AN ACT making appropriations.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

    Section 5.  The sum of $17,141,600, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for Funding for Children Requiring Special Education-Hold Harmless, 14-7.02b of the School Code for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009.

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