Bill Text: IL HB2219 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. With regard to grants to alternative schools, safe schools, and alternative learning opportunities programs, for fiscal year 2019, to calculate grant amounts to the programs operated by regional offices of education, the State Board of Education shall calculate an amount equal to the greater of the regional program's best 3 months of average daily attendance for the 2017-2018 school year or the average of the best 3 months of average daily attendance for the 2015-2016 school year through the 2017-2018 school year, multiplied by the amount of $6,119. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2219 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2219-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2219 Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/3-16
Amends the School Code. With regard to grants to alternative schools, safe schools, and alternative learning opportunities programs, for fiscal year 2019, to calculate grant amounts to the programs operated by regional offices of education, the State Board of Education shall calculate an amount equal to the greater of the regional program's best 3 months of average daily attendance for the 2017-2018 school year or the average of the best 3 months of average daily attendance for the 2015-2016 school year through the 2017-2018 school year, multiplied by the amount of $6,119. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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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
3-16 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/3-16)
Sec. 3-16. Grants to alternative schools, safe schools, and
alternative learning opportunities programs. The State Board
of Education, subject to appropriation, shall award grants to
alternative schools, safe schools, and alternative learning
opportunities programs operated by a regional office of
education. For fiscal year 2018, to To calculate grant amounts
to the programs operated by regional offices of education, the
State Board shall calculate an amount equal to the greater of
the regional program's best 3 months of average daily
attendance for the 2016-2017 school year or the average of the
best 3 months of average daily attendance for the 2014-2015
school year through the 2016-2017 school year, multiplied by
the amount of $6,119. For fiscal year 2019, to calculate grant
amounts to the programs operated by regional offices of
education, the State Board shall calculate an amount equal to
the greater of the regional program's best 3 months of average
daily attendance for the 2017-2018 school year or the average

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of the best 3 months of average daily attendance for the
2015-2016 school year through the 2017-2018 school year,
multiplied by the amount of $6,119. These amounts This amount
shall be termed the "Regional Program Increased Enrollment
Recognition". If the amount of the Regional Program Increased
Enrollment Recognition is greater than the amount of the
regional office of education program's Base Funding Minimum for
fiscal year 2018 or fiscal year 2019, calculated under Section
18-8.15, then the State Board of Education shall pay the
regional program a grant equal to the difference between the
regional program's Regional Program Increased Enrollment
Recognition and the Base Funding Minimum for fiscal year 2018
or fiscal year 2019, respectively. Nothing in this Section
shall be construed to alter any payments or calculations under
Section 18-8.15.
(Source: P.A. 100-587, eff. 6-4-18.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.