Public Act 094-0525
 
SB0297 Enrolled LRB094 04986 NHT 35018 b

    AN ACT relating to 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 Section
27-24.4 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. However, if a school district has adopted a policy
to permit proficiency examinations for the practice driving
part of the driver education course as provided under Section
27-24.3, then the school district is entitled to only one-half
of the reimbursement amount for the practice driving part for
each pupil who has passed the proficiency examination, and the
State Board of Education shall adjust the reimbursement formula
accordingly. Reimbursement under 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 to school districts by
the State Board of Education for reimbursement of claims from
the previous school year.
    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.)