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90_SB0069eng

      105 ILCS 5/10-22.25a      from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.25a
      105 ILCS 5/17-2.2c        from Ch. 122, par. 17-2.2c
          Amends the School Code.  In the  provisions  relating  to
      school  district  leases  of personal property for a term not
      exceeding 5  years,  defines  personal  property  to  include
      computer  hardware  and software and all equipment, fixtures,
      renovations, and improvements to district facilities that are
      necessary  to  accommodate  computers.   In  the   provisions
      relating  to  the  tax  that  school  districts  may levy for
      leasing educational facilities, includes computer  technology
      as  a  purpose  for which that tax may be levied.  Authorizes
      the district to pledge the proceeds of that tax  as  security
      for  the  payment  of any lease, lease-purchase agreement, or
      installment purchase agreement for the lease  of  educational
      facilities   or   computer  technology  or  both.   Specifies
      expenditures that may be made with the proceeds  of  the  tax
      levied   for   leasing  educational  facilities  or  computer
      technology or both.  Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT in relation to school technology.
 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
 5    Sections 10-22.25a and 17-2.2c as follows:
 6        (105 ILCS 5/10-22.25a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.25a)
 7        Sec.  10-22.25a.  To  obtain  personal   property,   when
 8    authorized  by  an  affirmative vote of 2/3 of the members of
 9    the board, by lease, with or without an option  to  purchase,
10    for  a  period  not to exceed 5 years or by purchase under an
11    installment contract extending over a period of not more than
12    5 years, with interest at a rate not to  exceed  the  maximum
13    rate  authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at
14    the time of the making of the  contract;  provided  that  the
15    term  of  guaranteed  energy  savings contracts as defined in
16    Article 19b of the School Code may exceed 5  years.  For  the
17    purpose   of  this  Section,  personal property shall include
18    computer hardware and software and all  equipment,  fixtures,
19    renovations,  and  improvements to existing facilities of the
20    district necessary to accommodate computers.
21        With respect to instruments  for  the  payment  of  money
22    issued  under  this  Section  either before, on, or after the
23    effective date of this amendatory Act  of  1989,  it  is  and
24    always  has  been  the  intention of the General Assembly (i)
25    that  the  Omnibus  Bond  Acts  are  and  always  have   been
26    supplementary   grants  of  power  to  issue  instruments  in
27    accordance with the Omnibus  Bond  Acts,  regardless  of  any
28    provision  of  this Act that may appear to be or to have been
29    more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of
30    this Section  are  not  a  limitation  on  the  supplementary
31    authority  granted  by  the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that
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 1    instruments   issued   under   this   Section   within    the
 2    supplementary  authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are
 3    not invalid because of any provision of  this  Act  that  may
 4    appear  to  be  or  to  have been more restrictive than those
 5    Acts.
 6    (Source: P.A. 86-927; 87-1106.)
 7        (105 ILCS 5/17-2.2c) (from Ch. 122, par. 17-2.2c)
 8        Sec. 17-2.2c.  Tax for leasing educational facilities  or
 9    computer  technology  or  both,  and for temporary relocation
10    expense purposes. The school board of  any  district,  except
11    for  school  boards of districts in municipalities of 500,000
12    or more, may, by proper resolution levy  an  annual  tax,  in
13    addition   to   any  other  taxes  and  not  subject  to  the
14    limitations specified  elsewhere  in  this  Article,  not  to
15    exceed  .05%  upon  the  value  of  the  taxable  property as
16    equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue,  for  the
17    purpose   of   leasing  educational  facilities  or  computer
18    technology or both, and, until the school district has repaid
19    to the State all  moneys  distributed  to  it  for  temporary
20    relocation  expenses  of the district, may levy an annual tax
21    not to exceed .05% upon the value of the taxable property  as
22    equalized  or  assessed  by the Department of Revenue for the
23    purpose of providing for the repayment of moneys  distributed
24    for  temporary  relocation  expenses  of  the school district
25    pursuant to Section 2-3.77.
26        The tax rate limit specified by this Section with respect
27    to  an  annual  tax  levied  for  the  purpose   of   leasing
28    educational  facilities or computer technology or both may be
29    increased to .10% upon  the  approval  of  a  proposition  to
30    effect  such increase by a majority of the electors voting on
31    that proposition  at  a  regular  scheduled  election.   Such
32    proposition  may  be  initiated  by  resolution of the school
33    board and shall be certified by the secretary to  the  proper
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 1    election  authorities  for  submission in accordance with the
 2    general election law.
 3        The district is  authorized  to  pledge  any  tax  levied
 4    pursuant   to   this  Section  for  the  purpose  of  leasing
 5    educational facilities or  computer  technology  or  both  to
 6    secure the payment of any lease, lease-purchase agreement, or
 7    installment  purchase  agreement entered into by the district
 8    for such purpose.
 9        For the purposes of this Section, "leasing of educational
10    facilities or  computer  technology  or  both"  includes  any
11    payment with respect to a lease, lease-purchase agreement, or
12    installment  purchase  agreement to acquire or use buildings,
13    rooms, grounds, and appurtenances to be used by the  district
14    for  the use of schools or for school administration purposes
15    and all equipment, fixtures, renovations, and improvements to
16    existing facilities of the district necessary to  accommodate
17    computers, as well as computer hardware and software.
18        Any  school  district  may  abolish or abate its fund for
19    leasing educational facilities or computer technology or both
20    and  for  temporary  relocation  expense  purposes  upon  the
21    adoption  of  a  resolution   so   providing   and   upon   a
22    determination by the school board that the moneys in the fund
23    are  no  longer needed for leasing educational facilities  or
24    computer technology  or  both  or  for  temporary  relocation
25    expense  purposes.   The resolution shall direct the transfer
26    of any balance in the fund to another school district fund or
27    funds  immediately  upon  the   resolution   taking   effect.
28    Thereafter,  any  outstanding  taxes  of  the school district
29    levied pursuant to this Section shall be collected  and  paid
30    into  the  fund  or  funds  as  directed by the school board.
31    Nothing in this Section shall prevent a school district  that
32    has  abolished  or abated the fund from again creating a fund
33    for  leasing  educational  facilities   and   for   temporary
34    relocation  expense  purposes  in the manner provided in this
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 1    Section.
 2    (Source: P.A. 89-106, eff. 7-7-95.)
 3        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 4    becoming a law.

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