Bill Text: IL SB0577 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0577 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB0577-Amended.html
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0577 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB0577-Amended.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 577
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 577 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 | 14-7.02b as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/14-7.02b)
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7 | Sec. 14-7.02b. Funding for children requiring special | ||||||
8 | education services.
Payments to school districts for children | ||||||
9 | requiring
special education services documented in their | ||||||
10 | individualized education
program regardless of the program | ||||||
11 | from which these services are received,
excluding children | ||||||
12 | claimed under Sections 14-7.02 and 14-7.03 of this Code,
shall
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13 | be made in accordance with this Section. Funds received under | ||||||
14 | this Section
may be used only for the provision of special | ||||||
15 | educational facilities and
services as defined in Section | ||||||
16 | 14-1.08 of this Code.
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1 | The appropriation for fiscal year 2005 and thereafter shall | ||||||
2 | be based upon
the IDEA child count of all students in the | ||||||
3 | State, excluding students
claimed under Sections 14-7.02 and | ||||||
4 | 14-7.03 of this Code, on December 1 of the
fiscal year 2
years
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5 | preceding, multiplied by 17.5% of the general State aid
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6 | foundation level of support established for that fiscal year | ||||||
7 | under Section
18-8.05 of
this Code.
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8 | Beginning with fiscal year 2005 and through fiscal year | ||||||
9 | 2007, individual school districts
shall not receive payments | ||||||
10 | under this Section totaling less than they received
under the
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11 | funding authorized under Section 14-7.02a of this Code
during | ||||||
12 | fiscal year 2004, pursuant to the provisions of Section | ||||||
13 | 14-7.02a as they
were in effect before the effective date of | ||||||
14 | this amendatory Act of the 93rd
General Assembly. This base | ||||||
15 | level funding shall be computed first.
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16 | Beginning with fiscal year 2008 and each fiscal year | ||||||
17 | thereafter, individual school districts must not receive | ||||||
18 | payments under this Section totaling less than they received in | ||||||
19 | fiscal year 2007. This funding shall be computed last and shall | ||||||
20 | be a separate calculation from any other calculation set forth | ||||||
21 | in this Section. This amount is exempt from the requirements of | ||||||
22 | Section 1D-1 of this Code. Beginning with fiscal year 2014 and | ||||||
23 | each fiscal year thereafter, $15,000,000 from gaming revenues, | ||||||
24 | or so much of that amount as may be necessary, shall be | ||||||
25 | deposited into the Educational Assistance Fund to be used by | ||||||
26 | the State Board of Education for the purposes of this |
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1 | paragraph. | ||||||
2 | An amount equal to 85% of the funds remaining in the | ||||||
3 | appropriation shall be allocated to school districts based upon | ||||||
4 | the
district's average daily attendance reported for purposes | ||||||
5 | of Section
18-8.05 of this Code for the preceding school year. | ||||||
6 | Fifteen percent of the
funds
remaining in the appropriation
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7 | shall be allocated to school districts based upon the | ||||||
8 | district's low income
eligible pupil count used in the | ||||||
9 | calculation of general State aid under Section
18-8.05 of this | ||||||
10 | Code for the same fiscal year. One hundred percent of the
funds
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11 | computed and allocated to districts under this Section shall be | ||||||
12 | distributed and
paid to school districts.
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13 | For individual
students with disabilities whose program | ||||||
14 | costs exceed 4 times the
district's per capita tuition rate
as | ||||||
15 | calculated under Section 10-20.12a of this Code, the costs in | ||||||
16 | excess
of 4 times the district's per capita tuition rate shall | ||||||
17 | be paid by the State
Board of Education from unexpended IDEA | ||||||
18 | discretionary funds originally
designated for room and board | ||||||
19 | reimbursement pursuant to Section
14-8.01 of this Code. The | ||||||
20 | amount of tuition for these children shall be
determined by the | ||||||
21 | actual cost of maintaining classes for these children,
using | ||||||
22 | the per
capita cost formula set forth in Section 14-7.01 of | ||||||
23 | this Code, with the
program and cost being pre-approved by the | ||||||
24 | State Superintendent of
Education. Reimbursement for | ||||||
25 | individual students with disabilities whose program costs | ||||||
26 | exceed 4 times the district's per capita tuition rate shall be |
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1 | claimed beginning with costs encumbered for the 2004-2005 | ||||||
2 | school year and thereafter.
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3 | The State Board of Education shall prepare vouchers equal | ||||||
4 | to one-fourth the
amount allocated to districts, for | ||||||
5 | transmittal
to the State Comptroller on the 30th day of | ||||||
6 | September, December, and March,
respectively, and the final | ||||||
7 | voucher, no later than June 20. The Comptroller
shall make | ||||||
8 | payments pursuant to this Section to school districts as soon | ||||||
9 | as possible after receipt of vouchers. If the money
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10 | appropriated from the General Assembly for such purposes for | ||||||
11 | any year is
insufficient, it shall be apportioned on the basis | ||||||
12 | of the payments due to
school districts.
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13 | Nothing in this Section shall be construed to decrease or | ||||||
14 | increase the
percentage of all special education funds that are | ||||||
15 | allocated annually
under Article 1D of this Code
or to alter | ||||||
16 | the requirement that a
school district provide special | ||||||
17 | education services.
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18 | Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly | ||||||
19 | shall
eliminate any reimbursement obligation owed as of the | ||||||
20 | effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 93rd General | ||||||
21 | Assembly to a school district with in excess
of 500,000 | ||||||
22 | inhabitants.
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23 | (Source: P.A. 93-1022, eff. 8-24-08. 95-705, eff. 1-8-08.)
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24 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | ||||||
25 | 2013.".
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