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| | HB2631 Engrossed | | LRB098 08991 NHT 39126 b |
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1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section |
5 | | 29-20 as follows: |
6 | | (105 ILCS 5/29-20 new) |
7 | | Sec. 29-20. Transportation for school districts with |
8 | | coterminous boundaries. Any 2 or more school districts that |
9 | | share the same boundaries may combine transportation |
10 | | activities to, in addition to the variety of economic, |
11 | | environmental, and traffic safety benefits, achieve savings to |
12 | | these school districts as well as this State. For any school |
13 | | districts electing to combine such transportation, the State |
14 | | Board of Education shall reimburse the school districts in an |
15 | | amount in addition to any other transportation reimbursement or |
16 | | other moneys owed to the school districts. In calculating this |
17 | | reimbursement, the State Board of Education shall reimburse |
18 | | school districts in the year following the year in which |
19 | | savings were achieved in an amount deemed equal to 75% of the |
20 | | actual or estimated savings achieved by this State from any |
21 | | reductions in other reimbursement the consolidation achieved. |
22 | | This additional reimbursement must be divided between or among |
23 | | the school districts by a percentage equal to the percentage of |