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| 1 | AN ACT concerning finance.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The School Construction Law is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 5-40 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 230/5-40)
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| 7 | Sec. 5-40. Supervision of school construction projects; | ||||||
| 8 | green projects. The Capital
Development Board shall exercise | ||||||
| 9 | general supervision over school construction
projects financed | ||||||
| 10 | pursuant to this Article. School districts, however, must be | ||||||
| 11 | allowed to choose the architect and engineer for their school | ||||||
| 12 | construction projects, and no project may be disapproved by the | ||||||
| 13 | State Board of Education or the Capital Development Board | ||||||
| 14 | solely due to a school district's selection of an architect or | ||||||
| 15 | engineer.
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| 16 | With respect to those school construction projects for | ||||||
| 17 | which a school district first applies for a grant on or after | ||||||
| 18 | July 1, 2007, the school construction project must receive | ||||||
| 19 | certification from the United States Green Building Council's | ||||||
| 20 | Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building | ||||||
| 21 | Rating System or the Green Building Initiative's Green Globes | ||||||
| 22 | Green Building Rating System or must meet green building | ||||||
| 23 | standards of the Capital Development Board and its Green | ||||||
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| 1 | Building Advisory Committee. With respect to those school | ||||||
| 2 | construction projects for which a school district applies for a | ||||||
| 3 | grant on or after July 1, 2009, the school construction project | ||||||
| 4 | must receive silver certification from the United States Green | ||||||
| 5 | Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental | ||||||
| 6 | Design Green Building Rating System unless all of the following | ||||||
| 7 | are met: | ||||||
| 8 | (1) the application submitted can be categorized as a | ||||||
| 9 | capital need prioritized under item (1) of Section 5-30 of | ||||||
| 10 | this Law; | ||||||
| 11 | (2) the renovation or replacement school construction | ||||||
| 12 | project is less than 40% replacement cost, or the project | ||||||
| 13 | has been granted a waiver by the Capital Development Board | ||||||
| 14 | in consultation with the State Board of Education in | ||||||
| 15 | accordance with rules promulgated pursuant to this Law; | ||||||
| 16 | (3) the school construction project is located in a | ||||||
| 17 | county that borders the Mississippi River with a population | ||||||
| 18 | of more than 33,000 and less than 34,000, according to the | ||||||
| 19 | 2010 decennial census; | ||||||
| 20 | (4) the school district for which the school | ||||||
| 21 | construction grant will be issued has no more than 1,100 | ||||||
| 22 | students, with the relevant school facility housing no more | ||||||
| 23 | than 700 students; | ||||||
| 24 | (5) the facilities for which the school construction | ||||||
| 25 | grant will be used have been condemned as of July 23, 2012; | ||||||
| 26 | and | ||||||
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| 1 | (6) the application for the school construction grant | ||||||
| 2 | has been approved prior to the effective date of this | ||||||
| 3 | amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly.
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| 4 | (Source: P.A. 95-416, eff. 8-24-07; 96-37, eff. 7-13-09.)
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| 5 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 6 | becoming law.
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