Full Text of SB0397 95th General Assembly
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Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
Filed: 5/16/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 397
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 397 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 5 |
| 14-13.01 and 28-21 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/14-13.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 14-13.01)
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| Sec. 14-13.01. Reimbursement payable by State; Amounts. | 8 |
| Reimbursement for furnishing special educational facilities in | 9 |
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recognized school to the type of children defined in Section | 10 |
| 14-1.02
shall be paid to the school districts in accordance | 11 |
| with Section 14-12.01
for each school year ending June 30 by | 12 |
| the State Comptroller out of any money
in the treasury | 13 |
| appropriated for such purposes on the presentation of vouchers
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| by the State Board of Education.
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| The reimbursement shall be limited to funds expended for | 16 |
| construction
and maintenance of special education facilities |
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| designed and utilized to
house instructional programs, | 2 |
| diagnostic services, other special
education services for | 3 |
| children with disabilities and
reimbursement as
provided in | 4 |
| Section 14-13.01. There shall be no reimbursement for
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| construction and maintenance of any administrative facility | 6 |
| separated
from special education facilities designed and | 7 |
| utilized to house
instructional programs, diagnostic services | 8 |
| and other special education
services for children with | 9 |
| disabilities.
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| (a) For children who have not been identified as eligible | 11 |
| for special
education and for eligible children with physical
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| disabilities, including all
eligible children whose placement | 13 |
| has been determined under Section 14-8.02 in
hospital or home | 14 |
| instruction, 1/2 of the teacher's salary but not more than
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| $1,000 annually per child or $8,000 per teacher for the | 16 |
| 1985-1986 school year
and thereafter, whichever is less. | 17 |
| Children
to be included in any reimbursement under this | 18 |
| paragraph must regularly
receive a minimum of one hour of | 19 |
| instruction each school day, or in lieu
thereof of a minimum of | 20 |
| 5 hours of instruction in each school week in
order to qualify | 21 |
| for full reimbursement under this Section. If the
attending | 22 |
| physician for such a child has certified that the child should
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| not receive as many as 5 hours of instruction in a school week, | 24 |
| however,
reimbursement under this paragraph on account of that | 25 |
| child shall be
computed proportionate to the actual hours of | 26 |
| instruction per week for
that child divided by 5.
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| (b) For children described in Section 14-1.02, 4/5 of the | 2 |
| cost of
transportation for each such child, whom the State | 3 |
| Superintendent of
Education determined in advance requires | 4 |
| special transportation service
in order to take advantage of | 5 |
| special educational facilities.
Transportation costs shall be | 6 |
| determined in the same fashion as provided
in Section 29-5. For | 7 |
| purposes of this subsection (b), the dates for
processing | 8 |
| claims specified in Section 29-5 shall apply.
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| (c) For each professional worker excluding those included | 10 |
| in
subparagraphs (a), (d), (e), and (f) of this Section, the | 11 |
| annual sum of
$8,000 for the 1985-1986 school year and | 12 |
| thereafter.
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| (d) For one full time qualified director of the special | 14 |
| education
program of each school district which maintains a | 15 |
| fully approved program
of special education the annual sum of | 16 |
| $8,000 for the 1985-1986 school
year and thereafter. Districts | 17 |
| participating in a joint agreement special
education program | 18 |
| shall not receive such reimbursement if reimbursement is made
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| for a director of the joint agreement program.
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| (e) For each school psychologist as defined in Section | 21 |
| 14-1.09 the
annual sum of $8,000 for the 1985-1986 school year | 22 |
| and thereafter.
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| (f) For each qualified teacher working in a fully approved | 24 |
| program
for children of preschool age who are deaf or | 25 |
| hard-of-hearing the annual
sum of $8,000 for the 1985-1986 | 26 |
| school year and thereafter.
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| (g) For readers, working with blind or partially seeing | 2 |
| children 1/2
of their salary but not more than $400 annually | 3 |
| per child. Readers may
be employed to assist such children and | 4 |
| shall not be required to be
certified but prior to employment | 5 |
| shall meet standards set up by the
State Board of Education.
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| (h) For necessary non-certified employees working in any | 7 |
| class or
program for children defined in this Article, 1/2 of | 8 |
| the salary paid or
$2,800 annually per employee, whichever is | 9 |
| less.
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| The State Board of Education shall set standards and | 11 |
| prescribe rules
for determining the allocation of | 12 |
| reimbursement under this section on
less than a full time basis | 13 |
| and for less than a school year.
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| When any school district eligible for reimbursement under | 15 |
| this
Section operates a school or program approved by the State
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| Superintendent of Education for a number of days in excess of | 17 |
| the
adopted school calendar but not to exceed 235 school days, | 18 |
| such
reimbursement shall be increased by 1/180
1/185 of the | 19 |
| amount or rate paid
hereunder for each day such school is | 20 |
| operated in excess of 180
185 days per
calendar year.
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| Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school | 22 |
| district receiving
a payment under this Section or under | 23 |
| Section 14-7.02, 14-7.02b, or
29-5 of this Code may classify | 24 |
| all or a portion of the funds that it receives
in a particular | 25 |
| fiscal year or from general State aid pursuant to Section
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| 18-8.05 of this Code as
funds received in connection with any |
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| funding program for which it is
entitled to receive funds from | 2 |
| the State in that fiscal year (including,
without limitation, | 3 |
| any funding program referenced in this Section),
regardless of | 4 |
| the source or timing of the receipt. The district may not
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| classify more funds as funds received in connection with the | 6 |
| funding
program than the district is entitled to receive in | 7 |
| that fiscal year for that
program. Any
classification by a | 8 |
| district must be made by a resolution of its board of
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| education. The resolution must identify the amount of any | 10 |
| payments or
general State aid to be classified under this | 11 |
| paragraph and must specify
the funding program to which the | 12 |
| funds are to be treated as received in
connection therewith. | 13 |
| This resolution is controlling as to the
classification of | 14 |
| funds referenced therein. A certified copy of the
resolution | 15 |
| must be sent to the State Superintendent of Education.
The | 16 |
| resolution shall still take effect even though a copy of the | 17 |
| resolution has
not been sent to the State
Superintendent of | 18 |
| Education in a timely manner.
No
classification under this | 19 |
| paragraph by a district shall affect the total amount
or timing | 20 |
| of money the district is entitled to receive under this Code.
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| No classification under this paragraph by a district shall
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| any way relieve the district from or affect any
requirements | 23 |
| that otherwise would apply with respect to
that funding | 24 |
| program, including any
accounting of funds by source, reporting | 25 |
| expenditures by
original source and purpose,
reporting | 26 |
| requirements,
or requirements of providing services.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-568, eff. 6-26-02; 93-1022, eff. 8-24-04.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/28-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 28-21)
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| Sec. 28-21. The State Board of Education shall require each | 4 |
| publisher
of any printed textbook that is listed for use by the | 5 |
| State Board of Education under
this Article or that is | 6 |
| furnished at public expense under Sections 28-14
through 28-19 | 7 |
| and is first published after July 19, 2006
or that is provided | 8 |
| by loan free of charge to any student
under Section 18-17 to | 9 |
| furnish, as provided in this Section , an accessible electronic | 10 |
| file set of contracted print material to the National | 11 |
| Instructional Materials Access Center, which shall then be | 12 |
| available to the State Board of Education or its authorized | 13 |
| user for the purpose of conversion to an accessible format for | 14 |
| use by a child with a print disability and for distribution to | 15 |
| local education agencies. An "accessible electronic file" | 16 |
| means a file that conforms to specifications of the national | 17 |
| file format adopted by the United States Department of | 18 |
| Education. Other terms used in this Section shall be construed | 19 |
| in compliance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities | 20 |
| Education Act and related regulations. : (i) computer
diskettes | 21 |
| for literary subjects in the American Standard Code for
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| Information Interchange (ASCII) from which Braille versions of | 23 |
| the textbook
can be produced, and (ii) a copy of the textbook | 24 |
| for those literary
subjects with copyright permission to | 25 |
| duplicate into Braille, large print,
or tape. The copy of the |
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| textbook with copyright permission shall be
furnished by the | 2 |
| publisher to the State Board of Education within 15 days
after | 3 |
| the publisher receives the request of the State Board of | 4 |
| Education
for that material. The computer diskettes for | 5 |
| literary subjects in ASCII
from which Braille versions of the | 6 |
| textbook can be produced shall be
furnished by the publisher to | 7 |
| the State Board of Education or its designee
or designees, for | 8 |
| those students identified as Braille readers, within 90
days | 9 |
| after the publisher receives the request of the State Board of
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| Education for those computer diskettes. Each publisher
of any | 11 |
| such
textbook shall also be required to furnish to the State | 12 |
| Board of Education
or its designee or designees, for those | 13 |
| students identified as Braille
readers, computer diskettes in | 14 |
| ASCII for nonliterary subjects,
including natural sciences, | 15 |
| computer science, mathematics, and music, when
Braille | 16 |
| specialty code translation software is available.
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| (Source: P.A. 87-1071.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 19 |
| 2007.".
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