Rep. Roger L. Eddy

Filed: 5/19/2011

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3108

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3108 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
51D-1 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/1D-1)
7    Sec. 1D-1. Block grant funding.
8    (a) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter,
9the State Board of Education shall award to a school district
10having a population exceeding 500,000 inhabitants a general
11education block grant and an educational services block grant,
12determined as provided in this Section, in lieu of distributing
13to the district separate State funding for the programs
14described in subsections (b) and (c). The provisions of this
15Section, however, do not apply to any federal funds that the
16district is entitled to receive. In accordance with Section

 

 

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12-3.32, all block grants are subject to an audit. Therefore,
2block grant receipts and block grant expenditures shall be
3recorded to the appropriate fund code for the designated block
4grant.
5    (b) The general education block grant shall include the
6following programs: REI Initiative, Summer Bridges, Preschool
7At Risk, K-6 Comprehensive Arts, School Improvement Support,
8Urban Education, Scientific Literacy, Substance Abuse
9Prevention, Second Language Planning, Staff Development,
10Outcomes and Assessment, K-6 Reading Improvement, 7-12
11Continued Reading Improvement, Truants' Optional Education,
12Hispanic Programs, Agriculture Education, Parental Education,
13Prevention Initiative, Report Cards, and Criminal Background
14Investigations. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
15all amounts paid under the general education block grant from
16State appropriations to a school district in a city having a
17population exceeding 500,000 inhabitants shall be appropriated
18and expended by the board of that district for any of the
19programs included in the block grant or any of the board's
20lawful purposes.
21    (c) The educational services block grant shall include the
22following programs: Bilingual, Regular and Vocational
23Transportation, State Lunch and Free Breakfast Program,
24Special Education (Personnel, Transportation, Orphanage,
25Private Tuition), funding for children requiring special
26education services, Summer School, Educational Service

 

 

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1Centers, and Administrator's Academy. This subsection (c) does
2not relieve the district of its obligation to provide the
3services required under a program that is included within the
4educational services block grant. It is the intention of the
5General Assembly in enacting the provisions of this subsection
6(c) to relieve the district of the administrative burdens that
7impede efficiency and accompany single-program funding. The
8General Assembly encourages the board to pursue mandate waivers
9pursuant to Section 2-3.25g.
10    The funding program included in the educational services
11block grant for funding for children requiring special
12education services in each fiscal year shall be treated in that
13fiscal year as a payment to the school district in respect of
14services provided or costs incurred in the prior fiscal year,
15calculated in each case as provided in this Section. Nothing in
16this Section shall change the nature of payments for any
17program that, apart from this Section, would be or, prior to
18adoption or amendment of this Section, was on the basis of a
19payment in a fiscal year in respect of services provided or
20costs incurred in the prior fiscal year, calculated in each
21case as provided in this Section.
22    (d) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter,
23the amount of the district's block grants shall be determined
24as follows: (i) with respect to each program that is included
25within each block grant, the district shall receive an amount
26equal to the same percentage of the current fiscal year

 

 

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1appropriation made for that program as the percentage of the
2appropriation received by the district from the 1995 fiscal
3year appropriation made for that program, and (ii) the total
4amount that is due the district under the block grant shall be
5the aggregate of the amounts that the district is entitled to
6receive for the fiscal year with respect to each program that
7is included within the block grant that the State Board of
8Education shall award the district under this Section for that
9fiscal year. In the case of the Summer Bridges program, the
10amount of the district's block grant shall be equal to 44% of
11the amount of the current fiscal year appropriation made for
12that program.
13    (e) The district is not required to file any application or
14other claim in order to receive the block grants to which it is
15entitled under this Section through the 2010-2011 school year.
16The State Board of Education shall make payments to the
17district of amounts due under the district's block grants on a
18schedule determined by the State Board of Education. Beginning
19with the 2011-2012 school year, the district shall submit
20application, approval data, and claim information in the same
21manner and format as all other school districts for programs
22provided in the general education and educational services
23block grant.
24    (f) A school district to which this Section applies shall
25report to the State Board of Education on its use of the block
26grants in such form and detail as the State Board of Education

 

 

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1may specify.
2    (g) This paragraph provides for the treatment of block
3grants under Article 1C for purposes of calculating the amount
4of block grants for a district under this Section. Those block
5grants under Article 1C are, for this purpose, treated as
6included in the amount of appropriation for the various
7programs set forth in paragraph (b) above. The appropriation in
8each current fiscal year for each block grant under Article 1C
9shall be treated for these purposes as appropriations for the
10individual program included in that block grant. The proportion
11of each block grant so allocated to each such program included
12in it shall be the proportion which the appropriation for that
13program was of all appropriations for such purposes now in that
14block grant, in fiscal 1995.
15    Payments to the school district under this Section with
16respect to each program for which payments to school districts
17generally, as of the date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd
18General Assembly, are on a reimbursement basis shall continue
19to be made to the district on a reimbursement basis, pursuant
20to the provisions of this Code governing those programs.
21    (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school
22district receiving a block grant under this Section may
23classify all or a portion of the funds that it receives in a
24particular fiscal year from any block grant authorized under
25this Code or from general State aid pursuant to Section 18-8.05
26of this Code (other than supplemental general State aid) as

 

 

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1funds received in connection with any funding program for which
2it is entitled to receive funds from the State in that fiscal
3year (including, without limitation, any funding program
4referred to in subsection (c) of this Section), regardless of
5the source or timing of the receipt. The district may not
6classify more funds as funds received in connection with the
7funding program than the district is entitled to receive in
8that fiscal year for that program. Any classification by a
9district must be made by a resolution of its board of
10education. The resolution must identify the amount of any block
11grant or general State aid to be classified under this
12subsection (h) and must specify the funding program to which
13the funds are to be treated as received in connection
14therewith. This resolution is controlling as to the
15classification of funds referenced therein. A certified copy of
16the resolution must be sent to the State Superintendent of
17Education. The resolution shall still take effect even though a
18copy of the resolution has not been sent to the State
19Superintendent of Education in a timely manner. No
20classification under this subsection (h) by a district shall
21affect the total amount or timing of money the district is
22entitled to receive under this Code. No classification under
23this subsection (h) by a district shall in any way relieve the
24district from or affect any requirements that otherwise would
25apply with respect to the block grant as provided in this
26Section, including any accounting of funds by source, reporting

 

 

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1expenditures by original source and purpose, reporting
2requirements, or requirements of provision of services.
3(Source: P.A. 92-568, eff. 6-26-02; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02;
493-21, eff. 7-1-03; 93-53, eff. 7-1-03; 93-1022, eff. 8-24-04.)
 
5    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
6becoming law.".