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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2164
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 2164 as follows:
3 on page 1, by replacing line 1 with the following:
4 "AN ACT concerning libraries."; and
5 on page 14, below line 29, by inserting the following:
6 "Section 15. The Illinois Library System Act is amended
7 by changing Section 8.4 as follows:
8 (75 ILCS 10/8.4) (from Ch. 81, par. 118.4)
9 Sec. 8.4. School library grants. Beginning July 1,
10 1989, the State Librarian shall make grants annually under
11 this Section to all school districts in the State for the
12 establishment and operation of qualified school libraries, or
13 the additional support of existing qualified school
14 libraries, from funds appropriated by the General Assembly.
15 Such grants shall be in the amount of $0.75 per student as
16 determined by the official enrollment as of the previous
17 September 30 of the respective school having a qualified
18 school library. If the moneys appropriated for grants under
19 this Section are not sufficient, the State Librarian shall
20 reduce the amount of the grants as necessary; in making these
21 reductions, the State Librarian shall endeavor to provide
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1 each school district that has a qualifying school library (i)
2 at least the same amount per student as the district received
3 under this Section in the preceding fiscal year, and (ii) a
4 total grant of at least $100.
5 To qualify for grants under this Section, a school
6 library must:
7 (1) Be an entity which serves the basic information
8 and library needs of the school's employees and students
9 through a bibliographically organized collection of
10 library materials, has at least one employee whose
11 primary duty is to serve as a librarian, and has a
12 collection permanently supported financially, accessible
13 centrally, and occupying identifiable quarters in one
14 principal location.
15 (2) Meet the requirements for membership in a
16 library system under the provisions of this Act.
17 (3) Have applied for membership in the library
18 system of jurisdiction if the system is a multitype
19 library system under this Act.
20 (4) Provide, as mutually determined by the Illinois
21 State Librarian and the Illinois State Board of
22 Education, library services which either meet or show
23 progress toward meeting the Illinois school library
24 standards as most recently adopted by the Illinois School
25 Library Media Association.
26 (5) Submit a statement certifying that the
27 financial support for the school library or libraries of
28 the applying school district has been maintained
29 undiminished, or if diminished, the percentage of
30 diminution of financial support is no more than the
31 percentage of diminution of the applying school's total
32 financial support for educational and operations purposes
33 since the submission of the last previous application of
34 the school district for the school library per student
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1 grant that was funded.
2 Grants under this Section shall be made only upon
3 application of the school district for its qualified school
4 library or school libraries.
5 (Source: P.A. 88-375.)".