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Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
Filed: 3/24/2016
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5024
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5024 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 | | 3-1 as follows:
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6 | | (105 ILCS 5/3-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-1)
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7 | | Sec. 3-1. Election; eligibility. Quadrennially there shall |
8 | | be
elected in every county, except those which have been |
9 | | consolidated into
a multicounty educational service region |
10 | | under Article 3A and except
those having a population of |
11 | | 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, a regional
superintendent of |
12 | | schools, who shall enter
upon the discharge of his duties on |
13 | | the first Monday of August next after
his election; provided, |
14 | | however, that the term of office of each regional
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15 | | superintendent of schools in office on June 30, 2003
is |
16 | | terminated on
July 1, 2003, except that an incumbent regional
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1 | | superintendent of schools
shall continue to serve until his |
2 | | successor is elected and qualified, and each
regional |
3 | | superintendent of schools elected at the general election in |
4 | | 2002 and
every four years thereafter shall assume office on the |
5 | | first day of July
next after his election. No one is eligible |
6 | | to file his or her petition at any
primary election for the |
7 | | nomination
as candidate for the office of regional |
8 | | superintendent of schools nor to
enter upon the duties of such |
9 | | office either by election or appointment
unless he or she |
10 | | possesses the following qualifications: |
11 | | (1) he or she is of good
character ; , |
12 | | (2) he or she has a master's degree in education; , |
13 | | (3) he has earned at least 20
semester hours of credit |
14 | | in professional education at the graduate
level, |
15 | | (3) he or she has had at least
4 years of experience in |
16 | | teaching at any grade level, kindergarten through the |
17 | | university graduate level; and |
18 | | (4) he or she holds a valid all grade supervisory |
19 | | license, a valid
State limited supervisory license, a valid |
20 | | state life supervisory
license, or a valid administrative |
21 | | license ; or he or she will have on staff an assistant |
22 | | regional superintendent of schools who meets the |
23 | | requirements of Section 3-15.10 of this Code, as signed by |
24 | | an affidavit filed with the State Board of Education, and |
25 | | has been employed with the regional office of education for |
26 | | which he or she is seeking to serve as regional |
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1 | | superintendent of schools for a minimum of 5 years in an |
2 | | administrative capacity . , |
3 | | (5) he has had at least
4 years experience in teaching, |
4 | | and |
5 | | (6) he was engaged for at least 2 years
of the 4 |
6 | | previous years in full time teaching or supervising in the |
7 | | common
public schools or serving as a county superintendent |
8 | | of schools or regional
superintendent of schools for an |
9 | | educational service region in the State of
Illinois.
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10 | | No petition of any candidate for nomination for the office |
11 | | of regional
superintendent of schools may be filed and no such |
12 | | candidate's name may be
placed on a primary or general election |
13 | | ballot, unless such candidate files
as part of his petition a |
14 | | certificate from the State Board of Education
certifying that |
15 | | from the records of its office such candidate has the
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16 | | qualifications required by this Section; however, any |
17 | | incumbent filing his
petition for nomination for a succeeding |
18 | | term of office shall not be
required to attach such certificate |
19 | | to his petition of candidacy.
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20 | | Nomination papers filed under this Section are not valid |
21 | | unless the
candidate named therein files with the county clerk |
22 | | or State Board of
Elections a statement of economic interests |
23 | | as required by the Illinois
Governmental Ethics Act. Such |
24 | | receipt shall be so filed either previously
during the calendar |
25 | | year in which his nomination papers were filed or
within the |
26 | | period for the filing of nomination papers in accordance with
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1 | | the general election law.
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2 | | The changes in qualifications made by Public Act 76-1563 do |
3 | | not affect
the right of an incumbent to seek reelection. The |
4 | | changes in qualifications made by this amendatory Act of the |
5 | | 99th General Assembly do not affect the right of an incumbent |
6 | | to serve the remainder of his or her term.
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7 | | On and after July 1, 1994, the provisions of this Section |
8 | | shall have
no application in any educational service region |
9 | | having a population of
2,000,000 or more inhabitants; provided |
10 | | further that no election shall be
held in November of 1994 or |
11 | | at any other time after July 1, 1992 for the office
of regional |
12 | | superintendent of schools in any county or educational service
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13 | | region having a population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants.
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14 | | (Source: P.A. 99-30, eff. 7-10-15.)
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15 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
16 | | becoming law.".
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