16 | preparation program shall distribute stipend funds using the | ||||||
17 | standard methods for allocating State-based financial aid or | ||||||
18 | as wages for employment to each eligible student in monthly | ||||||
19 | installments. | ||||||
20 | (e) If there is a surplus appropriated in a fiscal year for | ||||||
21 | the stipend program, then the Board shall increase the amount | ||||||
22 | distributed to each educator preparation program by the same | ||||||
23 | percentage that the surplus bears to the amount required to | ||||||
24 | fully fund the total number of eligible students who qualify | ||||||
25 | for the stipend program that fiscal year. An educator | ||||||
26 | preparation program shall increase the stipend amounts |
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