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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section 7-2b
2 and repealing Section 2-3.105a.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
6 Section 7-2b as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/7-2b) (from Ch. 122, par. 7-2b)
8 Sec. 7-2b. Annexation of non-coterminous territory from
9 an elementary or high school district.
10 (a) Any contiguous portion of a high school district
11 that constitutes 5% 10% or less of the equalized assessed
12 value of the district and 5% or less of the territory of the
13 district shall upon petition of two-thirds of the registered
14 voters of the territory proposed to be detached and annexed
15 be so detached and annexed by the regional board of school
16 trustees State Board of Education if granting such petition
17 shall make the affected segment of the boundaries of the high
18 school district the territory is proposed to be annexed to
19 identical, for the entirety of such affected segment, to the
20 boundaries of the elementary school district in which the
21 territory is located.
22 Any contiguous portion of an elementary school district
23 that constitutes 5% 10% or less of the equalized assessed
24 value of the district and 5% or less of the territory of the
25 district shall upon petition of two-thirds of the registered
26 voters of the territory proposed to be detached and annexed
27 be so detached and annexed by the regional board of school
28 trustees State Board of Education if granting such petition
29 shall make the affected segment of the boundaries of the
30 elementary school district the territory is proposed to be
31 annexed to identical, for the entirety of such affected
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1 segment, to the boundaries of the high school district in
2 which the territory is located.
3 The regional board of school trustees State Board of
4 Education shall have no authority or discretion to hear any
5 evidence or consider any issues except those that may be
6 necessary to determine whether the limitations and conditions
7 of this Section have been met.
8 No district may lose more than 5% of its equalized
9 assessed value or more than 5% of its territory through
10 petitions filed under this Section. If a petition seeks to
11 detach territory that would result in a cumulative total of
12 more than 5% of a district's equalized assessed value or more
13 than 5% of the district's territory being detached under this
14 Section, the petition shall be denied without prejudice to
15 its being filed pursuant to Section 7-6 of this Code.
16 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, this
17 paragraph shall apply to any detachments effected pursuant to
18 the provisions of this Section as they existed prior to the
19 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General
20 Assembly.
21 (b) At any time prior to the granting of the petition
22 calling for the detachment and annexation of non-coterminous
23 territory under this Section, the Committee of Ten designated
24 in the petition may amend the petition to withdraw the
25 detachment and annexation proposal and substitute in its
26 place a proposal to require the school district from which
27 the territory would have been detached to pay the per capita
28 tuition costs for each pupil residing in the non-coterminous
29 territory to attend the school district to which the
30 territory would have been annexed. If such amended petition
31 is granted, the school district from which the territory
32 would have been detached shall pay to the school district to
33 which the territory would have been annexed the per capita
34 tuition costs as determined under Section 10-20.12a for each
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1 pupil residing in the territory who chooses to attend the
2 school district to which the territory would have been
3 annexed. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10-22.5,
4 the school district to which the territory would have been
5 annexed shall admit any pupil that resides in the
6 non-coterminous territory and provide such pupils with any
7 services of the school. The payment and collection of
8 tuition and any other such matters as may need to be resolved
9 shall be established by an intergovernmental agreement
10 developed between the two affected school districts. Section
11 7-6 of this Code shall apply to petitions filed under this
12 Section except as otherwise provided in this Section.
13 The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 91st
14 General Assembly shall not apply to petitions pending on the
15 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General
16 Assembly.
17 (Source: P.A. 88-386; 89-397, eff. 8-20-95.)
18 (105 ILCS 5/2-3.105a rep.)
19 Section 10. The School Code is amended by repealing
20 Section 2-3.105a.
21 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
22 becoming law.
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