HB4612enr 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB4612 Enrolled LRB098 18999 NHT 54148 b

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 29-20 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/29-20 new)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)

Sec. 29-20. Study on shared services contracts. The State Board of Education shall study shared services contracts in current student transportation in this State, as well as the opportunity for increased savings for future shared services contracts, and shall report its findings to the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2015. The study shall look at school districts that have entered into shared services contracts for student transportation. In addition, the study shall examine school districts with shared boundaries and apply examples of savings that a school district could save if it entered into a shared services contract. The State Board of Education need not examine school districts on a statewide basis, but may use individual representative examples in completing this study. This Section is repealed on January 1, 2016.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.