House Sponsors: BLACK-HOLBROOK-DAVIS,STEVE-HOFFMAN-STEPHENS, MAUTINO AND MILLER. Senate Sponsors: MYERS-CLAYBORNE-BOWLES-SHAW Short description: SCH CD-AID-CLOSE SCH-TERRORISM Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the School Code. Provides that if the State Superintendent of Education determines that the failure to provide the minimum school term was due to a school being closed on or after September 11, 2001 for more than one-half day of attendance due to a bioterrorism or terrorism threat that was investigated by a law enforcement agency, the State aid claim shall not be reduced. Effective immediately. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 2. Adds reference to: 105 ILCS 5/18-9 from Ch. 122, par. 18-9 Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the contents of the bill as introduced with the following additions. Provides that a partial day of attendance may be counted as a full day of attendance if the school district has provided at least one clock hour of instruction but must close the schools due to a condition beyond the control of the school district that poses a hazardous threat to the health and safety of pupils. Provides that if a school building is ordered to be closed by the school board, in consultation with a local emergency response agency, due to a condition that poses a hazardous threat to the health and safety of pupils, then the school district shall have a grace period of 4 days in which the general State aid claim shall not be reduced so that alternative housing of the pupils may be located. Further amends the Common School Fund Article of the School Code. In the Section concerning the requirement for special equalization and supplementary State aid, removes provisions concerning a school district that is claiming an equalization quota. Also makes changes to the provision allowing a school district to amend and add a specified amount to its State aid claim if property comprising an aggregate assessed valuation equal to 3% or more of the total assessed valuation of all taxable property in the district is owned by a person or corporation who is the subject of bankruptcy proceedings or has been adjudged a bankrupt and as a result has not paid taxes on the property. Effective immediately. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 2. Deletes reference to: 105 ILCS 5/18-12 Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Amends the School Code. Provides that if property comprising an aggregate assessed valuation equal to 6% or more of the total assessed valuation of all taxable property in a school district is owned by a person or corporation that is the subject of bankruptcy proceedings or that has been adjudged a bankrupt and, as a result thereof, has not paid taxes on the property, then the district may amend its general State aid claim (i) back to the inception of the bankruptcy, not to exceed 6 years, in which time those taxes were not paid and (ii) for each succeeding year that those taxes remain unpaid, by adding to the claim an amount determined by multiplying the assessed valuation of the property by the lesser of the total tax rate for the district for the tax year for which the taxes are unpaid or the applicable rate used in calculating the district's general State aid. Effective immediately. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 3. Adds reference to: 105 ILCS 5/18-12 from Ch. 122, par. 18-12 Reinserts provisions of the bill as engrossed concerning days of attendance. Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 92-0661 Last action date: JUL-16-2002 Location: House Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 1 SENATE - 2 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status