The bill would amend the Revised School Code to permit a school district, local act school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy to employ a person who did not hold a teaching certificate to provide speech and language services, if the person met the requirements for speech-language certification by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, notwithstanding any other provision of the Code or a rule to the contrary. A person who did not hold a teaching certificate, however, could not be assigned to serve as a classroom teacher.