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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 SB3094
Introduced 2/6/2004, by Dan Cronin - Dan Rutherford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/3A-3 |
from Ch. 122, par. 3A-3 |
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Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning educational service regions.
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A BILL FOR
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SB3094 |
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LRB093 21112 NHT 47164 b |
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
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| 3A-3 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/3A-3) (from Ch. 122, par. 3A-3)
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| Sec. 3A-3. Voluntary consolidation of educational service |
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| regions. Any 2 or
more educational service regions may be |
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| consolidated into a single region in
the manner provided in |
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| this Section. All of the territory of any educational
service |
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| region shall be determined by county boundaries, but |
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| supervision and
control over school districts that are divided |
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| by a county line shall be
determined under Section 3-14.2 of |
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| this Code
Act .
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| Each regional superintendent of a region that does not |
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| conform to the
population requirements of Section 3A-4 and |
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| seeks voluntary consolidation under
this Section shall appoint |
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| a nonpartisan citizens committee consisting of 5
members to |
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| consider the advisability of such a consolidation. Such |
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| regional
superintendent shall serve as ex officio secretary to |
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| the citizens committee.
This citizens committee may petition |
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| the regional board of school
trustees serving each of the |
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| regions involved for consolidation of those
regions into a |
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| single educational service region. When such a petition
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| filed, the regional board of school trustees shall conduct a |
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| hearing
on the petition, after notice of the hearing has been |
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| published once,
not more than 15 nor less than 10 days before |
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| the day of the hearing, in
a newspaper having general |
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| circulation in the region. The secretary of
the regional board |
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| of school trustees shall also notify the secretary of
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| school board affected by the proposed consolidation, the |
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| chairman of the
county board of each county affected thereby |