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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family Leave Eligibility | Support | Employee rights/benefits | Fact Sheet | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Amends the Conversion and Formation of School Districts Article of the School Code. Creates the School District Efficiency Commission. | Opposed | Consolidation | Fact Sheet |