HB1785 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB1785

Introduced , by Rep. Jim Durkin

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

105 ILCS 230/5-37

Amends the School Construction Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning carry over projects.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning education.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The School Construction Law is amended by changing Section 5-37 as follows:

(105 ILCS 230/5-37)

Sec. 5-37. Carry over projects. If a school district has been issued a grant entitlement for a school construction project, has arranged and and approved all local financing, and is eligible to receive a school construction project grant award in any fiscal year, but does not receive such award in that year due to lack of adequate appropriations, such school construction projects shall be placed ahead of any new school construction projects within the same priority category as defined in Section 5-30 that are approved for grant awards for the following year.

(Source: P.A. 90-653, eff. 7-29-98.)