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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 176
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 176 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 5 | 11A-2 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/11A-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 11A-2)
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| 7 | Sec. 11A-2. Organization of community unit districts; | ||||||
| 8 | territorial
requirement.
(1) Any
Any contiguous and compact | ||||||
| 9 | territory of at least $12,000,000 equalized
assessed valuation | ||||||
| 10 | and having a population of not less than 4,000 and not
more | ||||||
| 11 | than 500,000, no part of which is included within any unit | ||||||
| 12 | district, may
be organized into a community
unit school | ||||||
| 13 | district as provided in this Article; (2) the territory of 2
or | ||||||
| 14 | more entire unit school districts that are contiguous to each
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| 15 | other and the territory of which taken as a whole is compact | ||||||
| 16 | may be organized
into a community unit school district as | ||||||
| 17 | provided in this Article; or (3)
the territory of one or more | ||||||
| 18 | entire unit school districts
that are contiguous to each other | ||||||
| 19 | plus any contiguous and compact territory,
no part of which is | ||||||
| 20 | included within any unit district, and the territory of
which | ||||||
| 21 | taken as a whole is compact
may be organized into a community | ||||||
| 22 | unit school district as provided in this
Article; however, a | ||||||
| 23 | petition or petitions may be filed hereunder
proposing to | ||||||
| 24 | divide a unit school district into 2 or more parts and
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| 1 | proposing to include all of such parts in 2 or more community | ||||||
| 2 | unit districts.
As used in this Section, a unit school district | ||||||
| 3 | includes, but is not limited
to, a special charter unit school | ||||||
| 4 | district.
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| 5 | The regional superintendent shall not accept for filing | ||||||
| 6 | hereunder any
petition
which includes therein any territory | ||||||
| 7 | already included as part of the territory
described in another | ||||||
| 8 | petition filed hereunder. Hearings on a petition filed
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| 9 | hereunder shall not be commenced so long as any part of the | ||||||
| 10 | territory described
therein shall include territory described, | ||||||
| 11 | whether by amendment or otherwise,
in another petition filed | ||||||
| 12 | hereunder. A petition may be filed hereunder
which contains | ||||||
| 13 | less than the required minimum equalized assessed valuation
or | ||||||
| 14 | population requirements provided that such a petition shall not | ||||||
| 15 | be
approved by the regional superintendent and State | ||||||
| 16 | Superintendent unless it
is determined: (1) that there is a | ||||||
| 17 | compelling reason for granting the
petition; (2) that the | ||||||
| 18 | territory involved cannot currently be organized as
part of a | ||||||
| 19 | petition which meets the minimum requirements; (3) that the
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| 20 | granting of the petition will not interfere with the ultimate | ||||||
| 21 | reorganization
of the territory into a school district which | ||||||
| 22 | meets the minimum
requirements; (4) that the granting of the | ||||||
| 23 | petition is in the best
educational interests of the pupils | ||||||
| 24 | affected; and (5) that the granting of
the petition is | ||||||
| 25 | financially beneficial to the affected school districts.
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| 26 | (Source: P.A. 88-555, eff. 7-27-94.)".
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