Public Act 098-0907
 
HB4612 EnrolledLRB098 18999 NHT 54148 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 adding Section
29-20 as follows:
 
    (105 ILCS 5/29-20 new)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)
    Sec. 29-20. Study on shared services contracts. The State
Board of Education shall study shared services contracts in
current student transportation in this State, as well as the
opportunity for increased savings for future shared services
contracts, and shall report its findings to the General
Assembly on or before January 1, 2015. The study shall look at
school districts that have entered into shared services
contracts for student transportation. In addition, the study
shall examine school districts with shared boundaries and apply
examples of savings that a school district could save if it
entered into a shared services contract. The State Board of
Education need not examine school districts on a statewide
basis, but may use individual representative examples in
completing this study. This Section is repealed on January 1,
2016.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.