Capitol Watch 102nd General Assembly
Below you will find links to detailed information about the status of current education-related bills in the Legislature. Click on the bill number to access the Illinois General Assembly website containing full text and all actions associated with the bill. Those bills identified with an asterisk* are IEA initiatives. Capitol Watch 101st General Assembly Archive is available here.
| Bill # (current status of bill can be found by clicking on the bill #) | Description | Position | Topic | Fact Sheet | Bill Signed into Law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family Leave Eligibility | Support | Employee rights/benefits | Fact Sheet | Public Act 102 0335 | |
| SURS Re-calculation - remedy inconsistencies in regard to the calculation of serviceable credit for adjunct professors | Support | Pensions/Higher Ed | |||
| Resolution regarding the treatment of adjunct professors | Support | Higher Ed | |||
| Resolution seeking to find solutions to salary parity, quality professional development and access to health benefits for ESP members | Support | ESP | Adopted 099 000 000 | ||
| COVID - establish metrics for safely conducting in-person instruction, follow CDC guidelines as it pertains to schools and institutions of higher education, provide rapid testing | Support | COVID | Fact Sheet | ||
| Appropriates funds to a retired IEA member who won a judgement in court when he was discriminated against while applying for a promotion | Support | Employee rights/benefits | |||
| Resolution seeking to find solutions to salary parity, quality professional development and access to health benefits for ESP members | Support | ESP | |||
| Expands current law to provide a statewide induction and mentoring program that is sustainable and funded, focusing on best practices and high standards with high quality providers | Support | Recruitment/Retention | |||
| Requires schools to place contact information for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and for the Crisis Text Line on the back of student identification cards. The hope is to alleviate the stigma for students wanting to reach out for help | Support | Student Support | Public Act 102 0134 | ||
| Adds forensic speech (speech and debate) to the music, art, foreign language, or vocational education elective that a pupil may choose to satisfy the one-year prerequisite that each pupil entering the 9th grade is required to successfully complete to receive a high school diploma | Support | Student Support | Public Act 102 0551 | ||
| Gives active TRS participants the option to purchase up to 2 years of private/parochial school service credit, with stipulations | Support | Pensions | Fact Sheet | ||
| Gives active TRS participants the option to purchase up to 2 years of private/parochial school service credit, with stipulations – With House Floor Amendment 2 excludes salary increases resulting from teaching summer school beginning on or after May 1, 2021 and before September 15, 2022 from the 6% salary limitation currently in law | Support | Pensions | Fact Sheet | Public Act 102 0525 | |
| Ensures that those who are eligible to run as an executive trustee candidate (Employer) on the IMRF Board of Trustees can only run for the executive trustee position. Currently, those eligible for the executive trustee position can run for either the executive trustee positions (4) or the employee trustee positions (3). Under current law, employees are prohibited from running for the executive trustee positions. | Support | Pensions | Public Act 102 0479 | ||
| Lowers the number of governor appointed TRS Trustees from 7 to 5. This reduction in non-member appointments gives active and annuitant contributors to the system a majority on the TRS Board of Trustees. | Support | Pensions | |||
| Allows for maternity sick time to be taken in non-consecutive days over a 12 month time period | Support | Employee rights/benefits | Public Act 102 0275 | ||
| Amends the Conversion and Formation of School Districts Article of the School Code. Creates the School District Efficiency Commission. | Opposed | Consolidation | Fact Sheet | ||
| Expands the current induction and mentoring program with a focus on best practices and high-quality providers | Support | Mentoring | Public Act 102 0521 | ||
| COVID-19 Administrative Days and Paycheck Protection | Support | COVID | Fact Sheet | ||
| Contributions made to the Invest in Kids Act tax credit, voucher program on or after June 1, 2023 may be used only to provide scholarships to eligible students who attend a technical academy | Support | Vouchers | |||
| Provides that no credits may be awarded under the Invest in Kids Act tax credit, voucher program for any taxable year that begins in a State fiscal year for which the minimum statutory funding level is not met | Support | Vouchers | |||
| Amends the Invest in Kids Act tax credit, voucher program - provides that the Act applies for taxable years ending before January 1, 2023 | Support | Vouchers | |||
| Defines the requirements for reasonable assurance for academic personnel | Support | Higher Ed | |||
| SURS re-calculation | Support | Higher Ed | |||
| Protects seniority and recall rights for Education Cooperative employees during consolidation and dissolution | Support | Employee rights/benefits | |||
| Omnibus educator recruitment and retention bill | Support | Education | |||
| Provides that the governor shall appoint 5 (instead of 7) persons to the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois who are not members of the System | Support | Pensions | |||
| Provides five mental health days for full time education employees | Support | Employee rights/benefits | Fact Sheet | ||
| Provides five mental health days for full time education employees | Support | Employee rights/benefits | |||
| COVID-19 Administrative Days and Paycheck Protection | Support | COVID | Public Act 102 0697 | ||
| Sets a minimum ESP hourly rate at $20 for the 2022-23 school year, $21 for the 2023-24 school year and $22 for the 2024-25 | Support | ESP | |||
| Discrimination restitution for IEA member | Support | Employee rights/benefits | |||
| Three year teacher tenure | Support | Employee rights/benefits | |||
| Notice for dismissal for non-tenured teacher | Support | Employee rights/benefits | |||
| Tier II fix for IMRF, TRS and SURS | Support | Pensions | |||
| Higher Ed - sets a minimum ESP hourly rate at $20 for the 2022-23 school year, $21 for the 2023-24 school year and $22 for the 2024-25 | Support | Higher Ed | |||
| Fixes an inequity in the Unemployment Insurance system which prevents non-instructional academic personnel from receiving unemployment insurance. The legislation would make permanent the ability of non-instructional academic personnel to receive unemployment insurance, which was temporarily allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic | Support | Employee rights/benefits | |||
| Fixes an inequity in the Unemployment Insurance system which prevents non-instructional academic personnel from receiving unemployment insurance. The legislation would make permanent the ability of non-instructional academic personnel to receive unemployment insurance, which was temporarily allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic | Support | Employee rights/benefits | |||
| Fixes an inequity in the Unemployment Insurance system which prevents non-instructional academic personnel from receiving unemployment insurance. The legislation would make permanent the ability of non-instructional academic personnel to receive unemployment insurance, which was temporarily allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic | Support | Employee rights/benefits | |||
| Provides that a paraprofessional educator endorsement on an Educator License with Stipulations may be issued to an applicant who is at least 18 years of age | Support | ESP | |||
| Allows a person who is at least 18 years of age (instead of 19 years of age) to be licensed as a paraprofessional educator | Support | ESP | |||
| Provides that a school board shall pay a minimum wage of at least $20 per hour by 2025 for all public school employees, including, but not limited to, custodians, support staff, and substitute teachers | Support | ESP | |||
| Three year teacher tenure | Support | Employee rights/benefits | |||
| Higher Ed minimum salary | Support | Higher Ed | |||
| Driver Education Standards | Support | Driver Ed | |||
| Threat Assessment Protocol Accountability | Support | Threat Assessment |