Full Text of HB1254 100th 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 Section | 5 | | 18-12 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/18-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 18-12)
| 7 | | Sec. 18-12. Dates for filing State aid claims. The school | 8 | | board of
each school district, a regional office of education, | 9 | | a laboratory school, or a State-authorized charter school shall | 10 | | require teachers, principals, or
superintendents to furnish | 11 | | from records kept by them such data as it
needs in preparing | 12 | | and certifying to the State Superintendent of Education
its | 13 | | report of claims provided in Section
18-8.05 of this Code. The | 14 | | claim
shall be based on the latest available equalized assessed | 15 | | valuation and tax
rates, as provided in Section 18-8.05, shall | 16 | | use the average
daily
attendance as determined by the method | 17 | | outlined in Section 18-8.05,
and shall be
certified and filed | 18 | | with the State Superintendent of Education by June 21
for | 19 | | districts and State-authorized charter schools with an
| 20 | | official
school calendar end date before June 15 or within 2 | 21 | | weeks following the
official school calendar end date for | 22 | | districts, regional offices of education, laboratory schools, | 23 | | or State-authorized charter schools with a school year end date
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| 1 | | of June 15 or later.
Failure to
so file by these deadlines | 2 | | constitutes a forfeiture of the right
to
receive payment by
the | 3 | | State until such claim is filed. The
State Superintendent of | 4 | | Education shall voucher
for payment those claims to the State | 5 | | Comptroller as provided in Section 18-11.
| 6 | | Except as otherwise provided in this Section, if any school | 7 | | district
fails to provide the minimum school term specified
in | 8 | | Section 10-19, the State aid claim for that year shall be | 9 | | reduced by the
State Superintendent of Education in an amount | 10 | | equivalent to 1/176 or .56818% for
each day less than the | 11 | | number of days required by this Code.
| 12 | | If
the State Superintendent of Education determines that | 13 | | the failure
to
provide the minimum school term was occasioned | 14 | | by an act or acts of God, or
was occasioned by conditions | 15 | | beyond the control of the school district
which posed a | 16 | | hazardous threat to the health and safety of pupils, the
State | 17 | | aid claim need not be reduced.
| 18 | | If a school district is precluded from providing the | 19 | | minimum hours of instruction required for a full day of | 20 | | attendance due to (A) an adverse weather condition , (B) or a | 21 | | condition beyond the control of the school district that poses | 22 | | a hazardous threat to the health and safety of students, or (C) | 23 | | beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, the utilization of | 24 | | the school district's facilities for not more than 2 school | 25 | | days per school year by local or county authorities for the | 26 | | purpose of holding a memorial or funeral services in |
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| 1 | | remembrance of a community member, then the partial day of | 2 | | attendance may be counted if (i) the school district has | 3 | | provided at least one hour of instruction prior to the closure | 4 | | of the school district, (ii) a school building has provided at | 5 | | least one hour of instruction prior to the closure of the | 6 | | school building, or (iii) the normal start time of the school | 7 | | district is delayed. | 8 | | If, prior to providing any instruction, a school district | 9 | | must close one or more but not all school buildings after | 10 | | consultation with a local emergency response agency or due to a | 11 | | condition beyond the control of the school district, then the | 12 | | school district may claim attendance for up to 2 school days | 13 | | based on the average attendance of the 3 school days | 14 | | immediately preceding the closure of the affected school | 15 | | building or, if approved by the State Board of Education, | 16 | | utilize the provisions of an e-learning program for the | 17 | | affected school building as prescribed in Section 10-20.56 of | 18 | | this Code. The partial or no day of attendance described in | 19 | | this Section and the reasons therefore shall be certified | 20 | | within a month of the closing or delayed start by the school | 21 | | district superintendent to the regional superintendent of | 22 | | schools for forwarding to the State Superintendent of Education | 23 | | for approval.
| 24 | | Other than the utilization of any e-learning days as | 25 | | prescribed in Section 10-20.56 of this Code, no exception to | 26 | | the requirement of providing a minimum school term may
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| 1 | | approved by the State Superintendent of Education pursuant to | 2 | | this Section
unless a school district has first used all | 3 | | emergency days provided for
in its regular calendar.
| 4 | | If the State Superintendent of Education declares that an | 5 | | energy
shortage exists during any part of the school year for | 6 | | the State or a
designated portion of the State, a district may | 7 | | operate the school
attendance centers within the district 4 | 8 | | days of the week during the
time of the shortage by extending | 9 | | each existing school day by one clock
hour of school work, and | 10 | | the State aid claim shall not be reduced, nor
shall the | 11 | | employees of that district suffer any reduction in salary or
| 12 | | benefits as a result thereof. A district may operate all | 13 | | attendance
centers on this revised schedule, or may apply the | 14 | | schedule to selected
attendance centers, taking into | 15 | | consideration such factors as pupil
transportation schedules | 16 | | and patterns and sources of energy for
individual attendance | 17 | | centers.
| 18 | | Electronically submitted State aid claims shall be | 19 | | submitted by
duly authorized district individuals over a secure | 20 | | network
that is password protected. The electronic submission | 21 | | of a State aid
claim must be accompanied with an affirmation | 22 | | that all of the provisions
of Sections 18-8.05, 10-22.5, and | 23 | | 24-4 of this Code are
met in all respects.
| 24 | | (Source: P.A. 99-194, eff. 7-30-15; 99-657, eff. 7-28-16.)
| 25 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 26 | | becoming law.
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