Bill Amendment: IL HB5024 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: SCH CD-REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENT
Status: 2016-04-22 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5024 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB5024-House_Amendment_001.html
Bill Title: SCH CD-REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENT
Status: 2016-04-22 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5024 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB5024-House_Amendment_001.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5024
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5024 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
5 | 3-1 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/3-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-1)
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7 | Sec. 3-1. Election; eligibility. Quadrennially there shall | ||||||
8 | be
elected in every county, except those which have been | ||||||
9 | consolidated into
a multicounty educational service region | ||||||
10 | under Article 3A and except
those having a population of | ||||||
11 | 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, a regional
superintendent of | ||||||
12 | schools, who shall enter
upon the discharge of his duties on | ||||||
13 | the first Monday of August next after
his election; provided, | ||||||
14 | however, that the term of office of each regional
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15 | superintendent of schools in office on June 30, 2003
is | ||||||
16 | terminated on
July 1, 2003, except that an incumbent regional
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1 | superintendent of schools
shall continue to serve until his | ||||||
2 | successor is elected and qualified, and each
regional | ||||||
3 | superintendent of schools elected at the general election in | ||||||
4 | 2002 and
every four years thereafter shall assume office on the | ||||||
5 | first day of July
next after his election. No one is eligible | ||||||
6 | to file his or her petition at any
primary election for the | ||||||
7 | nomination
as candidate for the office of regional | ||||||
8 | superintendent of schools nor to
enter upon the duties of such | ||||||
9 | office either by election or appointment
unless he or she | ||||||
10 | possesses the following qualifications: | ||||||
11 | (1) he or she is of good
character ; , | ||||||
12 | (2) he or she has a master's degree in education; , | ||||||
13 | (3) he has earned at least 20
semester hours of credit | ||||||
14 | in professional education at the graduate
level, | ||||||
15 | (3) he or she has had at least
4 years of experience in | ||||||
16 | teaching at any grade level, kindergarten through the | ||||||
17 | university graduate level; and | ||||||
18 | (4) he or she holds a valid all grade supervisory | ||||||
19 | license, a valid
State limited supervisory license, a valid | ||||||
20 | state life supervisory
license, or a valid administrative | ||||||
21 | license ; or he or she will have on staff an assistant | ||||||
22 | regional superintendent of schools who meets the | ||||||
23 | requirements of Section 3-15.10 of this Code, as signed by | ||||||
24 | an affidavit filed with the State Board of Education, and | ||||||
25 | has been employed with the regional office of education for | ||||||
26 | which he or she is seeking to serve as regional |
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1 | superintendent of schools for a minimum of 5 years in an | ||||||
2 | administrative capacity . , | ||||||
3 | (5) he has had at least
4 years experience in teaching, | ||||||
4 | and | ||||||
5 | (6) he was engaged for at least 2 years
of the 4 | ||||||
6 | previous years in full time teaching or supervising in the | ||||||
7 | common
public schools or serving as a county superintendent | ||||||
8 | of schools or regional
superintendent of schools for an | ||||||
9 | educational service region in the State of
Illinois.
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10 | No petition of any candidate for nomination for the office | ||||||
11 | of regional
superintendent of schools may be filed and no such | ||||||
12 | candidate's name may be
placed on a primary or general election | ||||||
13 | ballot, unless such candidate files
as part of his petition a | ||||||
14 | certificate from the State Board of Education
certifying that | ||||||
15 | from the records of its office such candidate has the
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16 | qualifications required by this Section; however, any | ||||||
17 | incumbent filing his
petition for nomination for a succeeding | ||||||
18 | term of office shall not be
required to attach such certificate | ||||||
19 | to his petition of candidacy.
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20 | Nomination papers filed under this Section are not valid | ||||||
21 | unless the
candidate named therein files with the county clerk | ||||||
22 | or State Board of
Elections a statement of economic interests | ||||||
23 | as required by the Illinois
Governmental Ethics Act. Such | ||||||
24 | receipt shall be so filed either previously
during the calendar | ||||||
25 | year in which his nomination papers were filed or
within the | ||||||
26 | period for the filing of nomination papers in accordance with
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1 | the general election law.
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2 | The changes in qualifications made by Public Act 76-1563 do | ||||||
3 | not affect
the right of an incumbent to seek reelection. The | ||||||
4 | changes in qualifications made by this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
5 | 99th General Assembly do not affect the right of an incumbent | ||||||
6 | to serve the remainder of his or her term.
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7 | On and after July 1, 1994, the provisions of this Section | ||||||
8 | shall have
no application in any educational service region | ||||||
9 | having a population of
2,000,000 or more inhabitants; provided | ||||||
10 | further that no election shall be
held in November of 1994 or | ||||||
11 | at any other time after July 1, 1992 for the office
of regional | ||||||
12 | superintendent of schools in any county or educational service
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13 | region having a population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants.
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14 | (Source: P.A. 99-30, eff. 7-10-15.)
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15 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
16 | becoming law.".
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