Bill Text: IL SB1722 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Treasurers Article of the School Code. In provisions regarding a Class II county school unit where the trustees of schools appoint a treasurer, removes the requirement that the treasurer shall be a resident of the township.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-31 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [SB1722 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1722-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
8-1 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/8-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 8-1)
Sec. 8-1. Treasurers.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b) and
(c), in Class II county school units the trustees of schools
shall appoint a treasurer who shall be ex-officio clerk of the
board. The term of the township treasurer shall be for a 2 year
period beginning and ending on the first of July. The
treasurer shall be a resident of the township, but not be a
trustee, or school board member. He shall attend all meetings
and keep a record of the official proceedings of the trustees
of schools. Such record shall be open to public inspection.
All proceedings, when recorded, shall be signed by the
president and the clerk. If the clerk is absent, or refuses to
perform any of his duties, a clerk pro tempore may be
appointed. For sufficient cause the treasurer may be removed
from office by the trustees of schools. In case of a vacancy
the trustees of schools shall elect a treasurer for the
unexpired term.

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(b) In Class I county school units, and in each school
district which forms a part of a Class II county school unit
but which has withdrawn from the jurisdiction and authority of
the trustees of schools of the township in which such school
district is located and from the jurisdiction and authority of
the township treasurer in such Class II county school unit as
provided in subsection (b) of Section 5-1, each school board
shall either elect one of its members to serve as treasurer
without salary for a period of one year or appoint someone, not
a member of the school board, as its treasurer, and, except as
provided in this Section the board shall fix his compensation.
An appointed treasurer shall serve at the pleasure of the
board. An appointed treasurer shall be at least 21 years of
age, of approved integrity, but not a member of the county
board of school trustees. The records of the treasurer shall
be open to public inspection. Two or more such districts may
appoint the same treasurer. In case of a vacancy caused by the
death, resignation or the removal from office of the school
treasurer the school board shall appoint a treasurer. The
school board may determine the temporary incapacity of its
treasurer occasioned by illness, absence from the district or
any other cause which prevents the prompt performance of his
duties and appoint an acting treasurer to serve until the
board determines such temporary incapacity no longer exists.
(c) The school board of each elementary school, high
school and unit school district that forms a part of a Class II

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county school unit and that was under the jurisdiction and
authority of the township treasurer and trustees of schools of
a township at the time those offices were abolished in that
township as provided in subsection (c) of Section 5-1 shall
appoint a person to serve as treasurer of the school board. The
term of each school treasurer appointed under this subsection
shall be for a 2 year period beginning and ending on the first
day of July. A person appointed under this subsection to serve
as treasurer of a school board shall not be the superintendent
of schools of the school district. A person appointed and
serving under this subsection as treasurer of a school board
may concurrently serve as the treasurer of the regional board
of school trustees, if selected to serve in that capacity by
the regional board of school trustees, as provided in
subsection (c) of Section 5-1. The school board shall fix the
compensation of its school treasurer, and for sufficient cause
may remove the school treasurer from office. However, if a
member of the school board is also school treasurer, he or she
shall perform his or her duties as school treasurer without
compensation. In the case of a vacancy, the school board shall
appoint a school treasurer for the unexpired term. The school
board may determine the temporary incapacity of its treasurer
due to illness, absence from the district, or other cause that
prevents the prompt performance of his duties and may appoint
an acting treasurer to serve until the school board determines
that the temporary incapacity of its treasurer no longer

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exists.
(d) After October 1, 1977, each treasurer in a Class I
county school unit appointed under this Section for his first
term shall have a financial background or related experience
or 12 semester hours of credit of college level accounting.
(e) After August 14, 1989, any treasurer appointed under
this Section for his first term in Class II county school
units, including any person appointed by a school board to
serve as its treasurer as provided in subsection (c) of this
Section, shall be a certified public accountant or a certified
chief school business official as defined in part (3) of
Section 21-7.3 of this Act. Experience as a township treasurer
in a Class II county school unit prior to July 1, 1989 shall be
deemed the equivalent of certification.
(f) Concurrently with the election or appointment of its
own school treasurer by the school board of a school district
which forms a part of a Class II county school unit but which
no longer is subject to the jurisdiction and authority of a
township treasurer or trustees of schools of a township
because the district has withdrawn from the jurisdiction and
authority of the township treasurer and trustees of schools of
the township or because those offices have been abolished as
provided in subsection (b) or (c) of Section 5-1, all funds,
accounts, moneys, notes, bonds, mortgages and effects then
held by such township treasurer on behalf or for the use and
benefit of, or then credited by such township treasurer to any

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fund or account of such school district shall thereupon be
transferred and paid over by such township treasurer to the
school treasurer elected or appointed by the school board of
such school district. In addition the school treasurer of such
school district shall have the right, at all reasonable times,
to inspect all cash books, loan books, district account books
and journals kept by such township treasurer as provided in
Section 8-5 and to copy or otherwise reproduce such portions
thereof as such school treasurer deems necessary for the
performance of his duties.
(g) Upon the abolition of the offices of the township
treasurer and trustee of schools of a township as provided in
subsection (c) of Section 5-1, and subject to the limitation
of subsection (b) of Section 8-5 with respect to certain
records to be surrendered to the regional board of school
trustees, and except as otherwise provided in subsection (c)
of Section 5-1 with respect to the common school lands and
township loanable funds of that township and with respect to
the records, books and accounts relating to those common
school lands and township loanable funds, all school funds and
accounts, moneys, notes, bonds, securities, district account
books and other documents, records and effects then held by
the former township treasurer on behalf or for the use and
benefit of, or then credited by the former township treasurer
to any fund or account of any school district that was under
the jurisdiction and authority of the township treasurer at

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the time the office of that township treasurer was abolished
shall thereupon be transferred and paid over by the former
township treasurer to the appropriate school treasurer
appointed by the school board of each such district under
subsection (c) of this Section 8-1.
(h) If the school district of a school treasurer elected
or appointed under this Section is receiving emergency State
financial assistance under Article 1B, that school treasurer
is subject to the provisions of Article 1B.
(Source: P.A. 96-538, eff. 8-14-09.)