Full Text of SB2706 97th 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 | | 3A-4 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/3A-4) (from Ch. 122, par. 3A-4)
| 7 | | Sec. 3A-4. Mandatory consolidation of educational service | 8 | | regions.
| 9 | | (a) After July 1, 2015 October 15, 1993 ,
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region must | 10 | | contain at least 61,000 43,000 inhabitants. Before June 30, | 11 | | 2013, regions Regions may be consolidated
voluntarily under | 12 | | Section 3A-3 or by joint resolution of the county boards of
| 13 | | regions seeking to join a voluntary consolidation , effective | 14 | | July 1, 2015, to meet these population
requirements. The | 15 | | boundaries of regions already meeting these population
| 16 | | requirements on the effective date of this amendatory Act of | 17 | | the 97th General Assembly 1993 may not be
changed except to | 18 | | consolidate with another region or a whole county portion of
| 19 | | another region which does not meet these population | 20 | | requirements.
If , before January 1, 2014, locally determined | 21 | | consolidation decisions result in more than 35 45 regions of
| 22 | | population greater than 61,000 43,000 each, the State Board of | 23 | | Education shall , before June 1, 2014, direct
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| 1 | | consolidation, beginning with the region of lowest population, | 2 | | until
the number of 35 45 regions is achieved.
| 3 | | (b) (Blank).
| 4 | | (c) If, within 90 days after the most recent certified | 5 | | federal census, a region does not meet the population | 6 | | requirements of this Section, then regions may be consolidated | 7 | | voluntarily under Section 3A-3 of this Code or by joint | 8 | | resolution of the county boards of regions seeking to join a | 9 | | voluntary consolidation to meet these population requirements. | 10 | | If locally determined consolidation decisions result in a | 11 | | region not meeting the population requirements of this Section | 12 | | or result in more than 35 regions, then the State Board of | 13 | | Education shall have the authority to impose further | 14 | | consolidation by order of the State Superintendent of | 15 | | Education. Such an order shall be a final order and is subject | 16 | | to the Administrative Review Law. If any region does not meet | 17 | | the population requirements of this
Section the State Board of | 18 | | Education, within 15 days after
the above said dates, shall | 19 | | direct such consolidation of that region
with another region or | 20 | | regions to which it is contiguous as will result
in a region | 21 | | conforming to these population requirements.
| 22 | | (d) All population determinations shall be based on the | 23 | | most recent
federal census.
| 24 | | (Source: P.A. 88-89; 89-608, eff. 8-2-96.)
| 25 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 26 | | becoming law. |
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