Full Text of HB0595 97th General Assembly
HB0595ham001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia Filed: 3/23/2011
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 595
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 595 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 7-04 as follows: | 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/7-04) (from Ch. 122, par. 7-04) | 7 | | Sec. 7-04. Districts in educational service regions of | 8 | | 2,000,000 or more
inhabitants. | 9 | | (a) In all proceedings under this Article to change by | 10 | | detachment,
annexation, division, dissolution, or any | 11 | | combination of those methods the
boundaries of any school | 12 | | district (other than a school district organized
under Article | 13 | | 34) located in an educational service region of 2,000,000 or
| 14 | | more inhabitants in which the regional board of school trustees | 15 | | is
abolished as provided in subsection (a) of Section 6-2, the | 16 | | trustees of
schools of the township in which that school |
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| 1 | | district is located, as the
successor under subsection (b) of | 2 | | Section 6-2 to the former regional board
of school trustees | 3 | | with respect to all territory located in that school
township, | 4 | | shall have, exercise, and perform all powers, duties, and
| 5 | | responsibilities required under this Article to be exercised | 6 | | and performed
in those proceedings by a regional board of | 7 | | school trustees; provided that
if any school district affected | 8 | | by those proceedings is located in
a school township referred | 9 | | to in subsection (b) of Section 5-1 and there
are no trustees | 10 | | of schools acting in that township , then the intermediate | 11 | | service center wherein the detaching territory is located | 12 | | school board
of any such district, as the successor under | 13 | | subsection (b) of Section 6-2
to the former regional board of | 14 | | school trustees with respect to the
territory comprising that | 15 | | school district, shall have, exercise, and
perform all powers, | 16 | | duties, and responsibilities required under this
Article to be | 17 | | exercised and performed in those proceedings with respect to
| 18 | | the territory of that school district by a regional board of | 19 | | school
trustees; and provided further that: (i) when any school | 20 | | district affected
by those proceedings is located not only in | 21 | | an educational service region
of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants | 22 | | but also in 2 or more school townships in
that region that each | 23 | | have trustees of schools of the township, then the
boundaries | 24 | | of that school district may be changed under this Article by
| 25 | | detachment, annexation, division, dissolution, or any | 26 | | combination of those
methods only by the concurrent action of, |
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| 1 | | taken following a joint hearing
before the trustees of schools | 2 | | of those townships (in that educational
service region) in | 3 | | which that school district is located; and (ii) if any
part of | 4 | | the school district referred to in item (i) of this subsection
| 5 | | also lies within an educational service region that has a | 6 | | regional board of
school trustees, the boundaries of that | 7 | | district may be changed under this
Article only by the | 8 | | concurrent action of, taken following a joint hearing
before | 9 | | the trustees of schools of the townships referred to in item | 10 | | (i) of
this subsection and the regional board of school | 11 | | trustees of the educational
service region referred to in this | 12 | | item (ii) of this subsection. Whenever
concurrent action and | 13 | | joint hearings are required under this subsection,
the original | 14 | | petition shall be filed with the trustees of schools of the
| 15 | | township in which the territory or greatest portion of the | 16 | | territory being
detached is located, or if the territory is | 17 | | being detached from more than
one educational service region | 18 | | then with the regional board of school
trustees of the region | 19 | | or the trustees of schools of the township in which
the | 20 | | territory or greatest portion of the territory being detached | 21 | | 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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| 1 | | to any proceedings to change the boundaries of any school
| 2 | | 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 | 13 | | intermediate service center wherein the detaching territory is | 14 | | located when any school district affected by those proceedings | 15 | | is located in a school township referred to in subsection (b) | 16 | | of Section 5-1 and there are no trustees of schools acting in | 17 | | that township . | 18 | | (Source: P.A. 87-969.)
| 19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 20 | | becoming law.".
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