Rep. Sidney H. Mathias
Filed: 3/18/2010
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5634
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5634 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 | 3-14.21 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/3-14.21) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-14.21) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 3-14.21. Inspection of schools. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) The regional superintendent shall inspect and survey | ||||||
| 9 | all
public
schools under his or her supervision and notify the | ||||||
| 10 | board of education, or the
trustees of schools in a district | ||||||
| 11 | with trustees, in writing before July 30,
whether or not the | ||||||
| 12 | several schools in their district have been kept as required
by | ||||||
| 13 | law, using forms provided by the State Board of Education which | ||||||
| 14 | are based on
the Health/Life Safety Code for Public Schools | ||||||
| 15 | adopted under Section 2-3.12. The regional
superintendent | ||||||
| 16 | shall report his or her findings to the State Board of
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| 1 | Education on
forms provided by the State Board of Education. | ||||||
| 2 | (b) If the regional superintendent determines that a school | ||||||
| 3 | board has
failed in a timely manner to correct urgent items | ||||||
| 4 | identified in a previous
life-safety report completed under | ||||||
| 5 | Section 2-3.12 or as otherwise previously
ordered by the | ||||||
| 6 | regional superintendent, the regional superintendent shall | ||||||
| 7 | order
the school board to adopt and submit to the regional | ||||||
| 8 | superintendent a plan for
the immediate correction of the | ||||||
| 9 | building violations. This plan shall be
adopted following a | ||||||
| 10 | public hearing that is conducted by the school board on the
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| 11 | violations and the plan and that is preceded by at least 7 | ||||||
| 12 | days' prior notice
of the hearing published in
a newspaper of | ||||||
| 13 | general circulation within the school district. If the regional
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| 14 | superintendent determines in the next annual inspection that | ||||||
| 15 | the plan has not
been completed and that the violations have | ||||||
| 16 | not been corrected, the regional
superintendent shall submit a | ||||||
| 17 | report to the State Board of Education with a
recommendation | ||||||
| 18 | that the State Board withhold from payments of general State | ||||||
| 19 | aid
due to the district an amount necessary to correct the | ||||||
| 20 | outstanding violations.
The State Board, upon notice to the | ||||||
| 21 | school board
and to the regional superintendent, shall consider | ||||||
| 22 | the report at a meeting of
the State Board, and may order that | ||||||
| 23 | a sufficient amount of general State aid be
withheld from | ||||||
| 24 | payments due to the district to correct the violations. This
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| 25 | amount shall be paid to the regional superintendent who shall | ||||||
| 26 | contract on
behalf of the school board for the correction of | ||||||
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| 1 | the outstanding violations. | ||||||
| 2 | (c) The Office of the State Fire Marshal or a qualified | ||||||
| 3 | fire official, as defined in Section 2-3.12 of this Code, to | ||||||
| 4 | whom the State Fire Marshal has delegated his or her authority | ||||||
| 5 | shall conduct a an annual fire safety inspection of each school | ||||||
| 6 | building in this State in consultation with the State Board of | ||||||
| 7 | Education. The State Fire Marshal or the fire official shall | ||||||
| 8 | coordinate its inspections with the regional superintendent. | ||||||
| 9 | The inspection shall be based on the fire safety code | ||||||
| 10 | authorized in Section 2-3.12 of this Code. Any violations shall | ||||||
| 11 | be reported in writing to the regional superintendent and shall | ||||||
| 12 | reference the specific code sections where a discrepancy has | ||||||
| 13 | been identified within 15 days after the inspection has been | ||||||
| 14 | conducted. The regional superintendent shall address those | ||||||
| 15 | violations that are not corrected in a timely manner pursuant | ||||||
| 16 | to subsection (b) of this Section. The inspection must be at no | ||||||
| 17 | cost to the school district.
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| 18 | (d) If a municipality or, in the case of an unincorporated | ||||||
| 19 | area, a county or, if applicable, a fire protection district | ||||||
| 20 | wishes to perform new construction inspections under the | ||||||
| 21 | jurisdiction of a regional superintendent, then the entity must | ||||||
| 22 | register this wish with the regional superintendent. These | ||||||
| 23 | inspections must be based on the building code authorized in | ||||||
| 24 | Section 2-3.12 of this Code. The inspections must be at no cost | ||||||
| 25 | to the school district.
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| 26 | (Source: P.A. 96-734, eff. 8-25-09.)
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| 1 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 2 | becoming law.".
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