Bill Text: IL SB2017 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Employment of Teachers Article of the School Code. Provides that educational support personnel employees shall not be required to work on a legal school holiday. Provides that no deduction shall be made from the time or compensation of a school employee, including an educational support personnel employee, on account of any legal or special holiday in which that employee would have otherwise been scheduled to work but for the legal or special holiday (instead of providing that no deduction shall be made from the time or compensation of a school employee on account of any legal or special holiday).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0395 [SB2017 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB2017-Engrossed.html

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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 School Code is amended by changing Section
24-2 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/24-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-2)
Sec. 24-2. Holidays.
(a) Teachers and educational support personnel employees
shall not be required to teach or otherwise work on Saturdays,
nor, except as provided in subsection (b) of this Section,
shall teachers, educational support personnel employees, or
other school employees, other than noncertificated school
employees whose presence is necessary because of an emergency
or for the continued operation and maintenance of school
facilities or property, be required to work on legal school
holidays, which are January 1, New Year's Day; the third
Monday in January, the Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.; February 12, the Birthday of President Abraham Lincoln;
the first Monday in March (to be known as Casimir Pulaski's
birthday); Good Friday; the day designated as Memorial Day by
federal law; June 19, Juneteenth National Freedom Day; July 4,
Independence Day; the first Monday in September, Labor Day;
the second Monday in October, Columbus Day; November 11,

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Veterans' Day; the Thursday in November commonly called
Thanksgiving Day; and December 25, Christmas Day. School
boards may grant special holidays whenever in their judgment
such action is advisable. No deduction shall be made from the
time or compensation of a school employee, including an
educational support personnel employee, on account of any
legal or special holiday in which that employee would have
otherwise been scheduled to work but for the legal or special
holiday.
(b) A school board or other entity eligible to apply for
waivers and modifications under Section 2-3.25g of this Code
is authorized to hold school or schedule teachers' institutes,
parent-teacher conferences, or staff development on the third
Monday in January (the Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.); February 12 (the Birthday of President Abraham Lincoln);
the first Monday in March (known as Casimir Pulaski's
birthday); the second Monday in October (Columbus Day); and
November 11 (Veterans' Day), provided that:
(1) the person or persons honored by the holiday are
recognized through instructional activities conducted on
that day or, if the day is not used for student attendance,
on the first school day preceding or following that day;
and
(2) the entity that chooses to exercise this authority
first holds a public hearing about the proposal. The
entity shall provide notice preceding the public hearing

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to both educators and parents. The notice shall set forth
the time, date, and place of the hearing, describe the
proposal, and indicate that the entity will take testimony
from educators and parents about the proposal.
(c) Commemorative holidays, which recognize specified
patriotic, civic, cultural or historical persons, activities,
or events, are regular school days. Commemorative holidays
are: January 17 (the birthday of Muhammad Ali), January 28 (to
be known as Christa McAuliffe Day and observed as a
commemoration of space exploration), February 15 (the birthday
of Susan B. Anthony), March 29 (Viet Nam War Veterans' Day),
September 11 (September 11th Day of Remembrance), the school
day immediately preceding Veterans' Day (Korean War Veterans'
Day), October 1 (Recycling Day), October 7 (Iraq and
Afghanistan Veterans Remembrance Day), December 7 (Pearl
Harbor Veterans' Day), and any day so appointed by the
President or Governor. School boards may establish
commemorative holidays whenever in their judgment such action
is advisable. School boards shall include instruction relative
to commemorated persons, activities, or events on the
commemorative holiday or at any other time during the school
year and at any point in the curriculum when such instruction
may be deemed appropriate. The State Board of Education shall
prepare and make available to school boards instructional
materials relative to commemorated persons, activities, or
events which may be used by school boards in conjunction with

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any instruction provided pursuant to this paragraph.
(d) City of Chicago School District 299 shall observe
March 4 of each year as a commemorative holiday. This holiday
shall be known as Mayors' Day which shall be a day to
commemorate and be reminded of the past Chief Executive
Officers of the City of Chicago, and in particular the late
Mayor Richard J. Daley and the late Mayor Harold Washington.
If March 4 falls on a Saturday or Sunday, Mayors' Day shall be
observed on the following Monday.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of State law to
the contrary, November 3, 2020 shall be a State holiday known
as 2020 General Election Day and shall be observed throughout
the State pursuant to this amendatory Act of the 101st General
Assembly. All government offices, with the exception of
election authorities, shall be closed unless authorized to be
used as a location for election day services or as a polling
place.
Notwithstanding any other provision of State law to the
contrary, November 8, 2022 shall be a State holiday known as
2022 General Election Day and shall be observed throughout the
State under Public Act 102-15.
(Source: P.A. 101-642, eff. 6-16-20; 102-14, eff. 1-1-22;
102-15, eff. 6-17-21; 102-334, eff. 8-9-21; 102-411, eff.
1-1-22; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)