Bill Text: IL HB0813 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning recomputation of State aid claims.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-30 - Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Rule 19(b) / Motion Referred to Rules Committee [HB0813 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB0813-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
7-04 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/7-04) (from Ch. 122, par. 7-04)
Sec. 7-04. Districts in educational service regions of
2,000,000 or more inhabitants.
(a) In all proceedings under this Article to change by
detachment, annexation, division, dissolution, or any
combination of those methods the boundaries of any school
district (other than a school district organized under Article
34) located in an educational service region of 2,000,000 or
more inhabitants in which the regional board of school trustees
is abolished as provided in subsection (a) of Section 6-2, a
hearing panel as established in this Section the trustees of
schools of the township in which that school district is
located, as the successor under subsection (b) of Section 6-2
to the former regional board of school trustees with respect to
all territory located in that school township, shall have,
exercise, and perform all powers, duties, and responsibilities
required under this Article to be exercised and performed in
those proceedings by a regional board of school trustees. The

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chief administrative officers of the educational service
centers shall have, exercise, and perform all powers, duties,
and responsibilities required under this Article that are
otherwise assigned to regional superintendents of schools. ;
provided that if any school district affected by those
proceedings is located in a school township referred to in
subsection (b) of Section 5-1 and there are no trustees of
schools acting in that township then the school board of any
such district, as the successor under subsection (b) of Section
6-2 to the former regional board of school trustees with
respect to the territory comprising that school district, shall
have, exercise, and perform all powers, duties, and
responsibilities required under this Article to be exercised
and performed in those proceedings with respect to the
territory of that school district by a regional board of school
trustees; and provided further that: (i) when any school
district affected by those proceedings is located not only in
an educational service region of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants
but also in 2 or more school townships in that region that each
have trustees of schools of the township, then the boundaries
of that school district may be changed under this Article by
detachment, annexation, division, dissolution, or any
combination of those methods only by the concurrent action of,
taken following a joint hearing before the trustees of schools
of those townships (in that educational service region) in
which that school district is located; and (ii) if any part of

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the school district referred to in item (i) of this subsection
also lies within an educational service region that has a
regional board of school trustees, the boundaries of that
district may be changed under this Article only by the
concurrent action of, taken following a joint hearing before
the trustees of schools of the townships referred to in item
(i) of this subsection and the regional board of school
trustees of the educational service region referred to in this
item (ii) of this subsection. Whenever concurrent action and
joint hearings are required under this subsection, the original
petition shall be filed with the trustees of schools of the
township in which the territory or greatest portion of the
territory being detached is located, or if the territory is
being detached from more than one educational service region
then with the regional board of school trustees of the region
or the trustees of schools of the township in which the
territory or greatest portion of the territory being detached
is located.
(a-5) The hearing panel shall be made up of 3 members from
the governing board of the affected educational service center
and appointed by the chief administrative officer of the
affected educational service center. Individuals serving on
the hearing panel may not reside in the detaching or dissolving
school district or the annexing school district or be employed
or serve as a board member in the detaching or dissolving
school district or the annexing school district.

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(a-10) For purposes of this Section and Section 7-6 of this
Code, an educational service center is affected if any portion
of the territory that the petition seeks to have detached or
dissolved from any school district is located within the
boundaries of the educational service center. No other
educational service center may hear the petition.
The original petition shall be filed with the chief
administrative officer of the educational service center in
which the territory being detached or dissolved is located, or
if territory is being detached or dissolved from more than one
educational service center, then the petition shall be filed
with the chief administrative officer of the educational
service center in which the chief administrative officer has
supervision and control over the greatest portion of the
detaching or dissolving territory, as described in Section
3-14.2 of this Code. The chief administrative officer within
whose boundaries the joint hearing on the original petition is
conducted shall send a certified true copy of the transcript of
the hearing to each other educational service center or region
affected.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, all other
provisions of this Article shall apply to any proceedings under
this Article to change the boundaries of any school district
located in an educational service region having 2,000,000 or
more inhabitants in the same manner that those provisions apply
to any proceedings to change the boundaries of any school

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district located in any other educational service region;
provided, that any reference in those other provisions to the
regional board of school trustees shall mean, with respect to
all territory within an educational service region containing
2,000,000 or more inhabitants that formerly was served by a
regional board of school trustees abolished under subsection
(a) of Section 6-2, the hearing panel as established in this
Section the trustees of schools of the township or the school
board of the school district that is the successor under
subsection (b) of Section 6-2 to the former regional board of
school trustees with respect to the territory included within
that school township or school district.
(Source: P.A. 87-969.)