House Sponsors: MAY-GARRETT-COULSON-MOORE-HOLBROOK, HOFFMAN, YOUNGE, BEAUBIEN, OSMOND, CAPPARELLI, BURKE, ACEVEDO, LYONS,JOSEPH, LANG, MENDOZA, MATHIAS, BRUNSVOLD, FLOWERS AND HOWARD. Senate Sponsors: LINK-GEO-KARIS-PETERSON Short description: SCH CD-TAX EQ GRANT-US BASE Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the School Code. Allows a tax-equivalent grant to be paid to a school district (other than the Chicago school district) if a United States military installation or base is located in the district. FISCAL NOTE (State Board of Education) It appears that both Scott Air Force base and the Great Lakes Naval base may own land within the boundaries of several school districts. At this point, SBE has been unable to deter- mine exactly how many acres are owned by the federal government in each affected school district or the average value of an acre in each school district. Therefore, SBE has been unable to calculate the State cost of HB 2390. STATE MANDATES NOTE (State Board of Education) At this point, SBE has not been able to determine which dis- tricts this may apply to, the number of acres of land owned by the U.S. in military bases/installations, or the average value of an acre in each school district. Therefore, SBE has been unable to calculate a potential cost for the State. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Makes a technical change. STATE MANDATES NOTE, H-AM 1 (State Board of Education) Assuming that each of the facilities owning land within the boundaries of Illinois school districts of less than 500,000 is completely within a single school district and the average value per taxable acre of the school district is the same as that of the county, the approximate cost of HB 2390 is $600,035 as follows: C.M. Price Support Center (Madison County) Acres 686 Average value per acre $ 5,471 Acres times average value $ 3,753,106 0.50% $ 18,766 Great Lakes Naval Base (Lake County) Acres 1,628 Average value per acre $ 59,129 Acres times average value $ 96,262,761 0.50% $ 481,314 Rock Island Arsenal (Rock Island County) Acres 946 Average value per acre $ 5,650 Acres times average value $ 5,345,099 0.50% $ 26,725 Scott Air Force Base (St. Clair County) Acres 3,278 Average value per acre $ 4,468 Acres times average value $ 14,646,104 0.50% $ 73,231 HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 2. Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the contents of the bill with the following additions. Provides that the school district must have students residing on the military installation or base who are in attendance in the district. Provides that for fiscal year 2002 only, the district superintendent shall certify matters on or before September 15, 2001 or 30 days after the amendatory Act becomes law, whichever is later. Provides that the grants shall be appropriated for distribution from a separate line item. Provides that payments shall commence in fiscal year 2002. Adds an immediate effective date. FISCAL NOTE, H-AM 1 (State Board of Education) Same as State Mandates note (H-am 1). Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE Last action date: JAN-07-2003 Location: House Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 2 SENATE - 0 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status