Sen. Patrick Welch

Filed: 5/11/2004

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 770

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 770 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
5 18-12 as follows:
 
6     (105 ILCS 5/18-12)  (from Ch. 122, par. 18-12)
7     Sec. 18-12. Dates for filing State aid claims. The school
8 board of each school district shall require teachers,
9 principals, or superintendents to furnish from records kept by
10 them such data as it needs in preparing and certifying to the
11 regional superintendent its school district report of claims
12 provided in Sections 18-8.05 through 18-10 as required by the
13 State Superintendent of Education. The district claim shall be
14 based on the latest available equalized assessed valuation and
15 tax rates, as provided in Section 18-8.05 and shall use the
16 average daily attendance as determined by the method outlined
17 in Section 18-8.05 and shall be certified and filed with the
18 regional superintendent by June 21 for districts with an
19 official school calendar end date before June 15 or within 2
20 weeks following the official school calendar end date for
21 districts with a school year end date of June 15 or later. The
22 regional superintendent shall certify and file with the State
23 Superintendent of Education district State aid claims by July 1
24 for districts with an official school calendar end date before

 

 

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1 June 15 or no later than July 15 for districts with an official
2 school calendar end date of June 15 or later. Failure to so
3 file by these deadlines constitutes a forfeiture of the right
4 to receive payment by the State until such claim is filed and
5 vouchered for payment. The regional superintendent of schools
6 shall certify the county report of claims by July 15; and the
7 State Superintendent of Education shall voucher for payment
8 those claims to the State Comptroller as provided in Section
9 18-11.
10     Except as otherwise provided in this Section, if any school
11 district fails to provide the minimum school term specified in
12 Section 10-19, the State aid claim for that year shall be
13 reduced by the State Superintendent of Education in an amount
14 equivalent to .56818% for each day less than the number of days
15 required by this Code.
16     If the State Superintendent of Education determines that
17 the failure to provide the minimum school term was occasioned
18 by an act or acts of God, or was occasioned by conditions
19 beyond the control of the school district which posed a
20 hazardous threat to the health and safety of pupils, the State
21 aid claim need not be reduced.
22     If the State Superintendent of Education determines that
23 the failure to provide the minimum school term was due to a
24 school being closed on or after September 11, 2001 for more
25 than one-half day of attendance due to a bioterrorism or
26 terrorism threat that was investigated by a law enforcement
27 agency, the State aid claim shall not be reduced.
28     If, during any school day, (i) a school district has
29 provided at least one clock hour of instruction but must close
30 the schools due to adverse weather conditions or due to a
31 condition beyond the control of the school district that poses
32 a hazardous threat to the health and safety of pupils prior to
33 providing the minimum hours of instruction required for a full
34 day of attendance, or (ii) the school district must delay the

 

 

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1 start of the school day due to adverse weather conditions and
2 this delay prevents the district from providing the minimum
3 hours of instruction required for a full day of attendance, the
4 partial day of attendance may be counted as a full day of
5 attendance. The partial day of attendance and the reasons
6 therefor shall be certified in writing within a month of the
7 closing or delayed start by the local school district
8 superintendent to the Regional Superintendent of Schools for
9 forwarding to the State Superintendent of Education for
10 approval.
11     If a school building is ordered to be closed by the school
12 board, in consultation with a local emergency response agency,
13 due to a condition that poses a hazardous threat to the health
14 and safety of pupils, then the school district shall have a
15 grace period of 4 days in which the general State aid claim
16 shall not be reduced so that alternative housing of the pupils
17 may be located.
18     Beginning with the 2003-2004 school year, if the failure of
19 a school district to provide the minimum school term was
20 occasioned by an act or acts of God or by conditions beyond the
21 control of the school district that posed a hazardous threat to
22 the health and safety of pupils, either of which must have
23 occurred after April 1 of the school year, then the school
24 district shall have a grace period of up to 5 days, to assess
25 the need to relocate pupils, in which the general State aid
26 claim shall not be reduced.
27     No exception to the requirement of providing a minimum
28 school term may be approved by the State Superintendent of
29 Education pursuant to this Section unless a school district has
30 first used all emergency days provided for in its regular
31 calendar.
32     If the State Superintendent of Education declares that an
33 energy shortage exists during any part of the school year for
34 the State or a designated portion of the State, a district may

 

 

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1 operate the school attendance centers within the district 4
2 days of the week during the time of the shortage by extending
3 each existing school day by one clock hour of school work, and
4 the State aid claim shall not be reduced, nor shall the
5 employees of that district suffer any reduction in salary or
6 benefits as a result thereof. A district may operate all
7 attendance centers on this revised schedule, or may apply the
8 schedule to selected attendance centers, taking into
9 consideration such factors as pupil transportation schedules
10 and patterns and sources of energy for individual attendance
11 centers.
12     No State aid claim may be filed for any district unless the
13 district superintendent executes and files with the State
14 Superintendent of Education, in the method prescribed by the
15 Superintendent, certification that the district has complied
16 with the requirements of Section 10-22.5 in regard to the
17 nonsegregation of pupils on account of color, creed, race, sex
18 or nationality.
19     No State aid claim may be filed for any district unless the
20 district superintendent executes and files with the State
21 Superintendent of Education, in the method prescribed by the
22 Superintendent, a sworn statement that to the best of his or
23 her knowledge or belief the employing or assigning personnel
24 have complied with Section 24-4 in all respects.
25     Electronically submitted State aid claims shall be
26 submitted by duly authorized district or regional individuals
27 over a secure network that is password protected. The
28 electronic submission of a State aid claim must be accompanied
29 with an affirmation that all of the provisions of Sections
30 18-8.05 through 18-10, 10-22.5, and 24-4 of this Code are met
31 in all respects.
32 (Source: P.A. 92-661, eff. 7-16-02; 93-54, eff. 7-1-03.)
 
33     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

 

 

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1 becoming law.".