SB2578 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB2578

Introduced 2/25/2025, by Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr.

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois State Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, as follows:

General Funds $11,192,940,000
Other State Funds $94,075,900
Federal Funds $4,581,352,000
Total $15,868,367,900

AN ACT concerning appropriations.

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

ARTICLE 1

Section 5. The amount of $27,590,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education to meet its operational expenses for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025.

Section 10. The following amounts, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated to the Illinois State Board of Education for Evidence-Based Funding, provided for in Section 18-8.15 of the School Code: Payable from the Education Assistance Fund........566,589,400 Payable from the Common School Fund.............3,213,015,600 Payable from the General Revenue Fund...........4,084,497,600 Payable from the Fund for the Advancement

of Education...................................1,115,136,400 Total $8,979,239,000

Section 15. The following amounts, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which shall be used by the Illinois State Board of Education exclusively for the foregoing purposes and not, under any circumstances, for personal services expenditures or other operational or administrative costs, are appropriated to the Illinois State Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025: From the General Revenue Fund: For a grant to Learning Ally for services for

Blind/Dyslexic Persons.............................846,000 For Disabled Student Transportation

Reimbursement..................................467,366,100 For Disabled Student Tuition, Public and

Private Tuition, including prior years' costs..202,732,400 For District Consolidation Costs/

Supplemental Payments to School Districts..........416,000 For a grant to Illinois State University for Autism

Training & Technical Assistance....................100,000 For the Philip J. Rock Center

and School.......................................5,000,000 For Reimbursement for the Free Breakfast/

Lunch Program....................................9,000,000 For Tax-Equivalent Grants, Section 18-4.4

of the School Code.................................275,000 For Transportation-Regular/Vocational

Common School Transportation

Reimbursement, Section 29-5 of the School Code...........0 For a grant to Chicago Lighthouse for Visually

Impaired/Educational Materials Coordinating Unit,

Section 14-11.01 of the School Code..............1,421,100 For Regular Education Reimbursement

Per Section 18-3 of the School Code,

including prior years' costs....................15,668,300 For Special Education Reimbursement

Per Section 14-7.03 of the School Code,

including prior years' costs...................131,812,100 For all costs associated with Alternative

Education/Regional Safe Schools.................20,000,000 For Truants' Alternative and Optional

Education Program...............................11,500,000 For a grant to Teach for America for the Teach for

America Program..................................2,000,000 For Career and Technical Education...............59,300,000 For a grant to Illinois State University

for its National Board Resource Center

for National Board Certified Teachers............4,500,000 From the Education Assistance Fund: For Transportation-Regular/Vocational Common School

Transportation Reimbursement,

Section 29-5 of the School Code................342,000,000 For Disabled Student Tuition, Public and Private Tuition,

including prior years' costs.............................0 For Disabled Student Transportation Reimbursement.........0 Total $1,273,937,000

Section 20. The amount of $7,850,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for Agriculture Education Programs, and not, under any circumstances, for personal services expenditures or other operational or administrative costs, at the approximate costs below: For Agriculture Education Programs................6,395,000 For Champaign Ford Regional Office

of Education #9 for Facilitating Collaboration

for Agricultural Education Local Program support.1,260,000 For Growing Agriculture Science Teachers,

at the approximate costs below:

Southern Illinois University.......................30,000

University of Illinois.............................30,000

Illinois State University..........................30,000

Western Illinois University........................30,000

Highland Community College District 519............12,500

Lake Land Community College District 517...........12,500

Sauk Valley Community College District 506.........12,500

Black Hawk Community College District 503..........12,500

Illinois Central Community College

District 514......................................12,500

Joliet Community College District 525..............12,500

Section 25. The following amounts, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated to the Illinois State Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025: From the General Revenue Fund: For State and District Technology Support.........2,443,800 For Advanced Placement Classes......................500,000 For Principal Recruitment Program.................1,800,000 For Low-Income Advanced Placement Fee.............2,500,000 For After School Matters..........................6,000,000 For After-School Programming.....................25,000,000 For the Southwest Organizing Project Parent

Mentoring Program...............................14,000,000 For all costs associated with the Student Care

Department.......................................2,000,000 For all costs associated with the Summer

Electronic Benefit Transfer program for Children,

including administrative costs.....................350,000 For Grant Accountability and Transparency Act and

Budgeting for Results Initiatives..................380,000 Total $54,973,800

Section 30. The amount of $748,138,100, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for Early Childhood Education.

Section 35. The amount of $850,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for all costs associated with the Community and Residential Services Authority.

Section 40. The amount of $40,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for Student Assessments, including Bilingual Assessments.

Section 45. The amount of $615,100, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for all costs associated with Educator Misconduct Hearings and Investigations.

Section 50. The amount of $500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for all costs authorized by the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code, including refunds.

Section 55. The amount of $3,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for all costs associated with Computer Science Equity Program.

Section 60. The amount of $3,347,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for deposit into The Imagination Library of Illinois Fund for grants associated with the Imagination Library of Illinois Grant Program.

Section 65. The amount of $45,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for grants, contracts, and administrative expenses for costs associated with Teacher Vacancy Pilot Program.

Section 70. The amount of $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for support of the P-20 Council.

Section 75. The amount of $3,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for grants, contracts, and administrative expenses associated with implementation of the Illinois Comprehensive Literacy Plan and a state numeracy plan.

Section 80. The amount of $3,500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for all costs associated with the Social-Emotional Learning Hubs and the Resilience Education to Advance Community Healing program, including continued development and expansion of Resilience-Supportive Schools Illinois, at the approximate costs below: For a grant to the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's

Hospital of Chicago Center for Childhood Resilience

for the Resilience Education to Advance Community

Healing program, including continued development

and expansion of Resilience-Supportive

Schools Illinois.................................1,000,000 For Regional Office of Education #1.................357,143 For Regional Office of Education #4.................357,143 For Regional Office of Education #19................357,143 For Regional Office of Education #21................357,143 For Regional Office of Education #39................357,143 For Regional Office of Education #40................357,143 For City of Chicago School District 299.............357,143

Section 85. The amount of $1,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for a grant to Teach Plus Illinois for the Affinity Groups program.

Section 90. The amount of $250,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for a grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago to maintain and update the Children's Adversity Index pursuant to Section 2-3.196 of the School Code and to provide comprehensive technical assistance to ISBE to prepare for required updates.

ARTICLE 2

Section 5. The amount of $6,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the Teacher Certificate Fee Revolving Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for all costs authorized by the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code, including refunds.

Section 10. The amount of $10,000,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the State Board of Education Special Purpose Trust Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for expenditures by the Board in accordance with grants, gifts, royalty payments, or donations that the Board has received or may receive from any source, public or private, in support of projects that are within the lawful powers of the Board, including refunds.

Section 15. The amount of $10,000,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the State Board of Education Special Purpose Trust Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for its ordinary and contingent expenses.

Section 20. The amount of $1,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the School District Emergency Financial Assistance Fund for use by the Illinois State Board of Education as provided in Section 1B-8 of the School Code.

Section 25. The amount of $2,208,900, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the ISBE Teacher Certificate Institute Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for costs authorized by the School Code, including refunds.

Section 30. The amount of $200,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the After-School Rescue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for its ordinary and contingent expenses.

Section 35. The amount of $600,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the School Infrastructure Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for its ordinary and contingent expenses.

Section 40. The amount of $1,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the Temporary Relocation Expenses Revolving Grant Fund for use by the Illinois State Board of Education as provided in Section 2-3.77 of the School Code.

Section 45. The amount of $1,050,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the State Board of Education Special Purpose Trust Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for all costs associated with its Charter School Department, per 105 ILCS 5/27A-7.5.

Section 50. The amount of $13,500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, for Regional Superintendents' and Assistants' Compensation and Related Benefits.

Section 55. The following amounts, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated from the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025: For Bus Driver Training.............................150,000 For Regional Superintendents' Services...........18,970,000

Total $19,120,000

Section 60. The following amounts, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which shall be used by the Illinois State Board of Education exclusively for the foregoing purposes and not, under any circumstances, for personal services expenditures or other operational or administrative costs, are appropriated to the Illinois State Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025: From the Drivers Education Fund: For Driver Education.............................14,000,000 From the Charter Schools Revolving Loan Fund: For Charter Schools Loans...........................200,000 From the School Technology Revolving Loan Fund: For School Technology Loans, Section 2-3.117a

of the School Code...............................7,500,000

Total $21,700,000

Section 65. The amount of $1,850,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the State Board of Education Special Purpose Trust Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for Grant Accountability and Transparency Act and Budgeting for Results Initiatives.

Section 70. The amount of $2,500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the School STEAM Grant Program Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for the School STEAM Grant Program.

Section 75. The amount of $3,347,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the Imagination Library of Illinois Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for a grant to the Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Illinois Foundation for all costs associated with the Imagination Library of Illinois Grant Program.

ARTICLE 3

Section 5. The amount of $19,904,700, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal Department of Agriculture Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for its ordinary and contingent expenses.

Section 10. The amount of $2,900,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal Agency Services Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for its ordinary and contingent expenses.

Section 15. The amount of $50,869,800, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for its ordinary and contingent expenses.

Section 20. The following amounts, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated to the Illinois State Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025: From the SBE Federal Department of Agriculture Fund: For Child Nutrition...........................1,250,000,000 From the SBE Federal Department of Education Fund: For Title I...................................1,350,000,000 For Title III....................................56,000,000 For Title IV....................................300,000,000 For Title V.......................................3,000,000 For Title X......................................10,000,000 For Individuals with Disabilities Education Act,

Deaf/Blind for a grant to Philip J. Rock Center

and School for Project Reach.......................800,000 For Individuals with Disabilities Education Act,

Improvement Program..............................5,000,000 For Individuals with Disabilities Education Act,

Preschool.......................................41,000,000 For Grants for Vocational

Education - Basic...............................70,000,000 For Student Assessments..........................35,000,000 For Institute of Education Sciences Grant.........3,500,000 For Mental Health Service Professional

Demonstration Grant..............................3,600,000 For School-Based Mental Health Services...........7,500,000

Total $3,135,400,000

Section 25. The amount of $160,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for Title II, at the approximate costs below: For Title II....................................157,700,000 For a grant to or contract with the

Illinois Principals Association in support of

the Ed Leaders Network platform..................1,500,000 For a grant to or contract with the Illinois

Association of School Administrators for providing

scholarships, support, and mentoring services to

superintendents and aspiring superintendents.......650,000 For grants or contracts for new principal

mentoring, at the approximate costs below:

Illinois Principals Association.....................75,000

Regional Office of Education #19....................37,500

Chicago Public Schools, District 299................37,500

Section 30. The amount of $980,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA, at the approximate costs below: For Individuals with Disabilities

Education Act, IDEA............................974,769,577 For a grant to Illinois State University

for the Autism Learning and Supports Project.....1,239,899 For a grant to the University of Illinois

for the Center for Transition....................1,000,000 For a grant to the Illinois Deaf and Hard of

Hearing Commission for the Illinois Deaf and

Hard of Hearing Program.............................80,000 For a grant to United Cerebral Palsy - Seguin

for the Assistive Technology Exchange Network......450,000 For a grant to United Cerebral Palsy -

Seguin for Assistive Technology Training

and Technical Assistance...........................300,000 For a grant to Illinois Assistive Technology

Program for the Assistive Technology Device and

Loan Program.....................................1,510,524 For a grant to Northwest Special Education

Organization for the Illinois Service

Resource Center....................................650,000

Section 35. The following amounts, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated to the Illinois State Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025:

From SBE Federal Agency Services Fund: For Adolescent Health Programs......................500,000 For STOP School Violence and Mental Health

Programs.........................................1,000,000 For Preschool Development Grant Birth

Through Five....................................35,000,000

Total $36,500,000

Section 40. The amount of $6,500,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal Agency Services Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, at the approximate costs below: For Substance Abuse and Mental

Health Services..................................4,736,733 For Mental health services and supports,

at the approximate costs below:

Regional Office of Education 40...................533,000

Intermediate Service Center #2..................1,200,989

Illinois Department of Human Services..............29,278

Section 45. The amount of $164,860,500, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for grants, contracts, and administrative expenses of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund per the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

Section 50. The amount of $4,417,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for grants, contracts, and administrative expenses for Homeless Children and Youth per the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

Section 55. The amount of $20,000,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal Agency Services Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for grants, contracts, and administrative expenses of the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles grant program.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2025.