Full Text of HB5546 98th General Assembly
HB5546eng 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 5 | | 6-2 and 6-19 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/6-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 6-2)
| 7 | | Sec. 6-2. Regional board; creation; membership; abolition | 8 | | and
transfer of duties. | 9 | | (a) There is created a regional board of school trustees | 10 | | for that territory
in each educational service region exclusive | 11 | | of any school district organized
under Article 34 and exclusive | 12 | | of any school district whose school board has
been given the | 13 | | powers of school trustees; provided that on the effective date
| 14 | | of this amendatory Act of 1992 the regional board of school | 15 | | trustees
theretofore created and existing for any territory in | 16 | | an educational service
region containing 2,000,000 or more | 17 | | inhabitants is abolished, the terms of
office of all members of | 18 | | the regional board of school trustees so abolished are
| 19 | | terminated on that effective date, and from and after that | 20 | | effective date all
rights, powers, duties, and | 21 | | responsibilities that were vested in or required by
law to be | 22 | | exercised and performed by the former regional board of school
| 23 | | trustees shall be vested in and exercised and performed by the |
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| 1 | | successors to
the former regional board of school trustees as | 2 | | provided in subsection (b) of
this Section 6-2. Any school | 3 | | district whose board of education acts as a board
of school | 4 | | trustees shall have within its district the powers and duties | 5 | | of a
regional board of school trustees.
| 6 | | Unless abolished as provided in this Section, the regional | 7 | | board of
school trustees, in both single county and | 8 | | multi-county
educational service regions, shall consist of 7 | 9 | | members. In single county
regions not more than one trustee may | 10 | | be a resident of any one congressional
township; however, in | 11 | | case there are fewer than 7 congressional townships
in the | 12 | | region then not more than two of such trustees may be residents | 13 | | of
the same congressional township. Notwithstanding the | 14 | | foregoing residency provision, in a single county region with a | 15 | | population of greater than 750,000 inhabitants, but less than | 16 | | 1,200,000 inhabitants, 2 trustees may be residents of the same | 17 | | congressional township if and only if such trustees were | 18 | | elected at the April 9, 2013 consolidated election. In 2 county | 19 | | regions at least 2 trustees
shall be residents of each county. | 20 | | In 3 or more county regions at least
one trustee shall be a | 21 | | resident of each county. If more than 7 counties
constitute the | 22 | | educational service region, the regional board of school
| 23 | | trustees shall consist of one resident of each county.
| 24 | | In single county educational service regions that have one | 25 | | or more unexpired terms to be filled at an election, the winner | 26 | | or winners of the unexpired term or terms shall be determined |
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| 1 | | first and independently of those running for full terms. As | 2 | | between 2 unexpired terms, the shorter unexpired term shall be | 3 | | filled first and the winner of the longer unexpired term shall | 4 | | be determined taking into consideration the congressional | 5 | | township of the winner of the shorter unexpired term. The | 6 | | winners of the full terms shall then be determined taking into | 7 | | consideration the congressional townships of those elected to | 8 | | fill the unexpired term or terms. | 9 | | The regional board of school trustees shall be a body | 10 | | politic and corporate
by the name of "Regional Board of School | 11 | | Trustees of.... County (or Counties),
Illinois." Such | 12 | | corporation shall have perpetual existence with power to
sue | 13 | | and be sued and to plead and be impleaded in all courts and | 14 | | places where
judicial proceedings are had.
| 15 | | (b) Upon the abolition of the regional board of school | 16 | | trustees and
the termination of the terms of office of the | 17 | | members of that former
regional board of school trustees in an | 18 | | educational service region
containing 2,000,000 or more | 19 | | inhabitants as provided in subsection (a), the
trustees of | 20 | | schools of each township included within the territory of that
| 21 | | educational service region that was served by the former | 22 | | regional board of
school trustees, or if any such township is a | 23 | | township referred to in
subsection (b) of Section 5-1 and there | 24 | | are no trustees of schools acting
in that township then the | 25 | | school board of each school district located in
that township, | 26 | | shall be the successors to the former regional board of
school |
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| 1 | | trustees. As successors to the former regional board of school
| 2 | | trustees, the trustees of schools of each such township and the | 3 | | school
board of each such school district, with respect to all | 4 | | territory included
within the school township or school | 5 | | district served by the trustees of
schools of the township or | 6 | | school board, shall be vested with and shall
exercise and | 7 | | perform all rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities
| 8 | | formerly held, exercised, and performed with respect to that | 9 | | territory by
the regional board of school trustees abolished | 10 | | under subsection (a) of this Section.
| 11 | | Upon abolition of the regional board of school trustees in | 12 | | an educational
service region having 2,000,000 or more | 13 | | inhabitants as provided in
subsection (a) of this Section, all | 14 | | books, records, maps, papers,
documents, equipment, supplies, | 15 | | accounts, deposits, and other personal
property belonging to or | 16 | | subject to the control or disposition of the
former regional | 17 | | board of school trustees (excepting only such items as may
have | 18 | | been provided by the county board) shall be transferred and | 19 | | delivered
to the trustees of schools of the townships and the | 20 | | school boards that are
the successors to the former regional | 21 | | board of school trustees for the
territory included within | 22 | | their respective school townships or school
districts.
| 23 | | From and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of | 24 | | 1992, any
reference in the School Code or any other law of this | 25 | | State to the regional
board of school trustees or county board | 26 | | of school trustees shall mean,
with respect to all territory |
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| 1 | | within an educational service region
containing 2,000,000 or | 2 | | more inhabitants that formerly was served by a
regional board | 3 | | of school trustees abolished under subsection (a) of this
| 4 | | Section, the trustees of schools of the township or the school | 5 | | board of the
school district that is the successor to the | 6 | | former regional board of
school trustees with respect to the | 7 | | territory included within that school
township or school | 8 | | district.
| 9 | | (Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 7-29-13.)
| 10 | | (105 ILCS 5/6-19) (from Ch. 122, par. 6-19)
| 11 | | Sec. 6-19. Vacancy on regional board. Subject to the | 12 | | residency provisions in Section 6-2 of this Code, any vacancy | 13 | | on the regional board of school trustees shall be filled
from | 14 | | the same territory by the remaining members until the next | 15 | | regular
election for members of the regional board of school | 16 | | trustees, when the
vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired | 17 | | time.
Removal of a member from the township from which such | 18 | | member was elected
into a township which has its quota of | 19 | | members on the board shall
constitute a vacancy.
| 20 | | (Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 7-29-13.)
| 21 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 22 | | 2014.
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