Full Text of SB0516 99th General Assembly
SB0516eng 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning revenue.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 17-2 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/17-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 17-2)
| 7 | | Sec. 17-2. Tax levies; purposes; rates. Except as otherwise | 8 | | provided in
Articles 12 and 13 of this Act, the following | 9 | | maximum rates shall apply to all
taxes levied after August 10, | 10 | | 1965, in districts having a population of less
than 500,000 | 11 | | inhabitants, including those districts organized under Article | 12 | | 11
of the School Code. The school board of any district having | 13 | | a population of
less than 500,000 inhabitants may levy a tax | 14 | | annually, at not to exceed the
maximum rates and for the | 15 | | specified purposes, upon all the taxable property of
the | 16 | | district at the value, as equalized or assessed by the | 17 | | Department of
Revenue as follows:
| 18 | | (1) districts maintaining only grades 1 through 8, .92% | 19 | | for educational
purposes and .25% for operations and | 20 | | maintenance purposes;
| 21 | | (2) districts maintaining only grades 9 through 12, | 22 | | .92% for
educational purposes and .25% for operations and | 23 | | maintenance purposes;
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| 1 | | (3) districts maintaining grades 1 through 12, 1.63% | 2 | | for the 1985-86
school year, 1.68% for the 1986-87 school | 3 | | year, 1.75% for the 1987-88
school year and 1.84% for the | 4 | | 1988-89 school year and thereafter for
educational | 5 | | purposes and .405% for the 1989-90 school year, .435% for | 6 | | the
1990-91 school year, .465% for the 1991-92 school year, | 7 | | and .50% for the
1992-93 school year and thereafter for | 8 | | operations and maintenance purposes;
| 9 | | (4) all districts, 0.75% for capital improvement | 10 | | purposes (which is in
addition to the levy for operations | 11 | | and maintenance purposes), which tax is to
be
levied, | 12 | | accumulated for not more than 6 years, and spent for | 13 | | capital
improvement purposes (including but not limited to | 14 | | the construction of a new
school building or buildings or | 15 | | the purchase of school grounds on which any new
school | 16 | | building is to be constructed or located, or both) only in | 17 | | accordance
with Section 17-2.3 of this Act;
| 18 | | (5) districts maintaining only grades 1 through 8, .12% | 19 | | for
transportation purposes, provided that districts | 20 | | maintaining only grades
kindergarten through 8 which have | 21 | | an enrollment of at least 2600 students
may levy, subject | 22 | | to Section 17-2.2, at not to exceed a maximum rate of
.20% | 23 | | for transportation purposes for any school year in which | 24 | | the number of
students requiring transportation in the | 25 | | district exceeds by at least 2%
the number of students | 26 | | requiring transportation in the district during the
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| 1 | | preceding school year, as verified in the district's claim | 2 | | for pupil
transportation and reimbursement and as | 3 | | certified by the State Board of
Education to the county | 4 | | clerk of the county in which such district is
located not | 5 | | later than November 15 following the submission of such | 6 | | claim;
districts maintaining only grades 9 through 12, .12% | 7 | | for transportation
purposes; and districts maintaining | 8 | | grades 1 through 12, .14% for the
1985-86 school year, .16% | 9 | | for the 1986-87 school year, .18% for the 1987-88
school | 10 | | year and .20% for the 1988-89 school year and thereafter, | 11 | | for
transportation purposes;
| 12 | | (6) districts providing summer classes, .15% for | 13 | | educational
purposes, subject to Section 17-2.1 of this | 14 | | Act.
| 15 | | Whenever any special charter school district operating | 16 | | grades 1
through 12, has organized or shall organize under the | 17 | | general school
law, the district so organized may continue to | 18 | | levy taxes at not to
exceed the rate at which taxes were last | 19 | | actually extended by the
special charter district, except that | 20 | | if such rate at which taxes were
last actually extended by such | 21 | | special charter district was less than
the maximum rate for | 22 | | districts maintaining grades 1 through 12
authorized under this | 23 | | Section, such special charter district
nevertheless may levy | 24 | | taxes at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate for
districts | 25 | | maintaining grades 1 through 12 authorized under this Section,
| 26 | | and except that if any such district maintains only grades 1 |
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the board may levy, for educational purposes, at a | 2 | | rate not to exceed
the maximum rate for elementary districts | 3 | | authorized under this Section.
| 4 | | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning in | 5 | | levy year 2016, a school district that contains a federal | 6 | | military installation and is eligible to receive impact aid | 7 | | under Section 8003(b) of the federal Elementary and Secondary | 8 | | Education
Act or any successor program may levy taxes for any | 9 | | of the following purposes at a rate that exceeds the maximum | 10 | | rate set forth in this Section, Section 17-2.2a, or Section | 11 | | 17-2.2c, as applicable, provided that the district's maximum | 12 | | aggregate tax rate for all of those purposes may not exceed the | 13 | | minimum tax rate required to qualify for basic support payments | 14 | | under the Section 8003(b) impact aid program: | 15 | | (1) for educational purposes; | 16 | | (2) for operations and maintenance purposes; | 17 | | (3) for special education programs; | 18 | | (4) for leasing educational facilities or computer | 19 | | technology or both; or | 20 | | (5) for transportation purposes. | 21 | | Maximum rates before or after established in excess of | 22 | | those
prescribed shall not be affected by the amendatory Act of | 23 | | 1965.
| 24 | | (Source: P.A. 87-984; 87-1023; 88-45.)
| 25 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 26 | | becoming law. |
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