Bill Text: IL HB3052 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides for the combination of Chicago Heights School District 170 and Ford Heights School District 169 into a new Heights School District 170. Sets forth requirements concerning transitioning the school board and sets forth provisions concerning bonding and tax levies. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-31 - Tabled [HB3052 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB3052-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB3052 Introduced , by Rep. Thaddeus Jones SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/11E-140 new
Amends the School Code. Provides for the combination of Chicago Heights School District 170 and Ford Heights School District 169 into a new Heights School District 170. Sets forth requirements concerning transitioning the school board and sets forth provisions concerning bonding and tax levies. Effective immediately.
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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 adding Section
11E-140 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/11E-140 new)
Sec. 11E-140. Combination of Chicago Heights School
District 170 and Ford Heights School District 169.
(a) On July 1, 2018, Chicago Heights School District 170
and Ford Heights School District 169 shall be combined as a
single school district, which may be referred to as Heights
School District 170.
(b) The school board of the combined Heights School
District 170 shall consist of the school board of Chicago
Heights School District 170. Following the 2019 consolidated
election, the school board of the combined Heights School
District 170 shall consist of the 4 members of the school board
of Chicago Heights School District 170 whose terms expire in
2021 and the successors to the 3 members of the school board of
Chicago Heights School District 170 whose terms expire in 2019,
who shall be chosen by the electors of the combined Heights
School District 170. All successive members of the school board
shall be chosen by the electors of the combined Heights School

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District 170.
(c) Upon the combination provided for by this Section, any
outstanding bonded indebtedness of Chicago Heights School
District 170 or Ford Heights School District 169 shall be
treated as provided in this subsection (c) and in Section 19-29
of this Code. The tax rate for bonded indebtedness shall be
determined in the manner provided in Section 19-7 of this Code
and, notwithstanding the creation of such district, the county
clerk or clerks shall annually extend taxes for each
outstanding bond issue against all of the taxable property that
was situated within the boundaries of the district, as those
boundaries existed at the time of the issuance of the bond
issue, regardless of whether the property is still contained in
that same district at the time of the extension of the taxes by
the county clerk or clerks; provided that, notwithstanding the
provisions of Section 19-18 of this Code, upon resolution of
the school board, the county clerk must extend taxes to pay the
principal of and interest on any general obligation bonds
issued by the new district exclusively to refund any bonded
indebtedness of a district organized into the new district
against all of the taxable property that was situated within
the boundaries of the previously existing district as the
boundaries existed at the time of the issuance of the bonded
indebtedness being refunded; however, (i) the net interest rate
on the refunding bonds may not exceed the net interest rate on
the refunded bonds, (ii) the final maturity date of the

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refunding bonds may not extend beyond the final maturity date
of the refunded bonds, and (iii) the tax levy to pay the
refunding bonds in any levy year may not exceed the tax levy
that would have been required to pay the refunded bonds for
that levy year.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.