HB6701 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6701

Introduced 02/09/04, by Roger L. Eddy

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

105 ILCS 5/2-3.11	from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.11
105 ILCS 5/2-3.27	from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.27
105 ILCS 5/2-3.28	from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.28

Amends the School Code. Provides that the portion of the State Board of Education's annual report on school conditions concerning expenditures shall be given at both the district and school level in relation to student performance data by school. Also provides that the report shall contain information in relation to the means of promoting educational quality, effectiveness, and efficiency. In provisions concerning the State Board's rules, advice, and publications, all concerning budgets and accounting practices, and its rules concerning budget and accounting systems, adds provisions concerning performance management. Also provides that the rules concerning the decimal classification of accounts shall be to provide both district and school level financial data. Makes other changes. Effective July 1, 2004.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

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 2-3.11, 2-3.27, and 2-3.28 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/2-3.11) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.11)

Sec. 2-3.11. Report to Governor and General Assembly. To report to the Governor and General Assembly annually on or before January 14 the condition of the schools of the State for the preceding year, ending on June 30.

Such annual report shall contain reports of the State Teacher Certification Board; the schools of the State charitable institutions; reports on driver education, special education, and transportation; and for such year the annual statistical reports of the State Board of Education, including the number and kinds of school districts; number of school attendance centers; number of men and women teachers; enrollment by grades; total enrollment; total days attendance; total days absence; average daily attendance; number of elementary and secondary school graduates; assessed valuation; tax levies and tax rates for various purposes; amount of teachers' orders, anticipation warrants, and bonds outstanding; and number of men and women teachers and total enrollment of private schools. The report shall give for all school districts receipts from all sources and expenditures for all purposes for each fund; the total operating expense and the per capita cost; federal and state aids and reimbursements; new school buildings, and recognized schools; expenditures for all purposes at both the district and school level in relation to student performance data by school; the total operating expense; and the per capita cost; together with such other information and suggestions as the State Board of Education may deem important in relation to the schools and school laws and the means of promoting educational quality, effectiveness, and efficiency education throughout the State.

(Source: P.A. 84-1308; 84-1424.)

(105 ILCS 5/2-3.27) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.27)

Sec. 2-3.27. Budgets and accounting practices; forms and procedures. To formulate and approve forms, procedure and regulations for school district accounts and budgets required by this Act reflecting the gross amount of income and expenses, receipts and disbursements and extending a net surplus or deficit on operating items; , to advise and assist the officers of any district in respect to budgets, and accounting practices, and performance management practices and in the formulation and use of such books, records, and accounts or other forms as may be required to comply with the provisions of this Act and the effective and efficient management of a school district; to publish and keep current pamphlets or manuals in looseleaf form relating to budgetary and accounting procedure, performance management practices, or similar topics; to make all rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Act relating to budgetary and accounting procedures procedure and performance management practices, accounting, such rules and regulations to include but not to be limited to the establishment of a decimal classification of accounts to provide both district and school level financial data; to confer with various district, county and State officials or take such other action as may be reasonably required to carry out the provisions of this Act relating to budgets, and accounting, and performance management.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)

(105 ILCS 5/2-3.28) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.28)

Sec. 2-3.28. Rules and regulations of budget, and accounting, and performance management systems. To prescribe rules and regulations defining what shall constitute a budget, and accounting, and performance management system required under this Act. The rules and regulations shall prescribe the minimum extent of verification, the type of audit, and the extent of the audit report and shall require compliance with statutory requirements, including but not limited to the district and school level data requirement, and standards, and such requirements as the State Board of Education deems necessary for an adequate budget, and accounting, and performance management system.

The State Board of Education shall have 3 years in which to phase in the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly regarding the collection of school level financial information and to update and streamline the current budget and accounting procedures required for school districts.

(Source: P.A. 81-1508.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2004.