Full Text of HB1964 95th General Assembly
HB1964ham001 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
Filed: 3/14/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1964
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1964 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Childhood Hunger
Relief Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 20 as follows: | 6 |
| (105 ILCS 126/20)
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| Sec. 20. Summer food service program.
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| (a) The State Board of Education shall promulgate a State | 9 |
| plan for
summer food service programs, in accordance with 42 | 10 |
| U.S.C. Sec. 1761 and any
other
applicable federal laws and | 11 |
| regulations,
by June 1, 2007
January 15, 2006 .
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| (b) On or before April 15, 2008, a school district must | 13 |
| promulgate a plan to have a summer food service program for | 14 |
| each school in which at least 50% of the students are eligible | 15 |
| for free or reduced-price school meals. The plan must be | 16 |
| implemented during the summer of 2008. Each summer food service |
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| program must operate for a minimum of 35 consecutive days. If | 2 |
| the school district has one or more elementary schools that | 3 |
| qualify, the summer food service program must be operated | 4 |
| within 5 miles of at least one of the elementary schools and | 5 |
| within 10 miles of the other elementary schools, if any. If a | 6 |
| school is not open during the summer months, the school | 7 |
| district shall identify a not-for-profit entity that is willing | 8 |
| to sponsor a summer food service program serving school-aged | 9 |
| children in the surrounding school area and shall provide | 10 |
| assistance to the entity in documenting the number of children | 11 |
| in the area who are eligible for free or reduced-price school | 12 |
| meals. By February 15 of each year, the State Board of | 13 |
| Education shall provide to each school district a list of local | 14 |
| organizations that have filed letters of intent to participate | 15 |
| in the summer food service program so that the school board is | 16 |
| able to determine how many sites are needed to serve the | 17 |
| children and where to place each site.
By the summer of 2006 | 18 |
| and then each summer thereafter, it is strongly encouraged that | 19 |
| the board of
education of each school
district in this State in | 20 |
| which at least 50% of the students are eligible for
free or
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| reduced-price school meals operate a summer food service | 22 |
| program
or identify a non-profit or private agency to sponsor a | 23 |
| summer food service
program within the school district's | 24 |
| boundaries.
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| (c) Summer food service programs established under this | 26 |
| Section shall
may
be
supported by federal funds and commodities
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| and other available State and local resources.
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| (d) A school district shall be allowed to opt out of the
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| summer food service program requirement of this Section if it | 4 |
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determined that, due to circumstances specific to that | 5 |
| school
district, the expense reimbursement would not fully | 6 |
| cover the
costs of implementing and operating a summer food | 7 |
| service program.
The school district shall petition its | 8 |
| regional superintendent
of schools by November 15 to request to | 9 |
| be exempt from the
summer food service program requirement. The | 10 |
| petition shall
include all legitimate costs associated with | 11 |
| implementing and
operating a summer food service program, the | 12 |
| estimated
reimbursement from State and federal sources, and any | 13 |
| unique
circumstances the school district can verify that exist | 14 |
| that
would cause the implementation and operation of such a | 15 |
| program
to be cost prohibitive. | 16 |
| The regional superintendent of schools shall review the
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| petition. He or she shall convene a public hearing to hear
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| testimony from the school district and interested community
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| members. The regional superintendent shall, by December 15,
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| inform the school district of his or her decision, along with
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| the reasons why the exemption was granted or denied, in
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| writing. If the regional superintendent grants an exemption to
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| the school district, then the school district is relieved from
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| the requirement to establish and implement a summer food | 25 |
| service
program. | 26 |
| If the regional superintendent of schools does not grant an
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| exemption to the school district, then the school district
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| shall implement and operate a summer food service program in
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| accordance with this Section the summer following the current | 4 |
| school year. However, the school district or a resident of the
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| school district may appeal the decision of the regional
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| superintendent to the State Superintendent of Education. No
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| later than February 15 of each year, the State Superintendent
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| shall hear appeals on the decisions of regional superintendents
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| of schools. The State Superintendent shall make a final
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| decision at the conclusion of the hearing on the school
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| district's request for an exemption from the summer food | 12 |
| service
program requirement. If the State Superintendent | 13 |
| grants an
exemption to the school district, then the school | 14 |
| district is
relieved from the requirement to implement and | 15 |
| operate a summer food service program. If the State | 16 |
| Superintendent does not grant
an exemption to the school | 17 |
| district, then the school district
shall implement and operate | 18 |
| a summer food service program in
accordance with this Section | 19 |
| the summer following the current school year. | 20 |
| A school district may not attempt to opt out of the summer | 21 |
| food service program requirement of this Section by requesting | 22 |
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waiver under Section 2-3.25g of the School Code.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-1086, eff. 2-15-05.) | 24 |
| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 25 |
| becoming law.".
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