102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1731

 

Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Jim Durkin

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/5-1a  from Ch. 122, par. 5-1a

    Amends the Trustees of Schools Article of the School Code. Provides that the school board of a high school district located in a Class II county school unit may, by proper resolution, withdraw from the jurisdiction and authority of the township treasurer and the trustees of schools of a township in which all or any part of the school district is located. Requires the school board to elect or appoint its own school treasurer. Thereafter, provides that the trustees of schools shall no longer have or exercise any powers and duties with respect to the school district or the school district's business, operations, or assets; requires the township trustees to transfer and deliver to the school board all books and records relating to the school district's business and affairs; and provides that legal title to school buildings and school sites located within the school district shall be deemed transferred by operation of law to and shall vest in the school board. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
55-1a as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/5-1a)  (from Ch. 122, par. 5-1a)
7    Sec. 5-1a. High school districts.
8    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article or
9the School Code, the school board of any high school district
10that is located in a Class II county school unit and that on or
11after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1991 is
12subject to the jurisdiction and authority of a township
13treasurer and trustees of schools of a township in which all or
14any part of that school district is located may not withdraw
15from the jurisdiction and authority of that township treasurer
16and those trustees of schools, by proper resolution, and upon
17the adoption and passage of the resolution, thereupon elect or
18appoint its own school treasurer as provided in Section 8-1.
19Upon the adoption and passage of a resolution and the election
20or appointment by the school board of its own school
21treasurer: (1) the trustees of schools shall no longer have or
22exercise any powers and duties with respect to the school
23district governed by the school board or with respect to the

 

 

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1school business, operations, or assets of the school district;
2and (2) all books and records of the township trustees
3relating to the school business and affairs of the school
4district shall be transferred and delivered to the school
5board of the school district. Upon withdrawal, the legal title
6to and all right, title, and interest formerly held by the
7township trustees in any school buildings and school sites
8used and occupied by the school board of the withdrawing
9school district for school purposes, that legal title, right,
10title, and interest thereafter having been transferred to and
11vested in the regional board of school trustees under Public
12Act 87-473 until the abolition of that regional board of
13school trustees by Public Act 87-969, shall be deemed
14transferred by operation of law to and shall vest in the school
15board of that school district. and transfer or otherwise
16submit to the jurisdiction and authority of a township
17treasurer or trustees of school of another township, unless
18the school board of each underlying elementary school district
19whose territory includes all or any part of the territory
20included within that high school district, by resolution,
21consents to the proposed withdrawal by the school board of
22that high school district from the jurisdiction and authority
23of the township treasurer and trustees of schools of the
24township to which that high school district is subject and the
25transfer or other submission by the school board of that high
26school district to the jurisdiction and authority of a

 

 

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1township treasurer or trustees of schools of another township.
2    (b) A high school district that is subject to the
3jurisdiction and authority of the township treasurer and
4trustees of schools of a township in which those offices are
5abolished as provided in subsection (c) of Section 5-1 shall
6thereupon be required to appoint its own school treasurer as
7provided in paragraph (4) of subsection (c) of Section 5-1 and
8subsection (c) of Section 8-1, and shall be subject to and
9governed by the other changes made to the School Code by this
10amendatory Act of 1991, insofar as the same are applicable to a
11high school district.
12(Source: P.A. 87-473.)
 
13    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
14becoming law.