Senate Sponsors: KARPIEL-VIVERITO-WOOLARD. House Sponsors: PERSICO-FEIGENHOLTZ-MULLIGAN-CROTTY Short description: SCH CD-BOUNDARY CHANGES-TECH Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning boundary changes. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Deletes reference to: 105 ILCS 5/7-01 Adds reference to: 105 ILCS 5/7-2a from Ch. 122, par. 7-2a Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Amends the School Code. Provides that if a petition is initiated by two-thirds of the registered voters in a school district seeking to annex the district in its entirety to another school district or districts and the board of education of the annexing district or districts has not adopted a resolution agreeing to the annexation, then the annexation, if approved by the regional board of school trustees, is not effective until it is approved by the voters in each affected school district at an election held for the purpose of voting on the question. Requires a regional board of school trustees to conduct a hearing to determine the validity of a petition for dissolution (instead of requiring the board to exercise its discretion on the issue of annexing the territory of a district being dissolved). HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the contents of the bill as engrossed, but (i) restores current law allowing the school district to be dissolved and its territory annexed upon the filing of a petition signed by registered voters of the district (but changes the number of signatures required to two-thirds instead of a majority of the voters) and (ii) restores current law requiring a regional board of school trustees to exercise its discretion on the issue of annexing the territory of the district (instead of requiring the board to conduct a hearing to determine the validity of a petition for dissolution). Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE Last action date: JAN-07-2003 Location: Senate Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 1 SENATE - 1 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status