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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 HB5003
Introduced 02/05/04, by Jay C. Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/1C-1 |
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105 ILCS 5/1D-1 |
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Amends the School Code. Makes technical changes in Sections concerning block grants.
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A BILL FOR
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HB5003 |
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections |
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| 1C-1 and 1D-1 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/1C-1)
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| Sec. 1C-1. Purpose ; applicability . The purpose of this |
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| Article is to permit greater
flexibility and efficiency in the |
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| distribution and use of certain State funds
available to
local |
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| education agencies for the improvement of the quality of |
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| educational
services pursuant to locally established |
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| priorities.
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| This Article does not apply to school districts having a |
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| population in excess
of 500,000 inhabitants.
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| (Source: P.A. 88-555, eff. 7-27-94; 89-15, eff. 5-30-95; |
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| 89-397, eff.
8-20-95; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/1D-1)
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| Sec. 1D-1. Block grant funding.
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| (a) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter, |
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| the State Board
of Education shall award to a school district |
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| having a population exceeding
500,000 inhabitants a general |
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| education block grant and an educational services
block grant, |
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| determined as provided in this Section, in lieu of distributing |
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| to
the district separate State funding for the programs |
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| described in subsections
(b) and (c) of this Section . The |
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| provisions of this Section, however, do not apply to any
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| federal funds that the district is entitled to receive. In |
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| accordance with
Section 2-3.32, all block grants are subject to |
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| an audit. Therefore, block
grant receipts and block grant |
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| expenditures shall be recorded to the
appropriate fund code for |
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| the designated block grant.
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| (b) The general education block grant shall include the |
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| following
programs: REI Initiative, Summer Bridges, Preschool |
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| At Risk, K-6
Comprehensive Arts, School Improvement Support, |
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| Urban Education, Scientific
Literacy, Substance Abuse |
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| Prevention, Second Language Planning, Staff
Development, |
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| Outcomes and Assessment, K-6 Reading Improvement, 7-12 |
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| Continued
Reading Improvement, Truants'
Optional Education, |
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| Hispanic Programs, Agriculture Education,
Parental Education, |
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| Prevention Initiative, Report Cards, and Criminal
Background |
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| Investigations. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, |
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| all
amounts paid under the general education block grant from |
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| State appropriations
to a school district in a city having a |
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| population exceeding 500,000
inhabitants shall be appropriated |
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| and expended by the board of that district
for any of the |
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| programs included in the block grant or any of the board's
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| lawful purposes.
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| (c) The educational services block grant shall include the |
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| following
programs: Bilingual, Regular and Vocational |
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| Transportation, State Lunch and
Free Breakfast Program, |
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| Special Education (Personnel,
Extraordinary, Transportation, |
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| Orphanage, Private Tuition), Summer School,
Educational |
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| Service Centers, and Administrator's Academy. This subsection |
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| (c)
does not relieve the district of its obligation to provide |
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| the services
required under a program that is included within |
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| the educational services block
grant. It is the intention of |
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| the General Assembly in enacting the provisions
of this |
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| subsection (c) to relieve the district of the administrative |
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| burdens
that impede efficiency and accompany single-program |
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| funding. The General
Assembly encourages the board to pursue |
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| mandate waivers pursuant to Section
2-3.25g.
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| (d) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter, |
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| the amount
of the district's block grants shall be determined |
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| as follows:
(i) with respect to each program that is included |
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| within each block grant, the
district shall receive an amount |
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| equal to the same percentage of the current
fiscal year |
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| appropriation made for that program as the percentage of the
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| appropriation received by the district from the 1995 fiscal |
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| year appropriation
made for that program, and
(ii) the total |
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| amount that is due the district under the block grant shall be
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| the aggregate of the amounts that the district is entitled to |
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| receive for the
fiscal year with respect to each program that |
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| is included within the block
grant that the State Board of |
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| Education shall award the district under this
Section for that |
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| fiscal year. In the case of the Summer Bridges program,
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| amount of the district's block grant shall be equal to 44% of |
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| the amount
of the current fiscal year appropriation made for |
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| that program.
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| (e) The district is not required to file any application or |
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| other claim in
order to receive the block grants to which it is |
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| entitled under this Section.
The State Board of Education shall |
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| make payments to the district of amounts due
under the |
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| district's block grants on a schedule determined by the State |
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| Board
of Education.
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| (f) A school district to which this Section applies shall |
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| report to the
State Board of Education on its use of the block |
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| grants in such form and detail
as the State Board of Education |
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| may specify.
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| (g) This paragraph provides for the treatment of block |
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| grants under Article
1C for purposes of calculating the amount |
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| of block grants for a district under
this Section. Those block |
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| grants under Article 1C are, for this
purpose, treated as |
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| included in the amount of appropriation for the various
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| programs set forth in paragraph (b) above. The appropriation in |
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| each current
fiscal year for each block grant under Article 1C |
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| shall be treated for these
purposes as appropriations for the |
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| individual program included in that block
grant. The proportion |
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| of each block grant so allocated to each such program
included |
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| in it shall be the proportion which the appropriation for that |
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| program
was of all appropriations for such purposes now in that |
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| block grant, in fiscal
1995.
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| Payments to the school district under this Section with |
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| respect to each
program for which payments to school districts |
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| generally, as of the date of
this
amendatory Act of the 92nd |
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| General Assembly, are on a reimbursement basis
shall continue |
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| to be made to the district on a reimbursement basis, pursuant
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| to the provisions of this Code governing those programs.
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| (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school |
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| district
receiving a block grant under this Section may |
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| classify all or a portion of
the funds that it receives in a |
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| particular fiscal year from any block grant
authorized under |
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| this Code or from general State aid pursuant to Section
18-8.05 |
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| of this Code (other than supplemental general State aid) as
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| funds received in connection with any funding program for which |
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| it is
entitled to receive funds from the State in that fiscal |
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| year (including,
without limitation, any funding program |
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| referred to in subsection (c) of
this Section), regardless of |
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| the source or timing of the receipt. The
district may not |
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| classify more funds as funds received in connection
with the |
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| funding program than the district is entitled to receive in |
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| that
fiscal year for that program. Any classification by a |
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| district must be made by
a resolution
of its board of |
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| education. The resolution must identify the amount of any
block |
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| grant or general State aid to be classified under this |
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| subsection (h)
and must specify the funding program to which |
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| the funds are to be
treated as received in connection |
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| therewith. This resolution is
controlling as to the |
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| classification of funds referenced therein. A certified
copy of |
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| the resolution must be sent to the State Superintendent of
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| Education.
The resolution shall still take effect even though a |
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| copy of the resolution
has not been sent to the State
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| Superintendent of Education in a timely manner.
No |
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| classification under this subsection (h) by a district shall
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| affect the total amount or timing of money the district is |
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| entitled to receive
under this Code.
No classification under |
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| this subsection (h) by a district
shall in any way relieve the |
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| district from or affect any
requirements that otherwise would |
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| apply with respect to the
block grant as provided in this |
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| Section, including any
accounting of funds by source, reporting |