Rep. Karen May

Filed: 2/28/2012

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4010

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4010 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
53-2.5 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/3-2.5)
7    Sec. 3-2.5. Salaries.
8    (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the
9regional superintendents of schools shall receive for their
10services an annual salary according to the population, as
11determined by the last preceding federal census, of the region
12they serve, as set out in the following schedule:
13SALARIES OF REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF
14SCHOOLS
15    POPULATION OF REGION                 ANNUAL SALARY
16    Less than 48,000                     $73,500

 

 

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1    48,000 to 99,999                     $78,000
2    100,000 to 999,999                   $81,500
3    1,000,000 and over                   $83,500
4    The changes made by Public Act 86-98 in the annual salary
5that the regional superintendents of schools shall receive for
6their services shall apply to the annual salary received by the
7regional superintendents of schools during each of their
8elected terms of office that commence after July 26, 1989 and
9before the first Monday of August, 1995.
10    The changes made by Public Act 89-225 in the annual salary
11that regional superintendents of schools shall receive for
12their services shall apply to the annual salary received by the
13regional superintendents of schools during their elected terms
14of office that commence after August 4, 1995 and end on August
151, 1999.
16    The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 91st General
17Assembly in the annual salary that the regional superintendents
18of schools shall receive for their services shall apply to the
19annual salary received by the regional superintendents of
20schools during each of their elected terms of office that
21commence on or after August 2, 1999.
22    Beginning July 1, 2000, the salary that the regional
23superintendent of schools receives for his or her services
24shall be adjusted annually to reflect the percentage increase,
25if any, in the most recent Consumer Price Index, as defined and
26officially reported by the United States Department of Labor,

 

 

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1Bureau of Labor Statistics, except that no annual increment may
2exceed 2.9%. If the percentage of change in the Consumer Price
3Index is a percentage decrease, the salary that the regional
4superintendent of schools receives shall not be adjusted for
5that year.
6    When regional superintendents are authorized by the School
7Code to appoint assistant regional superintendents, the
8assistant regional superintendent shall receive an annual
9salary based on his or her qualifications and computed as a
10percentage of the salary of the regional superintendent to whom
11he or she is assistant, as set out in the following schedule:
12SALARIES OF ASSISTANT REGIONAL
13SUPERINTENDENTS
14    QUALIFICATIONS OF                    PERCENTAGE OF SALARY
15    ASSISTANT REGIONAL                   OF REGIONAL
16    SUPERINTENDENT                       SUPERINTENDENT
17    No Bachelor's degree, but State
18    certificate valid for teaching
19    and supervising.                     70%    
20    Bachelor's degree plus
21    State certificate valid
22    for supervising.                     75%    
23    Master's degree plus
24    State certificate valid
25    for supervising.                     90%    
26    However, in any region in which the appointment of more

 

 

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1than one assistant regional superintendent is authorized,
2whether by Section 3-15.10 of this Code or otherwise, not more
3than one assistant may be compensated at the 90% rate and any
4other assistant shall be paid at not exceeding the 75% rate, in
5each case depending on the qualifications of the assistant.
6    The salaries provided in this Section plus an amount for
7other employment-related compensation or benefits for regional
8superintendents and assistant regional superintendents are
9payable monthly by the State Board of Education out of the
10Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund through a specific
11appropriation to that effect in the State Board of Education
12budget for the fiscal year 2012 only, and are payable monthly
13from the Common School Fund for fiscal year 2013 and beyond
14through a specific appropriation to that effect in the State
15Board of Education budget. The State Comptroller in making his
16or her warrant to any county for the amount due it from the
17Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund for the fiscal year 2012
18only, and from the Common School Fund for fiscal year 2013 and
19beyond shall deduct from it the several amounts for which
20warrants have been issued to the regional superintendent, and
21any assistant regional superintendent, of the educational
22service region encompassing the county since the preceding
23apportionment from the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund
24for the fiscal year 2012 only, and from the Common School Fund
25for fiscal year 2013 and beyond.
26    County boards may provide for additional compensation for

 

 

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1the regional superintendent or the assistant regional
2superintendents, or for each of them, to be paid quarterly from
3the county treasury.
4    Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
5the salary of the regional superintendent of schools and any
6assistant regional superintendent of the regional office of
7education must not be enhanced for administering a grant
8program with the use of money from the grant or other funds.
9    (b) Upon abolition of the office of regional superintendent
10of schools in educational service regions containing 2,000,000
11or more inhabitants as provided in Section 3-0.01 of this Code,
12the funds provided under subsection (a) of this Section shall
13continue to be appropriated and reallocated, as provided for
14pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 3-0.01 of this Code, to
15the educational service centers established pursuant to
16Section 2-3.62 of this Code for an educational service region
17containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants.
18    (c) If the State pays all or any portion of the employee
19contributions required under Section 16-152 of the Illinois
20Pension Code for employees of the State Board of Education, it
21shall also, subject to appropriation in the State Board of
22Education budget for such payments to Regional Superintendents
23and Assistant Regional Superintendents, pay the employee
24contributions required of regional superintendents of schools
25and assistant regional superintendents of schools on the same
26basis, but excluding any contributions based on compensation

 

 

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1that is paid by the county rather than the State.
2    This subsection (c) applies to contributions based on
3payments of salary earned after the effective date of this
4amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, except that in the
5case of an elected regional superintendent of schools, this
6subsection does not apply to contributions based on payments of
7salary earned during a term of office that commenced before the
8effective date of this amendatory Act.
9(Source: P.A. 96-893, eff. 7-1-10; 96-1086, eff. 7-16-10;
1097-333, eff. 8-12-11; 97-619, eff. 11-14-11.)
 
11    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12becoming law.".