Full Text of HB5003 93rd General Assembly
HB5003 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 HB5003
Introduced 02/05/04, by Jay C. Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/1C-1 |
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105 ILCS 5/1D-1 |
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Amends the School Code. Makes technical changes in Sections concerning block grants.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 5 |
| 1C-1 and 1D-1 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/1C-1)
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| Sec. 1C-1. Purpose ; applicability . The purpose of this | 8 |
| Article is to permit greater
flexibility and efficiency in the | 9 |
| distribution and use of certain State funds
available to
local | 10 |
| education agencies for the improvement of the quality of | 11 |
| educational
services pursuant to locally established | 12 |
| priorities.
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| This Article does not apply to school districts having a | 14 |
| population in excess
of 500,000 inhabitants.
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| (Source: P.A. 88-555, eff. 7-27-94; 89-15, eff. 5-30-95; | 16 |
| 89-397, eff.
8-20-95; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/1D-1)
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| Sec. 1D-1. Block grant funding.
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| (a) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter, | 20 |
| the State Board
of Education shall award to a school district | 21 |
| having a population exceeding
500,000 inhabitants a general | 22 |
| education block grant and an educational services
block grant, | 23 |
| determined as provided in this Section, in lieu of distributing | 24 |
| to
the district separate State funding for the programs | 25 |
| described in subsections
(b) and (c) of this Section . The | 26 |
| provisions of this Section, however, do not apply to any
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| federal funds that the district is entitled to receive. In | 28 |
| accordance with
Section 2-3.32, all block grants are subject to | 29 |
| an audit. Therefore, block
grant receipts and block grant | 30 |
| expenditures shall be recorded to the
appropriate fund code for | 31 |
| the designated block grant.
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| (b) The general education block grant shall include the | 2 |
| following
programs: REI Initiative, Summer Bridges, Preschool | 3 |
| At Risk, K-6
Comprehensive Arts, School Improvement Support, | 4 |
| Urban Education, Scientific
Literacy, Substance Abuse | 5 |
| Prevention, Second Language Planning, Staff
Development, | 6 |
| Outcomes and Assessment, K-6 Reading Improvement, 7-12 | 7 |
| Continued
Reading Improvement, Truants'
Optional Education, | 8 |
| Hispanic Programs, Agriculture Education,
Parental Education, | 9 |
| Prevention Initiative, Report Cards, and Criminal
Background | 10 |
| Investigations. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, | 11 |
| all
amounts paid under the general education block grant from | 12 |
| State appropriations
to a school district in a city having a | 13 |
| population exceeding 500,000
inhabitants shall be appropriated | 14 |
| and expended by the board of that district
for any of the | 15 |
| programs included in the block grant or any of the board's
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| lawful purposes.
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| (c) The educational services block grant shall include the | 18 |
| following
programs: Bilingual, Regular and Vocational | 19 |
| Transportation, State Lunch and
Free Breakfast Program, | 20 |
| Special Education (Personnel,
Extraordinary, Transportation, | 21 |
| Orphanage, Private Tuition), Summer School,
Educational | 22 |
| Service Centers, and Administrator's Academy. This subsection | 23 |
| (c)
does not relieve the district of its obligation to provide | 24 |
| the services
required under a program that is included within | 25 |
| the educational services block
grant. It is the intention of | 26 |
| the General Assembly in enacting the provisions
of this | 27 |
| subsection (c) to relieve the district of the administrative | 28 |
| burdens
that impede efficiency and accompany single-program | 29 |
| funding. The General
Assembly encourages the board to pursue | 30 |
| mandate waivers pursuant to Section
2-3.25g.
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| (d) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter, | 32 |
| the amount
of the district's block grants shall be determined | 33 |
| as follows:
(i) with respect to each program that is included | 34 |
| within each block grant, the
district shall receive an amount | 35 |
| equal to the same percentage of the current
fiscal year | 36 |
| appropriation made for that program as the percentage of the
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| appropriation received by the district from the 1995 fiscal | 2 |
| year appropriation
made for that program, and
(ii) the total | 3 |
| amount that is due the district under the block grant shall be
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| the aggregate of the amounts that the district is entitled to | 5 |
| receive for the
fiscal year with respect to each program that | 6 |
| is included within the block
grant that the State Board of | 7 |
| Education shall award the district under this
Section for that | 8 |
| fiscal year. In the case of the Summer Bridges program,
the | 9 |
| amount of the district's block grant shall be equal to 44% of | 10 |
| the amount
of the current fiscal year appropriation made for | 11 |
| that program.
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| (e) The district is not required to file any application or | 13 |
| other claim in
order to receive the block grants to which it is | 14 |
| entitled under this Section.
The State Board of Education shall | 15 |
| make payments to the district of amounts due
under the | 16 |
| district's block grants on a schedule determined by the State | 17 |
| Board
of Education.
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| (f) A school district to which this Section applies shall | 19 |
| report to the
State Board of Education on its use of the block | 20 |
| grants in such form and detail
as the State Board of Education | 21 |
| may specify.
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| (g) This paragraph provides for the treatment of block | 23 |
| grants under Article
1C for purposes of calculating the amount | 24 |
| of block grants for a district under
this Section. Those block | 25 |
| grants under Article 1C are, for this
purpose, treated as | 26 |
| included in the amount of appropriation for the various
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| programs set forth in paragraph (b) above. The appropriation in | 28 |
| each current
fiscal year for each block grant under Article 1C | 29 |
| shall be treated for these
purposes as appropriations for the | 30 |
| individual program included in that block
grant. The proportion | 31 |
| of each block grant so allocated to each such program
included | 32 |
| in it shall be the proportion which the appropriation for that | 33 |
| program
was of all appropriations for such purposes now in that | 34 |
| block grant, in fiscal
1995.
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| Payments to the school district under this Section with | 36 |
| respect to each
program for which payments to school districts |
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| generally, as of the date of
this
amendatory Act of the 92nd | 2 |
| General Assembly, are on a reimbursement basis
shall continue | 3 |
| to be made to the district on a reimbursement basis, pursuant
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| to the provisions of this Code governing those programs.
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| (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school | 6 |
| district
receiving a block grant under this Section may | 7 |
| classify all or a portion of
the funds that it receives in a | 8 |
| particular fiscal year from any block grant
authorized under | 9 |
| this Code or from general State aid pursuant to Section
18-8.05 | 10 |
| of this Code (other than supplemental general State aid) as
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| funds received in connection with any funding program for which | 12 |
| it is
entitled to receive funds from the State in that fiscal | 13 |
| year (including,
without limitation, any funding program | 14 |
| referred to in subsection (c) of
this Section), regardless of | 15 |
| the source or timing of the receipt. The
district may not | 16 |
| classify more funds as funds received in connection
with the | 17 |
| funding program than the district is entitled to receive in | 18 |
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fiscal year for that program. Any classification by a | 19 |
| district must be made by
a resolution
of its board of | 20 |
| education. The resolution must identify the amount of any
block | 21 |
| grant or general State aid to be classified under this | 22 |
| subsection (h)
and must specify the funding program to which | 23 |
| the funds are to be
treated as received in connection | 24 |
| therewith. This resolution is
controlling as to the | 25 |
| classification of funds referenced therein. A certified
copy of | 26 |
| the resolution must be sent to the State Superintendent of
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| Education.
The resolution shall still take effect even though a | 28 |
| copy of the resolution
has not been sent to the State
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| Superintendent of Education in a timely manner.
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| classification under this subsection (h) by a district shall
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| affect the total amount or timing of money the district is | 32 |
| entitled to receive
under this Code.
No classification under | 33 |
| this subsection (h) by a district
shall in any way relieve the | 34 |
| district from or affect any
requirements that otherwise would | 35 |
| apply with respect to the
block grant as provided in this | 36 |
| Section, including any
accounting of funds by source, reporting |
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| expenditures by
original source and purpose,
reporting | 2 |
| requirements, or requirements of provision of
services.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-568, eff. 6-26-02; 92-651, eff.
7-11-02; | 4 |
| 93-21, eff. 7-1-03; 93-53, eff. 7-1-03; revised 9-11-03.)
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