Full Text of SB0579 98th General Assembly
SB0579ham001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Thaddeus Jones Filed: 5/23/2014
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 579
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 579 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 5 | | 2-3.62 and 3-0.01 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.62) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.62)
| 7 | | Sec. 2-3.62. Educational Service Centers.
| 8 | | (a) A regional network of educational service centers shall | 9 | | be established
by the State Board of Education to coordinate | 10 | | and combine existing services in
a manner which is practical | 11 | | and efficient and to provide new services to
schools as | 12 | | provided in this Section. Services to be made available by such
| 13 | | centers shall include the planning, implementation and | 14 | | evaluation of:
| 15 | | (1) (blank);
| 16 | | (2) computer technology education;
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| 1 | | (3) mathematics, science and reading resources for | 2 | | teachers including
continuing education, inservice | 3 | | training and staff development.
| 4 | | The centers may provide training, technical assistance, | 5 | | coordination and
planning in other program areas such as school | 6 | | improvement, school
accountability, financial planning, | 7 | | consultation, and services, career guidance, early childhood | 8 | | education, alcohol/drug
education and prevention, family life - | 9 | | sex education, electronic transmission
of data from school | 10 | | districts to the State, alternative education and regional
| 11 | | special education, and telecommunications systems that provide | 12 | | distance
learning. Such telecommunications systems may be | 13 | | obtained through the
Department of Central Management Services | 14 | | pursuant to Section 405-270 of the
Department of Central | 15 | | Management Services Law (20 ILCS 405/405-270). The programs and | 16 | | services of educational
service centers may be offered to | 17 | | private school teachers and private school
students within each | 18 | | service center area provided public schools have already
been | 19 | | afforded adequate access to such programs and services.
| 20 | | Upon the abolition of the office, removal from office, | 21 | | disqualification for office, resignation from office, or | 22 | | expiration of the current term of office of the regional | 23 | | superintendent of schools, whichever is earlier, the chief | 24 | | administrative officer of the centers serving that portion of a | 25 | | Class II county school unit outside of a city of 500,000 or | 26 | | more inhabitants shall have and exercise, in and with respect |
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| 1 | | to each educational service region having a population of | 2 | | 2,000,000 or more inhabitants and in and with respect to each | 3 | | school district located in any such educational service region, | 4 | | all of the rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities | 5 | | theretofore vested by law in and exercised and performed by the | 6 | | regional superintendent of schools for that area under the | 7 | | provisions of this Code or any other laws of this State. | 8 | | The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and | 9 | | regulations necessary
to implement this Section. The rules | 10 | | shall include detailed standards which
delineate the scope and | 11 | | specific content of programs to be provided by each
Educational | 12 | | Service Center, as well as the specific planning, | 13 | | implementation
and evaluation services to be provided by each | 14 | | Center relative to its programs.
The Board shall also provide | 15 | | the standards by which it will evaluate the
programs provided | 16 | | by each Center.
| 17 | | (b) Centers serving Class 1 county school units shall be | 18 | | governed by an
11-member board, 3 members of which shall be | 19 | | public school teachers
nominated by the local bargaining | 20 | | representatives to the appropriate regional
superintendent for | 21 | | appointment and no more than 3 members of which shall be
from | 22 | | each of the following categories, including but not limited to
| 23 | | superintendents, regional superintendents, school board | 24 | | members
and a representative of an institution of higher | 25 | | education. The members of
the board shall be appointed by the | 26 | | regional superintendents whose school
districts are served by |
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| 1 | | the educational service center.
The composition of the board | 2 | | will reflect the revisions of this
amendatory Act of 1989 as | 3 | | the terms of office of current members expire.
| 4 | | (c) The centers shall be of sufficient size and number to | 5 | | assure delivery
of services to all local school districts in | 6 | | the State.
| 7 | | (d) From monies appropriated for this program the State | 8 | | Board of
Education shall provide grants paid from the Personal | 9 | | Property Tax Replacement Fund to qualifying Educational | 10 | | Service Centers
applying for such grants in accordance with | 11 | | rules and regulations
promulgated by the State Board of | 12 | | Education to implement this Section.
| 13 | | (e) The governing authority of each of the 18 regional | 14 | | educational service
centers shall appoint a family life - sex | 15 | | education advisory board
consisting of 2 parents, 2 teachers, 2 | 16 | | school administrators, 2 school
board members, 2 health care | 17 | | professionals, one library system
representative, and the | 18 | | director of the regional educational service center
who shall | 19 | | serve as chairperson of the advisory board so appointed. | 20 | | Members
of the family life - sex education advisory boards | 21 | | shall serve without
compensation. Each of the advisory boards | 22 | | appointed pursuant to this
subsection shall develop a plan for | 23 | | regional teacher-parent family life - sex
education training | 24 | | sessions and shall file a written report of such plan
with the | 25 | | governing board of their regional educational service center. | 26 | | The
directors of each of the regional educational service
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| 1 | | centers shall thereupon meet, review each of the reports | 2 | | submitted by the
advisory boards and combine those reports into | 3 | | a single written report which
they shall file with the Citizens | 4 | | Council on School Problems prior to the
end of the regular | 5 | | school term of the 1987-1988 school year.
| 6 | | (f) The 14 educational service centers serving Class I | 7 | | county school units
shall be disbanded on the first Monday of | 8 | | August, 1995, and their statutory
responsibilities and | 9 | | programs shall be assumed by the regional offices of
education, | 10 | | subject to rules and regulations developed by
the
State Board | 11 | | of Education. The regional superintendents of schools elected | 12 | | by
the voters residing in all Class I counties shall serve as | 13 | | the chief
administrators for these programs and services. By | 14 | | rule of the State Board of
Education, the 10 educational | 15 | | service regions of
lowest
population shall provide such | 16 | | services under cooperative agreements with larger
regions.
| 17 | | (Source: P.A. 97-619, eff. 11-14-11; 98-24, eff. 6-19-13.)
| 18 | | (105 ILCS 5/3-0.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-0.01)
| 19 | | Sec. 3-0.01.
"County superintendent of schools" and
| 20 | | "regional superintendent of schools" defined - Application of | 21 | | Article.
| 22 | | (a) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (b), after | 23 | | the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 1975, the chief | 24 | | administrative
officer of an educational service region shall | 25 | | be designated and referred
to as the "regional superintendent |
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| 1 | | of schools" or the "regional
superintendent" and after the | 2 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993
the office held | 3 | | by the chief administrative officer shall be designated and
| 4 | | referred to as the "regional office of education". For purposes | 5 | | of the School
Code and except as otherwise provided by | 6 | | subsection (b), any reference to
"county superintendent of | 7 | | schools" or "county superintendent" means the
regional | 8 | | superintendent of schools.
| 9 | | (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Article, | 10 | | but subject to subsection (b-1), in educational service regions | 11 | | containing
2,000,000 or more inhabitants, the office of | 12 | | regional superintendent of schools
is abolished. Subject to | 13 | | Section 2-3.105 of this Code, beginning on July 1, 2010 ( the | 14 | | effective date of Public Act 96-893) this amendatory Act of the | 15 | | 96th General Assembly , all rights, powers, duties and | 16 | | responsibilities theretofore vested by
law in, and exercised | 17 | | and performed by the regional superintendent of schools
and by | 18 | | any assistant regional superintendents or other assistants or | 19 | | employees
in the office of the regional superintendent of | 20 | | schools being abolished shall be
vested in, exercised and | 21 | | performed by the chief administrative officer of the | 22 | | educational service centers established pursuant to Section | 23 | | 2-3.62 of this Code for any educational service region | 24 | | containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants. Beginning on the | 25 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | 26 | | Assembly, in an educational service region
containing |
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| 1 | | 2,000,000 or more inhabitants: (i) all books, records, maps, | 2 | | papers
and other documents belonging to or subject to the | 3 | | control or disposition of
the former regional superintendent of | 4 | | schools by virtue of his office shall be
transferred and | 5 | | delivered to the State Board of Education; (ii) possession or
| 6 | | control over all moneys, deposits and accounts in the | 7 | | possession or
subject to the control or disposition of the | 8 | | former regional superintendent
of schools by virtue of his | 9 | | office, including but not limited to
undistributed or | 10 | | unexpended moneys drawn from, and all amounts on deposit
in, | 11 | | the county, institute and supervisory expense funds, shall be
| 12 | | transferred to and placed under the control and disposition of | 13 | | the State Board
of Education, excepting only those moneys or | 14 | | accounts, if any, the source of
which is the county treasury, | 15 | | for proper redistribution to the educational service centers; | 16 | | and (iii) all other equipment, furnishings,
supplies and other | 17 | | personal property belonging to or subject to the control or
| 18 | | disposition of the former regional superintendent of schools by | 19 | | virtue of his
office, excepting only those items which were | 20 | | provided by the county board,
shall be transferred and | 21 | | delivered to the State Board of Education. Beginning on July 1, | 22 | | 2010 ( the effective date of Public Act 96-893) this amendatory | 23 | | Act of the 96th General Assembly , any reference in this Code to | 24 | | "regional superintendent of schools" or "regional | 25 | | superintendent", or
"county superintendent of schools" or | 26 | | "county superintendent" shall mean, with
respect to any |
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| 1 | | educational service region containing 2,000,000 or more
| 2 | | inhabitants in which the office of regional superintendent of | 3 | | schools is
abolished, the chief administrative officer of the | 4 | | educational service centers established pursuant to Section | 5 | | 2-3.62 of this Code for the educational service region. Upon | 6 | | and after the first Monday of August 1995,
references in this | 7 | | Code and elsewhere to educational service regions of
2,000,000 | 8 | | or fewer inhabitants shall exclude any educational service | 9 | | region
containing a city of 500,000 or more inhabitants and | 10 | | references in this Code
and elsewhere to educational service | 11 | | regions of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants
shall mean an | 12 | | educational service region containing a city of 500,000 or more
| 13 | | inhabitants regardless of the actual population of the region.
| 14 | | (b-1) References to "regional superintendent" shall also | 15 | | include the chief administrative officer of the educational | 16 | | service centers established under Section 2-3.62 of this Code | 17 | | and
serving that portion of a Class
II county outside a city of | 18 | | 500,000 or more population elected at the general
election in | 19 | | 1994 and every 4 years thereafter .
| 20 | | (c) This Article applies to the regional superintendent of | 21 | | a multicounty
educational service region formed under Article | 22 | | 3A as well as to a single
county or partial county region, | 23 | | except that in case of conflict between
the provisions of this | 24 | | Article and of Article 3A in the case of a multicounty
region, | 25 | | the provisions of Article 3A shall apply. Any reference to | 26 | | "county" or
to "educational service region" in this Article |
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| 1 | | means a regional office of
education.
| 2 | | (Source: P.A. 96-893, eff. 7-1-10.)
| 3 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 4 | | becoming law.".
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