Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB1799 Latest Draft

Bill / Engrossed Version Filed 04/09/2025

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1  AN ACT concerning education.
2  Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3  represented in the General Assembly:
4  Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
5  10-22.34c as follows:
6  (105 ILCS 5/10-22.34c)
7  Sec. 10-22.34c. Third party non-instructional services.
8  (a) A board of education may enter into a contract with a
9  third party for non-instructional services currently performed
10  by any employee or bargaining unit member or lay off those
11  educational support personnel employees upon 90 days written
12  notice to the affected employees, provided that:
13  (1) a contract must not be entered into and become
14  effective during the term of a collective bargaining
15  agreement, as that term is set forth in the agreement,
16  covering any employees who perform the non-instructional
17  services;
18  (2) a contract may only take effect upon the
19  expiration of an existing collective bargaining agreement;
20  (3) any third party that submits a bid to perform the
21  non-instructional services shall provide the following:
22  (A) evidence of liability insurance in scope and
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1  by the school board pursuant to Section 10-22.3 of
2  this Code;
3  (B) a benefits package for the third party's
4  employees who will perform the non-instructional
5  services comparable to the benefits package provided
6  to school board employees who perform those services;
7  (C) a list of the number of employees who will
8  provide the non-instructional services, the job
9  classifications of those employees, and the wages the
10  third party will pay those employees;
11  (D) a minimum 3-year cost projection, using
12  generally accepted accounting principles and which the
13  third party is prohibited from increasing if the bid
14  is accepted by the school board, for each and every
15  expenditure category and account for performing the
16  non-instructional services;
17  (E) composite information about the criminal and
18  disciplinary records, including alcohol or other
19  substance abuse, Department of Children and Family
20  Services complaints and investigations, traffic
21  violations, and license revocations or any other
22  licensure problems, of any employees who may perform
23  the non-instructional services, provided that the
24  individual names and other identifying information of
25  employees need not be provided with the submission of
26  the bid, but must be made available upon request of the

 

 

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1  school board; and
2  (F) an affidavit, notarized by the president or
3  chief executive officer of the third party, that each
4  of its employees has completed a criminal background
5  check as required by Section 10-21.9 of this Code
6  within 3 months prior to submission of the bid,
7  provided that the results of such background checks
8  need not be provided with the submission of the bid,
9  but must be made available upon request of the school
10  board;
11  (4) a contract must not be entered into unless the
12  school board provides a cost comparison, using generally
13  accepted accounting principles, of each and every
14  expenditure category and account that the school board
15  projects it would incur over the term of the contract if it
16  continued to perform the non-instructional services using
17  its own employees with each and every expenditure category
18  and account that is projected a third party would incur if
19  a third party performed the non-instructional services;
20  (5) review and consideration of all bids by third
21  parties to perform the non-instructional services shall
22  take place in open session of a regularly scheduled school
23  board meeting, unless the exclusive bargaining
24  representative of the employees who perform the
25  non-instructional services, if any such exclusive
26  bargaining representative exists, agrees in writing that

 

 

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1  such review and consideration can take place in open
2  session at a specially scheduled school board meeting;
3  (6) a minimum of one public hearing, conducted by the
4  school board prior to a regularly scheduled school board
5  meeting, to discuss the school board's proposal to
6  contract with a third party to perform the
7  non-instructional services must be held before the school
8  board may enter into such a contract; the school board
9  must provide notice to the public of the date, time, and
10  location of the first public hearing on or before the
11  initial date that bids to provide the non-instructional
12  services are solicited or a minimum of 30 days prior to
13  entering into such a contract, whichever provides a
14  greater period of notice;
15  (7) a contract shall contain provisions requiring the
16  contractor to offer available employee positions pursuant
17  to the contract to qualified school district employees
18  whose employment is terminated because of the contract;
19  and
20  (8) a contract shall contain provisions requiring the
21  contractor to comply with a policy of nondiscrimination
22  and equal employment opportunity for all persons and to
23  take affirmative steps to provide equal opportunity for
24  all persons.
25  (b) As used in this subsection (b), "emergency situation"
26  means a sudden and unforeseen event or change in circumstances

 

 

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1  that calls for immediate action.
2  Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this Section, a board of
3  education may enter into a contract, of no longer than 3 months
4  in duration, with a third party for non-instructional services
5  currently performed by an employee or bargaining unit member
6  for the purpose of augmenting the current workforce in an
7  emergency situation that threatens the safety or health of the
8  school district's students or staff, provided that (i) the
9  school board meets all of its obligations under the Illinois
10  Educational Labor Relations Act and (ii) the board of
11  education posts all vacant positions used for augmenting the
12  current workforce on the school district's website, in a
13  manner that is easily accessible to the affected bargaining
14  unit, if applicable, and the general public, as well as on all
15  other platforms on which the board of education advertises its
16  vacancies, including, but not limited to, online job portals,
17  databases, and social media sites. The board of education must
18  post all vacant positions in the manner described in this
19  subsection (b) for the entirety of an emergency contract and
20  the entirety of any reviewed emergency contract until the
21  emergency contract expires.
22  A board of education that attempts to renew or enter into
23  any new contract of any type whatsoever for any reason
24  whatsoever with a third party for non-instructional services
25  to augment the current workforce for a group of employees in an
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1  follow all of the steps set forth in paragraph (6) of
2  subsection (a) or obtain mutual agreement with the affected
3  bargaining unit, if any. The mutual agreement must be separate
4  from the collective bargaining agreement that the affected
5  bargaining unit has with the board of education.
6  A board of education that attempts to renew or enter into
7  any new contract of any type whatsoever for any reason
8  whatsoever with a third party for non-instructional services
9  to augment the current workforce for a group of employees in an
10  emergency situation under this subsection (b) 3 times or more
11  is required to obtain mutual agreement with the affected
12  bargaining unit, if any. The mutual agreement must be separate
13  from the collective bargaining agreement that the affected
14  bargaining unit has with the board of education.
15  (c) The changes to this Section made by this amendatory
16  Act of the 95th General Assembly are not applicable to
17  non-instructional services of a school district that on the
18  effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General
19  Assembly are performed for the school district by a third
20  party.
21  (Source: P.A. 95-241, eff. 8-17-07; 96-328, eff. 8-11-09.)
22  Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
23  2026.

 

 

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