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90_SB0422

      15 ILCS 20/38.3
          Amends the Civil Administrative Code of  Illinois.   Adds
      to  the  Responsible  Education  Funding  Law  in  the Code a
      provision   that   requires   the   aggregate    supplemental
      appropriations   made  from  the  General  Revenue  Fund  for
      elementary and secondary education for a fiscal year to  bear
      to  the  aggregate  supplemental appropriations made from the
      General Revenue Fund for all purposes for that fiscal year  a
      ratio  that  is  not  less than the ratio which the aggregate
      non-supplemental  General  Revenue  Fund  appropriations  for
      elementary and secondary education for the fiscal  year  bear
      to   the  aggregate  non-supplemental  General  Revenue  Fund
      appropriations  for  all  purposes  for  that  fiscal   year.
      Defines supplemental appropriations.  Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
 2    by changing Section 38.3.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois  is
 6    amended by changing Section 38.3 as follows:
 7        (15 ILCS 20/38.3)
 8        Sec. 38.3.  Responsible Education Funding Law.
 9        (a)  The  Governor shall submit to the General Assembly a
10    proposed budget for elementary  and  secondary  education  in
11    which  total  General Revenue Fund appropriations are no less
12    than the total General Revenue  Fund  appropriations  of  the
13    previous  fiscal  year.   In  addition,  the  Governor  shall
14    specify  the total amount of funds to be transferred from the
15    General Revenue Fund to the Common  School  Fund  during  the
16    budget  year,  which  shall  be no less than the total amount
17    transferred during the previous fiscal  year.   The  Governor
18    may  submit a proposed budget in which the total appropriated
19    and transferred amounts are less  than  the  previous  fiscal
20    year  if  the  Governor  declares  in  writing to the General
21    Assembly the reason for the lesser amounts.
22        (b)  The General Assembly shall appropriate  amounts  for
23    elementary  and  secondary education from the General Revenue
24    Fund for each fiscal year so that the total  General  Revenue
25    Fund  appropriation is no less than the total General Revenue
26    Fund appropriation for elementary and secondary education for
27    the previous fiscal year.  In addition, the General  Assembly
28    shall legislatively transfer from the General Revenue Fund to
29    the  Common  School  Fund for such fiscal year a total amount
30    that is no less than the total  amount  transferred  for  the
31    previous  fiscal  year.  The General Assembly may appropriate
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 1    or transfer lesser amounts if it declares by Joint Resolution
 2    the reason for the lesser amounts.
 3        (c)  Beginning with fiscal year 1998 and in  each  fiscal
 4    year   thereafter,   the  aggregate  amount  of  supplemental
 5    appropriations made from the  General  Revenue  Fund  by  the
 6    General  Assembly  for elementary and secondary education for
 7    the fiscal year shall be an amount that is not less than  the
 8    product    of    the   aggregate   amount   of   supplemental
 9    appropriations made from the  General  Revenue  Fund  by  the
10    General  Assembly  for  all  purposes  for  that  fiscal year
11    multiplied by a fraction,  the  numerator  of  which  is  the
12    aggregate  amount  appropriated from the General Revenue Fund
13    for elementary and secondary education for that  fiscal  year
14    (exclusive  of the amount of any supplemental General Revenue
15    Fund  appropriations  made  for  elementary   and   secondary
16    education  for that fiscal year) and the denominator of which
17    is the aggregate amount appropriated from the General Revenue
18    Fund for all purposes for that fiscal year (exclusive of  the
19    amount    of    any   supplemental   General   Revenue   Fund
20    appropriations made for any purpose for  that  fiscal  year).
21    As  used  in  this  subsection, "supplemental appropriations"
22    means amounts appropriated  from  the  General  Revenue  Fund
23    under  legislation  that is introduced, amended, or made part
24    of a conference committee report and enacted on or after July
25    1 of a fiscal year and that increase the amount  appropriated
26    from the General Revenue Fund for that same fiscal year.
27        (d)  This   Section  may  be  cited  as  the  Responsible
28    Education Funding Law.
29    (Source: P.A. 88-660, eff. 9-16-94.)
30        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
31    becoming law.

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