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1 AN ACT concerning regional superintendents of schools.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
5 Section 3-2.5 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/3-2.5)
7 Sec. 3-2.5. Salaries.
8 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section
9 subsection (b), the regional superintendents of schools shall
10 receive for their services an annual salary according to the
11 population, as determined by the last preceding federal
12 census, of the region they serve, as set out in the following
13 schedule:
14 SALARIES OF REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF
15 SCHOOLS
16 POPULATION OF REGION ANNUAL SALARY
17 Less than 48,000 $73,500 $66,000
18 48,000 to 99,999 $78,000 $70,500
19 100,000 to 999,999 $81,500 $74,000
20 1,000,000 and over $83,500 $76,000
21 The changes made by Public Act 86-98 in the annual salary
22 that the regional superintendents of schools shall receive
23 for their services shall apply to the annual salary received
24 by the regional superintendents of schools during each of
25 their elected terms of office that commence after July 26,
26 1989 and before the first Monday of August, 1995.
27 The changes made by Public Act 89-225 in the annual
28 salary that regional superintendents of schools shall receive
29 for their services shall apply to the annual salary received
30 by the regional superintendents of schools during each of
31 their elected terms of office that commence after August 4,
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1 1995 and end on August 1, 1999.
2 The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 91st
3 General Assembly in the annual salary that the regional
4 superintendents of schools shall receive for their services
5 shall apply to the annual salary received by the regional
6 superintendents of schools during each of their elected terms
7 of office that commence on or after August 2, 1999.
8 Beginning July 1, 2000, the salary that the regional
9 superintendent of schools receives for his or her services
10 shall be adjusted annually to reflect the percentage
11 increase, if any, in the most recent Consumer Price Index, as
12 defined and officially reported by the United States
13 Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, except that
14 no annual increment may exceed 2.9%. If the percentage of
15 change in the Consumer Price Index is a percentage decrease,
16 the salary that the regional superintendent of schools
17 receives shall not be adjusted for that year.
18 When regional superintendents are authorized by the
19 School Code to appoint assistant regional superintendents,
20 the assistant regional superintendent shall receive an annual
21 salary based on his or her qualifications and computed as a
22 percentage of the salary of the regional superintendent to
23 whom he or she is assistant, as set out in the following
24 schedule:
25 SALARIES OF ASSISTANT REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS
26 QUALIFICATIONS OF PERCENTAGE OF SALARY
27 ASSISTANT REGIONAL OF REGIONAL
28 SUPERINTENDENT SUPERINTENDENT
29 No Bachelor's degree, but
30 State certificate valid 70%
31 for teaching and
32 supervising.
33 Bachelor's degree plus
34 State certificate valid 75%
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1 for supervising.
2 Master's degree plus
3 State certificate valid 90%
4 for supervising.
5 However, in any region in which the appointment of more
6 than one assistant regional superintendent is authorized,
7 whether by Section 3-15.10 of this Code or otherwise, not
8 more than one assistant may be compensated at the 90% rate
9 and any other assistant shall be paid at not exceeding the
10 75% rate, in each case depending on the qualifications of the
11 assistant.
12 The salaries provided in this Section for regional
13 superintendents and assistant regional superintendents are
14 payable monthly from the Common School Fund. The State
15 Comptroller in making his or her warrant to any county for
16 the amount due it from the Common School Fund shall deduct
17 from it the several amounts for which warrants have been
18 issued to the regional superintendent, and any assistant
19 regional superintendent, of the educational service region
20 encompassing the county since the preceding apportionment of
21 the Common School Fund.
22 County boards may provide for additional compensation for
23 the regional superintendent or the assistant regional
24 superintendents, or for each of them, to be paid quarterly
25 from the county treasury.
26 (b) Upon abolition on July 1, 1994, of the office of
27 regional superintendent of schools in educational service
28 regions containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants as provided
29 in Section 3-0.01 of this Code, the provisions of subsection
30 (a) of this Section shall no longer apply in any educational
31 service region in which the office of regional superintendent
32 of schools is so abolished, and no salary or other
33 compensation shall be payable under that subsection (a) or
34 under any other provision of this Section with respect to the
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1 office so abolished or with respect to any assistant position
2 to the office so abolished.
3 (c) If the State pays all or any portion of the employee
4 contributions required under Section 16-152 of the Illinois
5 Pension Code for employees of the State Board of Education,
6 it shall also pay the employee contributions required of
7 regional superintendents of schools and assistant regional
8 superintendents of schools on the same basis, but excluding
9 any contributions based on compensation that is paid by the
10 county rather than the State.
11 This subsection (c) applies to contributions based on
12 payments of salary earned after the effective date of this
13 amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, except that in
14 the case of an elected regional superintendent of schools,
15 this subsection does not apply to contributions based on
16 payments of salary earned during a term of office that
17 commenced before the effective date of this amendatory Act.
18 (Source: P.A. 89-233, eff. 1-1-96; incorporates 89-225, eff.
19 8-4-95; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
20 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
21 becoming law.
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