Bill Text: IL SB2147 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. In provisions concerning an application for a permit, provides that members of the public and the permit applicant shall have until 10 days before the meeting of the Health Facilities and Services Review Board to submit any written response concerning the Board staff's written review or findings regarding the permit application. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-11-14 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0619 [SB2147 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB2147-Amended.html

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Rep. Frank J. Mautino

Filed: 11/9/2011

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2147
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2147, AS AMENDED,
by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
following:
"Section 5. The State Revenue Sharing Act is amended by
changing Section 12 as follows:
(30 ILCS 115/12) (from Ch. 85, par. 616)
Sec. 12. Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund. There is
hereby created the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund, a
special fund in the State Treasury into which shall be paid all
revenue realized:
(a) all amounts realized from the additional personal
property tax replacement income tax imposed by subsections (c)
and (d) of Section 201 of the Illinois Income Tax Act, except
for those amounts deposited into the Income Tax Refund Fund
pursuant to subsection (c) of Section 901 of the Illinois

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Income Tax Act; and
(b) all amounts realized from the additional personal
property replacement invested capital taxes imposed by Section
2a.1 of the Messages Tax Act, Section 2a.1 of the Gas Revenue
Tax Act, Section 2a.1 of the Public Utilities Revenue Act, and
Section 3 of the Water Company Invested Capital Tax Act, and
amounts payable to the Department of Revenue under the
Telecommunications Infrastructure Maintenance Fee Act.
As soon as may be after the end of each month, the
Department of Revenue shall certify to the Treasurer and the
Comptroller the amount of all refunds paid out of the General
Revenue Fund through the preceding month on account of
overpayment of liability on taxes paid into the Personal
Property Tax Replacement Fund. Upon receipt of such
certification, the Treasurer and the Comptroller shall
transfer the amount so certified from the Personal Property Tax
Replacement Fund into the General Revenue Fund.
The payments of revenue into the Personal Property Tax
Replacement Fund shall be used exclusively for distribution to
taxing districts, regional offices and officials for fiscal
year 2012, and local officials as provided in this Section and
in the School Code, payment of the ordinary and contingent
expenses of the Property Tax Appeal Board, payment of the
expenses of the Department of Revenue incurred in administering
the collection and distribution of monies paid into the
Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund and transfers due to

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refunds to taxpayers for overpayment of liability for taxes
paid into the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund.
As soon as may be after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1980, the Department of Revenue shall certify
to the Treasurer the amount of net replacement revenue paid
into the General Revenue Fund prior to that effective date from
the additional tax imposed by Section 2a.1 of the Messages Tax
Act; Section 2a.1 of the Gas Revenue Tax Act; Section 2a.1 of
the Public Utilities Revenue Act; Section 3 of the Water
Company Invested Capital Tax Act; amounts collected by the
Department of Revenue under the Telecommunications
Infrastructure Maintenance Fee Act; and the additional
personal property tax replacement income tax imposed by the
Illinois Income Tax Act, as amended by Public Act 81-1st
Special Session-1. Net replacement revenue shall be defined as
the total amount paid into and remaining in the General Revenue
Fund as a result of those Acts minus the amount outstanding and
obligated from the General Revenue Fund in state vouchers or
warrants prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1980 as refunds to taxpayers for overpayment of liability under
those Acts.
All interest earned by monies accumulated in the Personal
Property Tax Replacement Fund shall be deposited in such Fund.
All amounts allocated pursuant to this Section are appropriated
on a continuing basis.
Prior to December 31, 1980, as soon as may be after the end

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of each quarter beginning with the quarter ending December 31,
1979, and on and after December 31, 1980, as soon as may be
after January 1, March 1, April 1, May 1, July 1, August 1,
October 1 and December 1 of each year, the Department of
Revenue shall allocate to each taxing district as defined in
Section 1-150 of the Property Tax Code, in accordance with the
provisions of paragraph (2) of this Section the portion of the
funds held in the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund which
is required to be distributed, as provided in paragraph (1),
for each quarter. Provided, however, under no circumstances
shall any taxing district during each of the first two years of
distribution of the taxes imposed by this amendatory Act of
1979 be entitled to an annual allocation which is less than the
funds such taxing district collected from the 1978 personal
property tax. Provided further that under no circumstances
shall any taxing district during the third year of distribution
of the taxes imposed by this amendatory Act of 1979 receive
less than 60% of the funds such taxing district collected from
the 1978 personal property tax. In the event that the total of
the allocations made as above provided for all taxing
districts, during either of such 3 years, exceeds the amount
available for distribution the allocation of each taxing
district shall be proportionately reduced. Except as provided
in Section 13 of this Act, the Department shall then certify,
pursuant to appropriation, such allocations to the State
Comptroller who shall pay over to the several taxing districts

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the respective amounts allocated to them.
Any township which receives an allocation based in whole or
in part upon personal property taxes which it levied pursuant
to Section 6-507 or 6-512 of the Illinois Highway Code and
which was previously required to be paid over to a municipality
shall immediately pay over to that municipality a proportionate
share of the personal property replacement funds which such
township receives.
Any municipality or township, other than a municipality
with a population in excess of 500,000, which receives an
allocation based in whole or in part on personal property taxes
which it levied pursuant to Sections 3-1, 3-4 and 3-6 of the
Illinois Local Library Act and which was previously required to
be paid over to a public library shall immediately pay over to
that library a proportionate share of the personal property tax
replacement funds which such municipality or township
receives; provided that if such a public library has converted
to a library organized under The Illinois Public Library
District Act, regardless of whether such conversion has
occurred on, after or before January 1, 1988, such
proportionate share shall be immediately paid over to the
library district which maintains and operates the library.
However, any library that has converted prior to January 1,
1988, and which hitherto has not received the personal property
tax replacement funds, shall receive such funds commencing on
January 1, 1988.

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Any township which receives an allocation based in whole or
in part on personal property taxes which it levied pursuant to
Section 1c of the Public Graveyards Act and which taxes were
previously required to be paid over to or used for such public
cemetery or cemeteries shall immediately pay over to or use for
such public cemetery or cemeteries a proportionate share of the
personal property tax replacement funds which the township
receives.
Any taxing district which receives an allocation based in
whole or in part upon personal property taxes which it levied
for another governmental body or school district in Cook County
in 1976 or for another governmental body or school district in
the remainder of the State in 1977 shall immediately pay over
to that governmental body or school district the amount of
personal property replacement funds which such governmental
body or school district would receive directly under the
provisions of paragraph (2) of this Section, had it levied its
own taxes.
(1) The portion of the Personal Property Tax
Replacement Fund required to be distributed as of the time
allocation is required to be made shall be the amount
available in such Fund as of the time allocation is
required to be made.
The amount available for distribution shall be the
total amount in the fund at such time minus the necessary
administrative and other authorized expenses as limited by

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the appropriation and the amount determined by: (a) $2.8
million for fiscal year 1981; (b) for fiscal year 1982,
.54% of the funds distributed from the fund during the
preceding fiscal year; (c) for fiscal year 1983 through
fiscal year 1988, .54% of the funds distributed from the
fund during the preceding fiscal year less .02% of such
fund for fiscal year 1983 and less .02% of such funds for
each fiscal year thereafter; (d) for fiscal year 1989
through fiscal year 2011 no more than 105% of the actual
administrative expenses of the prior fiscal year; or (e)
for fiscal year 2012 and beyond, a sufficient amount to pay
(i) stipends, additional compensation, salary
reimbursements, and other amounts directed to be paid out
of this Fund for local government officials as authorized
or required by statute and (ii) no more than 105% of the
actual administrative expenses of the prior fiscal year,
including payment of the ordinary and contingent expenses
of the Property Tax Appeal Board and payment of the
expenses of the Department of Revenue incurred in
administering the collection and distribution of moneys
paid into the Fund; or (f) for fiscal year 2012 only, a
sufficient amount to pay stipends, additional
compensation, salary reimbursements, and other amounts
directed to be paid out of this Fund for regional offices
and officials as authorized or required by statute. Such
portion of the fund shall be determined after the transfer

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into the General Revenue Fund due to refunds, if any, paid
from the General Revenue Fund during the preceding quarter.
If at any time, for any reason, there is insufficient
amount in the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund for
payments for regional offices and officials or local
officials or payment of costs of administration or for
transfers due to refunds at the end of any particular
month, the amount of such insufficiency shall be carried
over for the purposes of payments for regional offices and
officials, local officials, transfers into the General
Revenue Fund, and for purposes of costs of administration
to the following month or months. Net replacement revenue
held, and defined above, shall be transferred by the
Treasurer and Comptroller to the Personal Property Tax
Replacement Fund within 10 days of such certification.
(2) Each quarterly allocation shall first be
apportioned in the following manner: 51.65% for taxing
districts in Cook County and 48.35% for taxing districts in
the remainder of the State.
The Personal Property Replacement Ratio of each taxing
district outside Cook County shall be the ratio which the Tax
Base of that taxing district bears to the Downstate Tax Base.
The Tax Base of each taxing district outside of Cook County is
the personal property tax collections for that taxing district
for the 1977 tax year. The Downstate Tax Base is the personal
property tax collections for all taxing districts in the State

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outside of Cook County for the 1977 tax year. The Department of
Revenue shall have authority to review for accuracy and
completeness the personal property tax collections for each
taxing district outside Cook County for the 1977 tax year.
The Personal Property Replacement Ratio of each Cook County
taxing district shall be the ratio which the Tax Base of that
taxing district bears to the Cook County Tax Base. The Tax Base
of each Cook County taxing district is the personal property
tax collections for that taxing district for the 1976 tax year.
The Cook County Tax Base is the personal property tax
collections for all taxing districts in Cook County for the
1976 tax year. The Department of Revenue shall have authority
to review for accuracy and completeness the personal property
tax collections for each taxing district within Cook County for
the 1976 tax year.
For all purposes of this Section 12, amounts paid to a
taxing district for such tax years as may be applicable by a
foreign corporation under the provisions of Section 7-202 of
the Public Utilities Act, as amended, shall be deemed to be
personal property taxes collected by such taxing district for
such tax years as may be applicable. The Director shall
determine from the Illinois Commerce Commission, for any tax
year as may be applicable, the amounts so paid by any such
foreign corporation to any and all taxing districts. The
Illinois Commerce Commission shall furnish such information to
the Director. For all purposes of this Section 12, the Director

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shall deem such amounts to be collected personal property taxes
of each such taxing district for the applicable tax year or
years.
Taxing districts located both in Cook County and in one or
more other counties shall receive both a Cook County allocation
and a Downstate allocation determined in the same way as all
other taxing districts.
If any taxing district in existence on July 1, 1979 ceases
to exist, or discontinues its operations, its Tax Base shall
thereafter be deemed to be zero. If the powers, duties and
obligations of the discontinued taxing district are assumed by
another taxing district, the Tax Base of the discontinued
taxing district shall be added to the Tax Base of the taxing
district assuming such powers, duties and obligations.
If two or more taxing districts in existence on July 1,
1979, or a successor or successors thereto shall consolidate
into one taxing district, the Tax Base of such consolidated
taxing district shall be the sum of the Tax Bases of each of
the taxing districts which have consolidated.
If a single taxing district in existence on July 1, 1979,
or a successor or successors thereto shall be divided into two
or more separate taxing districts, the tax base of the taxing
district so divided shall be allocated to each of the resulting
taxing districts in proportion to the then current equalized
assessed value of each resulting taxing district.
If a portion of the territory of a taxing district is

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disconnected and annexed to another taxing district of the same
type, the Tax Base of the taxing district from which
disconnection was made shall be reduced in proportion to the
then current equalized assessed value of the disconnected
territory as compared with the then current equalized assessed
value within the entire territory of the taxing district prior
to disconnection, and the amount of such reduction shall be
added to the Tax Base of the taxing district to which
annexation is made.
If a community college district is created after July 1,
1979, beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1995, its Tax Base shall be 3.5% of the sum of the personal
property tax collected for the 1977 tax year within the
territorial jurisdiction of the district.
The amounts allocated and paid to taxing districts pursuant
to the provisions of this amendatory Act of 1979 shall be
deemed to be substitute revenues for the revenues derived from
taxes imposed on personal property pursuant to the provisions
of the "Revenue Act of 1939" or "An Act for the assessment and
taxation of private car line companies", approved July 22,
1943, as amended, or Section 414 of the Illinois Insurance
Code, prior to the abolition of such taxes and shall be used
for the same purposes as the revenues derived from ad valorem
taxes on real estate.
Monies received by any taxing districts from the Personal
Property Tax Replacement Fund shall be first applied toward

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payment of the proportionate amount of debt service which was
previously levied and collected from extensions against
personal property on bonds outstanding as of December 31, 1978
and next applied toward payment of the proportionate share of
the pension or retirement obligations of the taxing district
which were previously levied and collected from extensions
against personal property. For each such outstanding bond
issue, the County Clerk shall determine the percentage of the
debt service which was collected from extensions against real
estate in the taxing district for 1978 taxes payable in 1979,
as related to the total amount of such levies and collections
from extensions against both real and personal property. For
1979 and subsequent years' taxes, the County Clerk shall levy
and extend taxes against the real estate of each taxing
district which will yield the said percentage or percentages of
the debt service on such outstanding bonds. The balance of the
amount necessary to fully pay such debt service shall
constitute a first and prior lien upon the monies received by
each such taxing district through the Personal Property Tax
Replacement Fund and shall be first applied or set aside for
such purpose. In counties having fewer than 3,000,000
inhabitants, the amendments to this paragraph as made by this
amendatory Act of 1980 shall be first applicable to 1980 taxes
to be collected in 1981.
(Source: P.A. 96-45, eff. 7-15-09; 97-72, eff. 7-1-11.)

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Section 10. The Counties Code is amended by changing
Section 4-8002 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/4-8002) (from Ch. 34, par. 4-8002)
Sec. 4-8002. Additional compensation of sheriff and
recorder.
(a) In addition to any salary otherwise provided by law,
beginning December 1, 1998, subject to appropriation, the
sheriff of Cook County for his or her additional duties imposed
by other statutes or laws shall receive an annual stipend to be
paid by the Illinois Department of Revenue out of the Personal
Property Tax Replacement Fund in the amount of $6,500. The
county board shall not reduce or otherwise impair the
compensation payable from county funds to the sheriff if the
reduction or impairment is the result of the sheriff receiving
a stipend payable from State funds.
(b) In addition to any salary otherwise provided by law,
beginning December 1, 2000, subject to appropriation, the
recorder of deeds of Cook County for his or her additional
duties imposed by law shall receive an annual stipend to be
paid by the State Illinois Department of Revenue out of the
Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund in an amount equal to
the stipend paid to each recorder in other counties under
subsection (d) of Section 4-6001 of this Code. The county board
may not reduce or otherwise impair the compensation payable
from county funds to the recorder of deeds if the reduction or

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impairment is the result of the recorder of deeds receiving a
stipend payable from State funds.
(Source: P.A. 97-72, eff. 7-1-11.)
Section 15. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
2-3.62, 3-2.5, 3-15.10, and 18-5 and by adding Section 3A-18 as
follows:
(105 ILCS 5/2-3.62) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.62)
Sec. 2-3.62. Educational Service Centers.
(a) A regional network of educational service centers shall
be established by the State Board of Education to coordinate
and combine existing services in a manner which is practical
and efficient and to provide new services to schools as
provided in this Section. Services to be made available by such
centers shall include the planning, implementation and
evaluation of:
(1) (blank);
(2) computer technology education;
(3) mathematics, science and reading resources for
teachers including continuing education, inservice
training and staff development.
The centers may provide training, technical assistance,
coordination and planning in other program areas such as school
improvement, school accountability, financial planning,
consultation, and services, career guidance, early childhood

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education, alcohol/drug education and prevention, family life -
sex education, electronic transmission of data from school
districts to the State, alternative education and regional
special education, and telecommunications systems that provide
distance learning. Such telecommunications systems may be
obtained through the Department of Central Management Services
pursuant to Section 405-270 of the Department of Central
Management Services Law (20 ILCS 405/405-270). The programs and
services of educational service centers may be offered to
private school teachers and private school students within each
service center area provided public schools have already been
afforded adequate access to such programs and services.
Upon the abolition of the office, removal from office,
disqualification for office, resignation from office, or
expiration of the current term of office of the regional
superintendent of schools, whichever is earlier, centers
serving that portion of a Class II county school unit outside
of a city of 500,000 or more inhabitants shall have and
exercise, in and with respect to each educational service
region having a population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants and
in and with respect to each school district located in any such
educational service region, all of the rights, powers, duties,
and responsibilities theretofore vested by law in and exercised
and performed by the regional superintendent of schools for
that area under the provisions of this Code or any other laws
of this State.

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The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and
regulations necessary to implement this Section. The rules
shall include detailed standards which delineate the scope and
specific content of programs to be provided by each Educational
Service Center, as well as the specific planning,
implementation and evaluation services to be provided by each
Center relative to its programs. The Board shall also provide
the standards by which it will evaluate the programs provided
by each Center.
(b) Centers serving Class 1 county school units shall be
governed by an 11-member board, 3 members of which shall be
public school teachers nominated by the local bargaining
representatives to the appropriate regional superintendent for
appointment and no more than 3 members of which shall be from
each of the following categories, including but not limited to
superintendents, regional superintendents, school board
members and a representative of an institution of higher
education. The members of the board shall be appointed by the
regional superintendents whose school districts are served by
the educational service center. The composition of the board
will reflect the revisions of this amendatory Act of 1989 as
the terms of office of current members expire.
(c) The centers shall be of sufficient size and number to
assure delivery of services to all local school districts in
the State.
(d) From monies appropriated for this program the State

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Board of Education shall provide grants paid from the Personal
Property Tax Replacement Fund for fiscal year 2012 only, and
from the General Revenue Fund for fiscal year 2013 and beyond
to qualifying Educational Service Centers applying for such
grants in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by
the State Board of Education to implement this Section.
(e) The governing authority of each of the 18 regional
educational service centers shall appoint a family life - sex
education advisory board consisting of 2 parents, 2 teachers, 2
school administrators, 2 school board members, 2 health care
professionals, one library system representative, and the
director of the regional educational service center who shall
serve as chairperson of the advisory board so appointed.
Members of the family life - sex education advisory boards
shall serve without compensation. Each of the advisory boards
appointed pursuant to this subsection shall develop a plan for
regional teacher-parent family life - sex education training
sessions and shall file a written report of such plan with the
governing board of their regional educational service center.
The directors of each of the regional educational service
centers shall thereupon meet, review each of the reports
submitted by the advisory boards and combine those reports into
a single written report which they shall file with the Citizens
Council on School Problems prior to the end of the regular
school term of the 1987-1988 school year.
(f) The 14 educational service centers serving Class I

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county school units shall be disbanded on the first Monday of
August, 1995, and their statutory responsibilities and
programs shall be assumed by the regional offices of education,
subject to rules and regulations developed by the State Board
of Education. The regional superintendents of schools elected
by the voters residing in all Class I counties shall serve as
the chief administrators for these programs and services. By
rule of the State Board of Education, the 10 educational
service regions of lowest population shall provide such
services under cooperative agreements with larger regions.
(Source: P.A. 96-893, eff. 7-1-10.)
(105 ILCS 5/3-2.5)
Sec. 3-2.5. Salaries.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the
regional superintendents of schools shall receive for their
services an annual salary according to the population, as
determined by the last preceding federal census, of the region
they serve, as set out in the following schedule:
SALARIES OF REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF
SCHOOLS
POPULATION OF REGION ANNUAL SALARY
Less than 48,000 $73,500
48,000 to 99,999 $78,000
100,000 to 999,999 $81,500
1,000,000 and over $83,500

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The changes made by Public Act 86-98 in the annual salary
that the regional superintendents of schools shall receive for
their services shall apply to the annual salary received by the
regional superintendents of schools during each of their
elected terms of office that commence after July 26, 1989 and
before the first Monday of August, 1995.
The changes made by Public Act 89-225 in the annual salary
that regional superintendents of schools shall receive for
their services shall apply to the annual salary received by the
regional superintendents of schools during their elected terms
of office that commence after August 4, 1995 and end on August
1, 1999.
The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 91st General
Assembly in the annual salary that the regional superintendents
of schools shall receive for their services shall apply to the
annual salary received by the regional superintendents of
schools during each of their elected terms of office that
commence on or after August 2, 1999.
Beginning July 1, 2000, the salary that the regional
superintendent of schools receives for his or her services
shall be adjusted annually to reflect the percentage increase,
if any, in the most recent Consumer Price Index, as defined and
officially reported by the United States Department of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics, except that no annual increment may
exceed 2.9%. If the percentage of change in the Consumer Price
Index is a percentage decrease, the salary that the regional

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superintendent of schools receives shall not be adjusted for
that year.
When regional superintendents are authorized by the School
Code to appoint assistant regional superintendents, the
assistant regional superintendent shall receive an annual
salary based on his or her qualifications and computed as a
percentage of the salary of the regional superintendent to whom
he or she is assistant, as set out in the following schedule:
SALARIES OF ASSISTANT REGIONAL
SUPERINTENDENTS
QUALIFICATIONS OF PERCENTAGE OF SALARY
ASSISTANT REGIONAL OF REGIONAL
SUPERINTENDENT SUPERINTENDENT
No Bachelor's degree, but State
certificate valid for teaching
and supervising. 70%
Bachelor's degree plus
State certificate valid
for supervising. 75%
Master's degree plus
State certificate valid
for supervising. 90%
However, in any region in which the appointment of more
than one assistant regional superintendent is authorized,
whether by Section 3-15.10 of this Code or otherwise, not more
than one assistant may be compensated at the 90% rate and any

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other assistant shall be paid at not exceeding the 75% rate, in
each case depending on the qualifications of the assistant.
The salaries provided in this Section plus an amount for
other employment-related compensation or benefits for regional
superintendents and assistant regional superintendents are
payable monthly by the State Board of Education out of the
Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund through a specific
appropriation to that effect in the State Board of Education
budget for the fiscal year 2012 only, and are payable monthly
from the Common School Fund for fiscal year 2013 and beyond
through a specific appropriation to that effect in the State
Board of Education budget. The State Comptroller in making his
or her warrant to any county for the amount due it from the
Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund for the fiscal year 2012
only, and from the Common School Fund for fiscal year 2013 and
beyond shall deduct from it the several amounts for which
warrants have been issued to the regional superintendent, and
any assistant regional superintendent, of the educational
service region encompassing the county since the preceding
apportionment from the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund
for the fiscal year 2012 only, and from the Common School Fund
for fiscal year 2013 and beyond.
County boards may provide for additional compensation for
the regional superintendent or the assistant regional
superintendents, or for each of them, to be paid quarterly from
the county treasury.

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(b) Upon abolition of the office of regional superintendent
of schools in educational service regions containing 2,000,000
or more inhabitants as provided in Section 3-0.01 of this Code,
the funds provided under subsection (a) of this Section shall
continue to be appropriated and reallocated, as provided for
pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 3-0.01 of this Code, to
the educational service centers established pursuant to
Section 2-3.62 of this Code for an educational service region
containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants.
(c) If the State pays all or any portion of the employee
contributions required under Section 16-152 of the Illinois
Pension Code for employees of the State Board of Education, it
shall also, subject to appropriation in the State Board of
Education budget for such payments to Regional Superintendents
and Assistant Regional Superintendents, pay the employee
contributions required of regional superintendents of schools
and assistant regional superintendents of schools on the same
basis, but excluding any contributions based on compensation
that is paid by the county rather than the State.
This subsection (c) applies to contributions based on
payments of salary earned after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, except that in the
case of an elected regional superintendent of schools, this
subsection does not apply to contributions based on payments of
salary earned during a term of office that commenced before the
effective date of this amendatory Act.

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(Source: P.A. 96-893, eff. 7-1-10; 96-1086, eff. 7-16-10;
97-333, eff. 8-12-11.)
(105 ILCS 5/3-15.10) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-15.10)
Sec. 3-15.10. Assistant Regional Superintendent. To
employ, in counties or regions of 2,000,000 inhabitants or
less, in addition to any assistants authorized to be employed
with the approval of the county board, an assistant regional
superintendent of schools who shall be a person of good
attainment, versed in the principles and methods of education,
and qualified to teach and supervise schools under Article 21
of this Act; to fix the term of such assistant and direct his
work and define his duties. On the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, in regions
established within that portion of a Class II county school
unit outside of a city of 500,000 or more inhabitants, the
employment of all persons serving as assistant county or
regional superintendents of schools is terminated, the
position of assistant regional superintendent of schools in
each such region is abolished, and this Section shall,
beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
96th General Assembly, have no further application in the
educational service region. Assistant regional superintendents
shall each be a person of good attainment, versed in the
principles and methods of education, and qualified to teach and
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such assistant regional superintendent shall be so arranged and
directed that the county or regional superintendent and
assistant superintendent, together, shall devote an amount of
time during the school year, equal to at least the full time of
one individual, to the supervision of schools and of teaching
in the schools of the county.
A regional superintendent of schools shall not employ his
or her spouse, child, stepchild, or relative as an assistant
regional superintendent of schools. By September 1 each year, a
regional superintendent shall certify to the State Board of
Education that he or she has complied with this paragraph. If
the State Board of Education becomes aware of the fact that a
regional superintendent is employing his or her spouse, child,
stepchild, or relative as an assistant regional
superintendent, the State Board of Education shall report this
information to the Governor and the Comptroller, and the State
Board of Education shall not request for payment from the State
Comptroller any warrants for the payment of the assistant
regional superintendent's salary or other employment-related
compensation or benefits. In this paragraph, "relative" means a
grandparent, parent, aunt, uncle, sibling, first cousin,
nephew, niece, grandchild, or spouse of one of these persons.
This paragraph applies only to contracts for employment entered
into on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of
the 91st General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 96-893, eff. 7-1-10.)

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(105 ILCS 5/3A-18 new)
Sec. 3A-18. Streamlining Illinois' Regional Offices of
Education Commission.
(a) Recognizing the virtue of the regional offices of
education in that locally elected public servants are working
closely with local school boards and superintendents and in
partnership with the State Board of Education, and in an effort
to deliver these educational services more efficiently and
effectively, there is hereby established the Streamlining
Illinois' Regional Offices of Education Commission. The
Commission shall explore and examine all duties of the State
Board of Education and all regional offices of education and
intermediate service centers, as well as the boundaries of the
educational service regions as defined in this Article, in
order to determine which duties and responsibilities should be
provided regionally to more appropriately and efficiently
deliver services and whether the boundaries of the education
service regions can be expanded to streamline the regional
offices of education. The Commission shall ensure that its
recommendations include specifics as to the necessary funding
to carry out identified responsibilities.
(b) The Commission shall consist of all of the following
voting members:
(1) One person appointed by the Governor, who shall
serve as chairperson of the Commission.

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(2) One member appointed by the President of the
Senate.
(3) One member appointed by the Minority Leader of the
Senate.
(4) One member appointed by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
(5) One member appointed by the Minority Leader of the
House of Representatives.
(6) One member appointed by an association
representing regional superintendents of schools.
(7) One member appointed by an association
representing school boards.
(8) One member appointed by an association
representing school administrators.
(9) One member appointed by an association
representing school business officials.
(10) One member appointed by each of 2 statewide
associations representing teachers.
(11) One member from an intermediate service center
appointed by the State Superintendent of Education.
(12) One district superintendent from an urban school
district appointed by the State Superintendent of
Education.
(13) One district superintendent from a rural school
district appointed by the State Superintendent of
Education.

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(14) One representative from the State Board of
Education appointed by the State Superintendent of
Education.
Members appointed by the legislative leaders shall be
appointed for the duration of the Commission; in the event of a
vacancy, the appointment to fill the vacancy shall be made by
the legislative leader of the same house and party as the
leader who made the original appointment.
(c) The Commission may begin to conduct business upon the
appointment of a majority of the voting members.
(d) The State Board of Education shall be the agency
responsible for providing staff and administrative support to
the Commission.
(e) Members of the Commission shall receive no compensation
for their participation, but may be reimbursed by the State
Board of Education for expenses in connection with their
participation, including travel, if funds are available.
(f) The Commission shall submit a final report of its
findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General
Assembly on or before August 1, 2012. The Commission may submit
other reports as it deems appropriate.
(g) The Commission is abolished on August 2, 2012, and this
Section is repealed on August 2, 2012.
(105 ILCS 5/18-5) (from Ch. 122, par. 18-5)
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assistants. The State Board of Education shall request an
appropriation payable from the Personal Property Tax
Replacement Fund for fiscal year 2012 only, and the common
school fund for fiscal year 2013 and beyond as and for
compensation for regional superintendents of schools and the
assistant regional superintendents of schools authorized by
Section 3-15.10 of this Act, and as provided in "An Act
concerning fees and salaries and to classify the several
counties of this State with reference thereto", approved March
29, 1872 as amended, and shall present vouchers to the
Comptroller monthly for the payment to the several regional
superintendents and such assistant regional superintendents of
their compensation as fixed by law. Such payments shall be made
either (1) monthly, at the close of the month, or (2)
semimonthly on or around the 15th of the month and at the close
of the month, at the option of the regional superintendent or
assistant regional superintendent.
(Source: P.A. 83-686.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".