Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
Filed: 2/17/2010
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4711
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4711 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section | ||||||
| 5 | 22-60 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/22-60 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 22-60. Unfunded mandates prohibited. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) No public school district or private school is | ||||||
| 9 | obligated to comply with any statutory or regulatory mandate or | ||||||
| 10 | requirement unless a separate appropriation has been enacted | ||||||
| 11 | into law providing funding for the school year during which | ||||||
| 12 | such mandate is required. | ||||||
| 13 | (b) If the amount appropriated to fund a statutory or | ||||||
| 14 | regulatory mandate or requirement is insufficient to fully fund | ||||||
| 15 | the mandated activity, then the school district or private | ||||||
| 16 | school may choose to discontinue or modify the mandated | ||||||
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| 1 | activity to ensure that the costs of compliance do not exceed | ||||||
| 2 | the funding received. Official action by the school board of a | ||||||
| 3 | school district or governing entity of a private school must | ||||||
| 4 | take place before the school district or private school may | ||||||
| 5 | discontinue or modify a mandated activity due to insufficient | ||||||
| 6 | funding from the State. If a school district or private school | ||||||
| 7 | discontinues or modifies a mandated activity due to | ||||||
| 8 | insufficient funding from the State, then the school district | ||||||
| 9 | or private school shall maintain a list of discontinued or | ||||||
| 10 | modified mandated activities. The list shall be provided to the | ||||||
| 11 | State Board of Education upon request. | ||||||
| 12 | (c) This Section does not apply to special education, | ||||||
| 13 | transportation, lunch programs, coursework required for high | ||||||
| 14 | school graduation, the health/life safety code, driver | ||||||
| 15 | education, curricula associated with Illinois learning | ||||||
| 16 | standards and State assessments, teacher certification | ||||||
| 17 | requirements, programs impacted by federal funding, laws | ||||||
| 18 | related to teacher tenure, evaluation, dismissal, or reduction | ||||||
| 19 | in force, locally negotiated contracts, and bilingual | ||||||
| 20 | education.
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| 21 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 22 | becoming law.".
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