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90_HB3340
New Act
Creates the Illinois Learning with the Arts Act.
Provides that the State Board of Education, Illinois Arts
Council, and Board of Higher Education shall enter into an
intergovernmental agreement in accordance with the
Intergovernmental Cooperation Act to integrate, coordinate,
and maximize benefits available under other programs that
promote the use, understanding, and appreciation of the
visual and performing arts as a part of the educational
curriculum in the public schools, from the pre-school level
through grade 12. Provides that the emphasis of the Illinois
Learning with the Arts Program shall be upon the efficient
use of resources to present a comprehensive but
non-duplicative array of visual and performing arts programs.
Adds provisions relative to use under the intergovernmental
agreement of appropriations made to the parties to that
agreement for programs that may be administered in a more
efficient and coordinated manner under the intergovernmental
agreement. Also authorizes appropriations in fiscal years
after fiscal year 1999 for distribution to the
intergovernmental agreement's governing body to administer
visual and performing arts programs that replace those
previously administered by one or more of the parties to the
intergovernmental agreement. Effective July 1, 1998.
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1 AN ACT relating to a program for the arts.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5 Illinois Learning with the Arts Act.
6 Section 5. Creation of program. The Illinois Learning
7 with the Arts Program is hereby created. The program shall
8 be funded through and jointly administered and implemented by
9 the State Board of Education, the Illinois Arts Council, and
10 the Board of Higher Education under an intergovernmental
11 agreement entered into by and among them in accordance with
12 the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act.
13 Section 10. Purpose and operation of program. The
14 program (i) shall be under the direction of the joint
15 administrative board or other entity created by the
16 intergovernmental agreement as the governing body for the
17 program, and (ii) shall be designed to integrate, coordinate,
18 and maximize benefits under other programs that promote the
19 use, understanding, and appreciation of the visual and
20 performing arts as a part of the educational curriculum in
21 the public schools, from the pre-school level through grade
22 12. The Illinois Learning with the Arts Program shall also
23 encourage the cooperative development and implementation of
24 innovative concepts that find their application in (i) State
25 assessment of student performance and participation in the
26 arts, and (ii) interinstitutional programs for those students
27 in recognized teacher training institutions who are preparing
28 to qualify for separate certification designation in the fine
29 arts or related areas designated as provided in Section 21-4
30 of the School Code.
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1 Section 15. Funding and personnel. The emphasis of the
2 Illinois Learning with the Arts Program shall be upon the
3 efficient use of resources to present a comprehensive but
4 non-duplicative array of programs that will provide a forum
5 in which Illinois youth may express its creativity and enrich
6 its cultural horizons by meaningful exposure to and
7 participation in music, drama, dance, sculpture, painting,
8 and other visual and performing arts. To that end, beginning
9 with fiscal year 1999 and in each fiscal year thereafter, the
10 State Board of Education, Illinois Arts Council, and Board of
11 Higher Education may allocate such portion of their
12 respective appropriations for an expense, service, or grant
13 that could also be incurred, performed, or distributed for
14 the same purpose under the intergovernmental agreement but in
15 a more efficient and coordinated manner to the joint
16 administrative board or other entity created by the
17 intergovernmental agreement as the governing body of the
18 Illinois Learn with the Arts Program. In fiscal year 2000
19 and thereafter, from an additional appropriation made to any
20 entity party to the intergovernmental agreement for direct
21 distribution as a grant to the joint administrative board or
22 other governing body of the intergovernmental agreement, that
23 joint administrative board or governing body may administer
24 implementation of visual and performing arts programs in the
25 public schools, from the pre-school level through grade 12,
26 that replace duplicative or uncoordinated programs formerly
27 administered separately by one or more of the parties to the
28 intergovernmental agreement. Each entity that is a party to
29 the intergovernmental agreement may provide to the governing
30 body of that agreement such personnel, services, equipment,
31 and facilities as may be within its lawful power to provide
32 and necessary for the effective administration and
33 implementation of the intergovernmental agreement.
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1 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July
2 1, 1998.