SB2283eng 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB2283 Engrossed LRB096 11336 NHT 21784 b

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 Section 2-3.33 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/2-3.33) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.33)

Sec. 2-3.33. Recomputation of claims. To recompute within 3 years from the final date for filing of a claim any claim for reimbursement to any school district if the claim has been found to be incorrect and to adjust subsequent claims accordingly, and to recompute and adjust any such claims within 6 years from the final date for filing when there has been an adverse court or administrative agency decision on the merits affecting the tax revenues of the school district. However, no such adjustment shall be made regarding equalized assessed valuation unless the district's equalized assessed valuation is changed by greater than $250,000 or 2%.

Except in the case of an adverse court or administrative agency decision no recomputation of a State aid claim shall be made pursuant to this Section as a result of a reduction in the assessed valuation of a school district from the assessed valuation of the district reported to the State Board of Education by the Department of Revenue under Section 18-8.05 unless the requirements of Section 16-15 of the Property Tax Code and Section 2-3.84 of this Code are complied with in all respects.

This paragraph applies to all requests for recomputation of a general State aid claim received after June 30, 2003. In recomputing a general State aid claim that was originally calculated using an extension limitation equalized assessed valuation under paragraph (3) of subsection (G) of Section 18-8.05 of this Code, a qualifying reduction in equalized assessed valuation shall be deducted from the extension limitation equalized assessed valuation that was used in calculating the original claim.

This paragraph applies to all requests for recomputation of a general State aid claim received regarding a county clerk's use of an estimate of equalized assessed valuation for multi-county jurisdictions that resulted in the calculation and use of a subsequent year limiting rate, utilized in the general State aid claim of a school district, that was different than the actual operating rate extended in the year subsequent to the use of the estimate. The district's general State aid shall be recalculated in the first year applicable by substituting the operating tax rate, instead of the limiting rate, for the base tax year in the numerator of the Extension Limitation Ratio as calculated under paragraph (3) of subsection (G) of Section 18-8.05 of this Code. However, no such adjustment shall be made regarding the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation unless the district's Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation is changed by greater than $5,000,000 or 5%. Furthermore, any subsequent year Available Local Resources that have been calculated under paragraph (3) of subsection (G) of Section 18-8.05 of this Code shall utilize the recomputed value of the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation that was determined from the preceding year recomputation until the district's current year State aid claim is calculated such that the original year and all subsequent year's recomputations are calculated and reflected in the current year general State aid claim.

From the total amount of general State aid to be provided to districts, adjustments as a result of recomputation under this Section together with adjustments under Section 2-3.84 must not exceed $25 million, in the aggregate for all districts under both Sections combined, of the general State aid appropriation in any fiscal year; if necessary, amounts shall be prorated among districts. If it is necessary to prorate claims under this paragraph, then that portion of each prorated claim that is approved but not paid in the current fiscal year may be resubmitted as a valid claim in the following fiscal year.

(Source: P.A. 93-845, eff. 7-30-04.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.