Full Text of SB0226 96th General Assembly
SB0226ham003 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Rep. Michael K. Smith
Filed: 10/15/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 226
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 226, AS AMENDED, by | 3 |
| replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | 4 |
| following:
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| "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 6 |
| 7-04 as follows: | 7 |
| (105 ILCS 5/7-04) (from Ch. 122, par. 7-04) | 8 |
| Sec. 7-04. Districts in educational service regions of | 9 |
| 2,000,000 or more
inhabitants. | 10 |
| (a) In all proceedings under this Article to change by | 11 |
| detachment,
annexation, division, dissolution, or any | 12 |
| combination of those methods the
boundaries of any school | 13 |
| district (other than a school district organized
under Article | 14 |
| 34) located in an educational service region of 2,000,000 or
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| more inhabitants in which the regional board of school trustees | 16 |
| is
abolished as provided in subsection (a) of Section 6-2, the |
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| trustees of
schools of the township in which that school | 2 |
| district is located, as the
successor under subsection (b) of | 3 |
| Section 6-2 to the former regional board
of school trustees | 4 |
| with respect to all territory located in that school
township, | 5 |
| shall have, exercise, and perform all powers, duties, and
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| responsibilities required under this Article to be exercised | 7 |
| and performed
in those proceedings by a regional board of | 8 |
| school trustees; provided that
if any school district affected | 9 |
| by those proceedings is located in
a school township referred | 10 |
| to in subsection (b) of Section 5-1 and there
are no trustees | 11 |
| of schools acting in that township then the State Board of | 12 |
| Education school board
of any such district, as the successor | 13 |
| under subsection (b) of Section 6-2
to the former regional | 14 |
| board of school trustees with respect to the
territory | 15 |
| comprising that school district , shall have, exercise, and
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| perform all powers, duties, and responsibilities required | 17 |
| under this
Article to be exercised and performed in those | 18 |
| proceedings with respect to
the territory of that school | 19 |
| district by a regional board of school
trustees; and provided | 20 |
| further that: (i) when any school district affected
by those | 21 |
| proceedings is located not only in an educational service | 22 |
| region
of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants but also in 2 or more | 23 |
| school townships in
that region that each have trustees of | 24 |
| schools of the township, then the
boundaries of that school | 25 |
| district may be changed under this Article by
detachment, | 26 |
| annexation, division, dissolution, or any combination of those
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| methods only by the concurrent action of, taken following a | 2 |
| joint hearing
before the trustees of schools of those townships | 3 |
| (in that educational
service region) in which that school | 4 |
| district is located; and (ii) if any
part of the school | 5 |
| district referred to in item (i) of this subsection
also lies | 6 |
| within an educational service region that has a regional board | 7 |
| of
school trustees, the boundaries of that district may be | 8 |
| changed under this
Article only by the concurrent action of, | 9 |
| taken following a joint hearing
before the trustees of schools | 10 |
| of the townships referred to in item (i) of
this subsection and | 11 |
| the regional board of school trustees of the educational
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| service region referred to in this item (ii) of this | 13 |
| subsection. Whenever
concurrent action and joint hearings are | 14 |
| required under this subsection,
the original petition shall be | 15 |
| filed with the trustees of schools of the
township in which the | 16 |
| territory or greatest portion of the territory being
detached | 17 |
| is located, or if the territory is being detached from more | 18 |
| than
one educational service region then with the regional | 19 |
| board of school
trustees of the region or the trustees of | 20 |
| schools of the township in which
the territory or greatest | 21 |
| portion of the territory being detached is located. | 22 |
| (b) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, all other | 23 |
| provisions
of this Article shall apply to any proceedings under | 24 |
| this Article to change
the boundaries of any school district | 25 |
| located in an educational service
region having 2,000,000 or | 26 |
| more inhabitants in the same manner that those
provisions apply |
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| to any proceedings to change the boundaries of any school
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| district located in any other educational service region; | 3 |
| provided, that any
reference in those other provisions to the | 4 |
| regional board of school trustees
shall mean, with respect to | 5 |
| all territory within an educational service region
containing | 6 |
| 2,000,000 or more inhabitants that formerly was served by a | 7 |
| regional
board of school trustees abolished under subsection | 8 |
| (a) of Section 6-2, the
trustees of schools of the township or | 9 |
| the school board of the school district
that is the successor | 10 |
| under subsection (b) of Section 6-2 to the former
regional | 11 |
| board of school trustees with respect to the territory included | 12 |
| within
that school township or school district or the State | 13 |
| Board of Education when any school district affected by those | 14 |
| proceedings is located in a school township referred to in | 15 |
| subsection (b) of Section 5-1 and there are no trustees of | 16 |
| schools acting in that township . | 17 |
| (Source: P.A. 87-969.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 19 |
| becoming law.".
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