Illinois Senate Bill 1507 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 20 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-27 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
Pending: Senate Assignments Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the School Code. Provides that school districts need not comply with and may discharge any mandate or requirement placed on school districts by the Code or by administrative rules adopted by the State Board of Education that is unfunded; with exceptions. Provides that before a school district may lawfully discharge an unfunded mandate, it must hold a public hearing and referendum on the matter; sets forth requirements concerning the hearing and referendum. Requires a school board to report each unfunded mandate it has discharged to the State Board of Education, and requires the State Board to compile and report this information to the General Assembly each year. Repeals a Section of the Code concerning an unfunded mandates prohibition.

SCH CD-UNFUNDED MANDATES

Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-27	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2015-03-17	Senate	Assigned to Executive
2015-02-20	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2015-02-20	Senate	First Reading
2015-02-20	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
105	5	22-60	Repealed Code	Citation Text
105	5	22-62	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1507&GAID=13&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=88&GA=99
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/99/SB/09900SB1507.htm