Public Act 098-0647
 
HB1711 EnrolledLRB098 05757 OMW 35796 b



    AN ACT concerning local government.

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




 
 
    Section 5. The School Code is amended  by changing Sections 
2-3.62 and 3-0.01 as follows:
 


    (105 ILCS 5/2-3.62)  (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.62)



    Sec. 2-3.62. Educational Service Centers. 

    (a) A regional network of educational service centers shall 
be established
by the State Board of Education to coordinate 
and combine existing services in
a manner which is practical 
and efficient and to provide new services to
schools as 
provided in this Section.  Services to be made available by such

centers shall include the planning, implementation and 
evaluation of:


        (1) (blank);


        (2) computer technology education;


        (3) mathematics, science and reading resources for 
    teachers including
continuing education, inservice 
    training and staff development.

    The centers may provide training, technical assistance, 
coordination and
planning in other program areas such as school 
improvement, school
accountability, financial planning, 
consultation, and services, career guidance, early childhood 
education, alcohol/drug
education and prevention, family life -
 sex education, electronic transmission
of data from school 
districts to the State, alternative education and regional

special education, and telecommunications systems that provide 
distance
learning. Such telecommunications systems may be 
obtained through the
Department of Central Management Services 
pursuant to Section 405-270 of the
Department of Central 
Management Services Law (20 ILCS 405/405-270). The programs and 
services of educational
service centers may be offered to 
private school teachers and private school
students within each 
service center area provided public schools have already
been 
afforded adequate access to such programs and services.

    Upon the abolition of the office, removal from office, 
disqualification for office, resignation from office, or 
expiration of the current term of office of the regional 
superintendent of schools, whichever is earlier, the chief 
administrative officer of the centers serving that portion of a 
Class II county school unit outside of a city of 500,000 or 
more inhabitants shall have and exercise, in and with respect 
to each educational service region having a population of 
2,000,000 or more inhabitants and in and with respect to each 
school district located in any such educational service region, 
all of the rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities 
theretofore vested by law in and exercised and performed by the 
regional superintendent of schools for that area under the 
provisions of this Code or any other laws of this State. 
    The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and 
regulations necessary
to implement this Section.  The rules 
shall include detailed standards which
delineate the scope and 
specific content of programs to be provided by each
Educational 
Service Center, as well as the specific planning, 
implementation
and evaluation services to be provided by each 
Center relative to its programs.
 The Board shall also provide 
the standards by which it will evaluate the
programs provided 
by each Center.

    (b) Centers serving Class 1 county school units shall be 
governed by an
11-member board, 3 members of which shall be 
public school teachers
nominated by the local bargaining 
representatives to the appropriate regional
superintendent for 
appointment and no more than 3 members of which shall be
from 
each of the following categories, including but not limited to

superintendents, regional superintendents, school board 
members
and a representative of an institution of higher 
education.  The members of
the board shall be appointed by the 
regional superintendents whose school
districts are served by 
the educational service center.
The composition of the board 
will reflect the revisions of this
amendatory Act of 1989 as 
the terms of office of current members expire.

    (c) The centers shall be of sufficient size and number to 
assure delivery
of services to all local school districts in 
the State.

    (d) From monies appropriated for this program the State 
Board of
Education shall provide grants paid from the Personal 
Property Tax Replacement Fund to qualifying Educational 
Service Centers
applying for such grants in accordance with 
rules and regulations
promulgated by the State Board of 
Education to implement this Section. 

    (e) The governing authority of each of the 18 regional 
educational service
centers shall appoint a family life - sex 
education advisory board
consisting of 2 parents, 2 teachers, 2 
school administrators, 2 school
board members, 2 health care 
professionals, one library system
representative, and the 
director of the regional educational service center
who shall 
serve as chairperson of the advisory board so appointed.  
Members
of the family life - sex education advisory boards 
shall serve without
compensation.  Each of the advisory boards 
appointed pursuant to this
subsection shall develop a plan for 
regional teacher-parent family life - sex
education training 
sessions and shall file a written report of such plan
with the 
governing board of their regional educational service center.  
The
directors of each of the regional educational service

centers shall thereupon meet, review each of the reports 
submitted by the
advisory boards and combine those reports into 
a single written report which
they shall file with the Citizens 
Council on School Problems prior to the
end of the regular 
school term of the 1987-1988 school year.

    (f) The 14 educational service centers serving Class I 
county school units
shall be disbanded on the first Monday of 
August, 1995, and their statutory
responsibilities and 
programs shall be assumed by the regional offices of
education, 
subject to rules and regulations developed by
the
State Board 
of Education.  The regional superintendents of schools elected 
by
the voters residing in all Class I counties shall serve as 
the chief
administrators for these programs and services.  By 
rule of the State Board of
Education, the 10 educational 
service regions of
lowest
population shall provide such 
services under cooperative agreements with larger
regions.

(Source: P.A. 97-619, eff. 11-14-11; 98-24, eff. 6-19-13.)

 



    (105 ILCS 5/3-0.01)  (from Ch. 122, par. 3-0.01)



    Sec. 3-0.01. 
"County superintendent of schools" and

"regional superintendent of schools" defined - Application of 
Article.

    (a) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (b), after 
the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 1975, the chief 
administrative
officer of an educational service region shall 
be designated and referred
to as the "regional superintendent 
of schools" or the "regional
superintendent" and after the 
effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993
the office held 
by the chief administrative officer shall be designated and

referred to as the "regional office of education". For purposes 
of the School
Code and except as otherwise provided by 
subsection (b), any reference to
"county superintendent of 
schools" or "county superintendent" means the
regional 
superintendent of schools.

    (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Article, 
but subject to subsection (b-1), in educational service regions 
containing
2,000,000 or more inhabitants, the office of 
regional superintendent of schools
is abolished. Subject to 
Section 2-3.105 of this Code, beginning on the effective date 
of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, all 
rights, powers, duties and responsibilities theretofore vested 
by
law in, and exercised and performed by the regional 
superintendent of schools
and by any assistant regional 
superintendents or other assistants or employees
in the office 
of the regional superintendent of schools being abolished shall 
be
vested in, exercised and performed by the chief 
administrative officer of the educational service centers 
established pursuant to Section 2-3.62 of this Code for any 
educational service region containing 2,000,000 or more 
inhabitants.  Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory 
Act of the 96th General Assembly, in an educational service 
region
containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants: (i) all books, 
records, maps, papers
and other documents belonging to or 
subject to the control or disposition of
the former regional 
superintendent of schools by virtue of his office shall be

transferred and delivered to the State Board of Education; (ii) 
possession or
control over all moneys, deposits and accounts in 
the possession or
subject to the control or disposition of the 
former regional superintendent
of schools by virtue of his 
office, including but not limited to
undistributed or 
unexpended moneys drawn from, and all amounts on deposit
in, 
the county, institute and supervisory expense funds, shall be

transferred to and placed under the control and disposition of 
the State Board
of Education, excepting only those moneys or 
accounts, if any, the source of
which is the county treasury, 
for proper redistribution to the educational service centers; 
and (iii) all other equipment, furnishings,
supplies and other 
personal property belonging to or subject to the control or

disposition of the former regional superintendent of schools by 
virtue of his
office, excepting only those items which were 
provided by the county board,
shall be transferred and 
delivered to the State Board of Education. Any Beginning on the 
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General 
Assembly, any reference in this Code to "regional 
superintendent of schools" or "regional superintendent", or

"county superintendent of schools" or "county superintendent" 
shall mean, with
respect to any educational service region 
containing 2,000,000 or more
inhabitants in which the office of 
regional superintendent of schools is
abolished, the chief 
administrative officer of the educational service centers 
established pursuant to Section 2-3.62 of this Code for the 
educational service region. Upon and after the first Monday of 
August 1995,
references in this Code and elsewhere to 
educational service regions of
2,000,000 or fewer inhabitants 
shall exclude any educational service region
containing a city 
of 500,000 or more inhabitants and references in this Code
and 
elsewhere to educational service regions of 2,000,000 or more 
inhabitants
shall mean an educational service region 
containing a city of 500,000 or more
inhabitants regardless of 
the actual population of the region.

    (b-1) References to "regional superintendent" shall also 
include the chief administrative officer of the educational 
service centers established under Section 2-3.62 of this Code 
and
 serving that portion of a Class
II county outside a city of 
500,000 or more population elected at the general
election in 
1994 and every 4 years thereafter.

    (c) This Article applies to the regional superintendent of 
a multicounty
educational service region formed under Article 
3A as well as to a single
county or partial county region, 
except that in case of conflict between
the provisions of this 
Article and of Article 3A in the case of a multicounty
region, 
the provisions of Article 3A shall apply.  Any reference to 
"county" or
to "educational service region" in this Article 
means a regional office of
education.

(Source: P.A. 96-893, eff. 7-1-10.)

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