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1    AN ACT concerning education.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended  by changing Section 
514-1.11a as follows:
 



6    (105 ILCS 5/14-1.11a)  (from Ch. 122, par. 14-1.11a)


7    Sec. 14-1.11a. Resident district; student. The resident 
8district is the school district in which the student resides 
9when:


10        (1) the parent has legal guardianship but the location 
11    of the parent is
unknown; or


12        (2) an individual guardian has been appointed but the 
13    location of the
guardian is unknown; or


14        (3) the student is 18 years of age or older and no 
15    legal
guardian has been appointed; or


16        (4) the student is legally an emancipated minor; or


17        (5) an Illinois public agency has legal guardianship 
18    and such agency or any court in this State has
placed the 
19    student residentially outside of the school district in 
20    which the
parent lives.

21    In cases where an Illinois public agency has legal 
22guardianship and has
placed the student residentially outside 
23of Illinois, the last school
district that provided at least 
 
 
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145 days of educational service to the
student shall continue 
2to be the district of
residence until the student is no longer 
3under guardianship of an Illinois
public agency or until the 
4student is returned to Illinois.

5    The resident district of a homeless student is the 
6Illinois district in
which the student enrolls for educational 
7services.  Homeless students
include individuals as defined in 
8the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance
Act.
9    The State Superintendent of Education may determine that 
10the location of the parent or guardian of a student is unknown 
11after considering information submitted from the school 
12district that last enrolled the student or from the school or 
13special education facility providing special education and 
14related services to meet the needs of the student.  The 
15information submitted to the State Superintendent of Education 
16must include an affidavit from that school district's 
17superintendent or the facility's director attesting that the 
18location of the parent or guardian is unknown and 4 items of 
19documentary evidence that a minimum of 4 separate attempts 
20were made to locate the parent or guardian. Any determination 
21by the State Superintendent of Education that the location of 
22a parent or guardian is unknown is final. However, any 
23determination made by the State Superintendent of Education is 
24subject to review and reconsideration any time a parent's or 
25guardian's location becomes known. 

26(Source: P.A. 95-844, eff. 8-15-08.)

 
 
 
 
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1    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
2becoming law.