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Sen. Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson
Filed: 3/14/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1931
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1931 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Education for Homeless Children Act is |
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| amended by changing Section 1-15 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 45/1-15)
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| Sec. 1-15. Transportation to school of origin. Subject to |
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| the provisions
of Article 29 of the School Code, if a child |
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| becomes a homeless child or if a
homeless child changes his or |
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| her temporary living arrangements, and if the
homeless child's |
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| parents or guardians decide to continue the child's education
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| in the school of origin, the parents or guardians shall make a |
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| good faith
effort to provide or arrange for transportation to |
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| and from the school of
origin, including authorizing relatives, |
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| friends, or a program for homeless
persons to provide the child |
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| with transportation to and from the school of
origin. If |
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| transportation to and from the school of origin is not provided |
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| in
that manner, it shall be provided in the following manner:
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| (1) if the homeless child continues to live in the |
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| school district in
which the school of origin is located, |
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| the child's transportation to and from
the school of origin |
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| shall be provided or arranged by the school district
in |
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| which the school of origin is located consistent with the |
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| requirements of
Article 29 of the School Code; and
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| (2) if the homeless child's living arrangements in the |
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| school district of
origin terminate and the child, though |
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| continuing his or her education in the
school of origin, |
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| begins living in another school district, the school |
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| district
of origin and the school district in which the |
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| homeless child is living shall
meet to apportion the |
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| responsibility and costs for providing the child with
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| transportation to and from the school of origin. If the |
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| school districts are
unable to agree, the responsibility |
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| and costs for transportation shall be
shared equally. If, |
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| however, the homeless child lives in a single abode in the |
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| other school district for longer than one year, then the |
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| school district in which the child is living shall be |
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| deemed the child's new district of residence.
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| If a parent or guardian chooses to have the child attend |
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| the school of
origin, that parent or guardian, a teacher of the |
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| child, and the principal or
his or her designee from the school |
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| of origin may meet at the option of the
parent or the school to |
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| evaluate whether that travel is in the best interest of
the |
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| child's development and education as compared to the |
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| development and
education available in attending the school |
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| nearest the child's abode. The
meeting shall also include |
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| consideration of the best interests of the homeless
family at |
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| its current abode. A parent may bring a representative of his |
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| or her
choice to the meeting. The meeting shall be convened if |
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| travel time is longer
than one hour each way.
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| (Source: P.A. 88-634, eff. 1-1-95; 88-686, eff. 1-24-95.)".
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