Public Act 094-0440
 
SB1734 Enrolled LRB094 11334 NHT 42174 b

    AN ACT concerning education.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
27-24.4 and 27-24.5 as follows:
 
    (105 ILCS 5/27-24.4)  (from Ch. 122, par. 27-24.4)
    Sec. 27-24.4. Reimbursement amount. Each school district
shall be entitled to reimbursement, for each pupil, excluding
each resident of the district over age 55, who finishes either
the classroom instruction part or the practice driving part of
a driver education course that meets the minimum requirements
of this Act. Such reimbursement is payable from the Drivers
Education Fund in the State treasury.
    Each year all funds appropriated from the Driver Education
Fund to the State Board of Education, with the exception of
those funds necessary for administrative purposes of the State
Board of Education, shall be distributed in the manner provided
in this paragraph to school districts by the State Board of
Education for reimbursement of claims from the previous school
year. As soon as may be after each quarter of the year, if
moneys are available in the Driver Education Fund in the State
treasury for payments under this Section, the State Comptroller
shall draw his or her warrants upon the State Treasurer as
directed by the State Board of Education. The warrant for each
quarter shall be in an amount equal to one-fourth of the total
amount to be distributed to school districts for the year.
Payments shall be made to school districts as soon as may be
after receipt of the warrants.
    The base reimbursement amount shall be calculated by the
State Board by dividing the total amount appropriated for
distribution by the total of: (a) the number of students,
excluding residents of the district over age 55, who have
completed the classroom instruction part for whom valid claims
have been made times 0.2; plus (b) the number of students,
excluding residents of the district over age 55, who have
completed the practice driving instruction part for whom valid
claims have been made times 0.8.
    The amount of reimbursement to be distributed on each claim
shall be 0.2 times the base reimbursement amount for each
validly claimed student, excluding residents of the district
over age 55, who has completed the classroom instruction part,
plus 0.8 times the base reimbursement amount for each validly
claimed student, excluding residents of the district over age
55, who has completed the practice driving instruction part. In
no case, however, shall the amount of reimbursement made on
account of any student exceed the per pupil cost to the
district of the classroom instruction part and the practice
driving instruction part combined. The school district which is
the residence of a pupil who attends a nonpublic school in
another district that has furnished the driver education course
shall reimburse the district offering the course, the
difference between the actual per capita cost of giving the
course the previous school year and the amount reimbursed by
the State.
    By April 1 the nonpublic school shall notify the district
offering the course of the names and district numbers of the
nonresident students desiring to take such course the next
school year. The district offering such course shall notify the
district of residence of those students affected by April 15.
The school district furnishing the course may claim the
nonresident pupil for the purpose of making a claim for State
reimbursement under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 85-359.)
 
    (105 ILCS 5/27-24.5)  (from Ch. 122, par. 27-24.5)
    Sec. 27-24.5. Submission of claims. The Claims for
reimbursement under this Act shall be submitted in duplicate by
each district to the State Board prior to October 1 of each
year on such forms and in such manner as shall be prescribed by
the State Board. Claims from the 1997-1998 school year that are
received after September 1, 1998 but before October 1, 1998,
and only these claims, shall be paid in the same manner as if
they were received before September 1, 1998. In addition to the
claim form, the district shall report on forms prescribed by
the State Board, on an ongoing basis, a list of students by
name, birth date and sex, with the date the behind-the-wheel
instruction or the classroom instruction or both were completed
and with the status of the course completion.
    The State shall not reimburse any district for any student
who has repeated any part of the course more than once or who
did not meet the age requirements of this Act during the period
that the student was instructed in any part of the drivers
education course; nor shall the State reimburse any district
for any resident of the district over age 55.
(Source: P.A. 90-811, eff. 1-26-99.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.