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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 17-2 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/17-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 17-2)
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| 7 | Sec. 17-2. Tax levies; purposes; rates. Except as otherwise | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | provided in
Articles 12 and
and 13 of this Act, and except as | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | provided in Section 17-2.2e of this Act, the following maximum | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | rates shall apply to all
taxes levied after August 10, 1965, in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | districts having a population of less
than 500,000 inhabitants, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | including those districts organized under Article 11
of the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | School Code. The school board of any district having a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | population of
less than 500,000 inhabitants may levy a tax | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | annually, at not to exceed the
maximum rates and for the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | specified purposes, upon all the taxable property of
the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | district at the value, as equalized or assessed by the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | Department of
Revenue as follows:
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| 19 | (1) districts maintaining only grades 1 through 8, .92% | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | for educational
purposes and .25% for operations and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | maintenance purposes;
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| 22 | (2) districts maintaining only grades 9 through 12, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | .92% for
educational purposes and .25% for operations and | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | maintenance purposes;
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| 2 | (3) districts maintaining grades 1 through 12, 1.63% | ||||||
| 3 | for the 1985-86
school year, 1.68% for the 1986-87 school | ||||||
| 4 | year, 1.75% for the 1987-88
school year and 1.84% for the | ||||||
| 5 | 1988-89 school year and thereafter for
educational | ||||||
| 6 | purposes and .405% for the 1989-90 school year, .435% for | ||||||
| 7 | the
1990-91 school year, .465% for the 1991-92 school year, | ||||||
| 8 | and .50% for the
1992-93 school year and thereafter for | ||||||
| 9 | operations and maintenance purposes;
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| 10 | (4) all districts, 0.75% for capital improvement | ||||||
| 11 | purposes (which is in
addition to the levy for operations | ||||||
| 12 | and maintenance purposes), which tax is to
be
levied, | ||||||
| 13 | accumulated for not more than 6 years, and spent for | ||||||
| 14 | capital
improvement purposes (including but not limited to | ||||||
| 15 | the construction of a new
school building or buildings or | ||||||
| 16 | the purchase of school grounds on which any new
school | ||||||
| 17 | building is to be constructed or located, or both) only in | ||||||
| 18 | accordance
with Section 17-2.3 of this Act;
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| 19 | (5) districts maintaining only grades 1 through 8, .12% | ||||||
| 20 | for
transportation purposes, provided that districts | ||||||
| 21 | maintaining only grades
kindergarten through 8 which have | ||||||
| 22 | an enrollment of at least 2600 students
may levy, subject | ||||||
| 23 | to Section 17-2.2, at not to exceed a maximum rate of
.20% | ||||||
| 24 | for transportation purposes for any school year in which | ||||||
| 25 | the number of
students requiring transportation in the | ||||||
| 26 | district exceeds by at least 2%
the number of students | ||||||
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| 1 | requiring transportation in the district during the
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| 2 | preceding school year, as verified in the district's claim | ||||||
| 3 | for pupil
transportation and reimbursement and as | ||||||
| 4 | certified by the State Board of
Education to the county | ||||||
| 5 | clerk of the county in which such district is
located not | ||||||
| 6 | later than November 15 following the submission of such | ||||||
| 7 | claim;
districts maintaining only grades 9 through 12, .12% | ||||||
| 8 | for transportation
purposes; and districts maintaining | ||||||
| 9 | grades 1 through 12, .14% for the
1985-86 school year, .16% | ||||||
| 10 | for the 1986-87 school year, .18% for the 1987-88
school | ||||||
| 11 | year and .20% for the 1988-89 school year and thereafter, | ||||||
| 12 | for
transportation purposes;
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| 13 | (6) districts providing summer classes, .15% for | ||||||
| 14 | educational
purposes, subject to Section 17-2.1 of this | ||||||
| 15 | Act.
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| 16 | Whenever any special charter school district operating | ||||||
| 17 | grades 1
through 12, has organized or shall organize under the | ||||||
| 18 | general school
law, the district so organized may continue to | ||||||
| 19 | levy taxes at not to
exceed the rate at which taxes were last | ||||||
| 20 | actually extended by the
special charter district, except that | ||||||
| 21 | if such rate at which taxes were
last actually extended by such | ||||||
| 22 | special charter district was less than
the maximum rate for | ||||||
| 23 | districts maintaining grades 1 through 12
authorized under this | ||||||
| 24 | Section, such special charter district
nevertheless may levy | ||||||
| 25 | taxes at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate for
districts | ||||||
| 26 | maintaining grades 1 through 12 authorized under this Section,
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| 1 | and except that if any such district maintains only grades 1 | ||||||
| 2 | through 8,
the board may levy, for educational purposes, at a | ||||||
| 3 | rate not to exceed
the maximum rate for elementary districts | ||||||
| 4 | authorized under this Section.
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| 5 | Maximum rates before or after established in excess of | ||||||
| 6 | those
prescribed shall not be affected by the amendatory Act of | ||||||
| 7 | 1965.
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| 8 | (Source: P.A. 99-908, eff. 12-16-16.)
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