Full Text of HB3667 94th General Assembly
HB3667 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB3667
Introduced 02/24/05, by Rep. Calvin L. Giles SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/1A-1 |
from Ch. 122, par. 1A-1 |
105 ILCS 5/2-3.47 |
from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.47 |
105 ILCS 5/34-1 |
from Ch. 122, par. 34-1 |
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Amends the School Code. Makes technical changes with regard to the State Board of Education, the Comprehensive Education Plan, and the Chicago school district.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 5 |
| 1A-1, 2-3.47, and 34-1 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/1A-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 1A-1)
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| Sec. 1A-1. Members and terms.
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| (a) (Blank).
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| (b) The
The State Board of
Education shall consist of 8
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| members and a chairperson, who shall be appointed by the
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| Governor with the advice and consent
of the Senate from a | 12 |
| pattern of regional representation as follows: 2
appointees | 13 |
| shall be selected from among those counties of the State other
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| than Cook County and the 5 counties contiguous to Cook County; | 15 |
| 2 appointees shall be selected from
Cook County, one of whom | 16 |
| shall be a resident of the City of
Chicago and one of whom | 17 |
| shall be a resident of that
part of Cook County
which lies | 18 |
| outside the city limits of Chicago; 2
appointees shall be
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| selected from among the 5 counties of the State that are | 20 |
| contiguous to Cook
County; and 3 members
shall be selected as | 21 |
| members-at-large (one of which shall be the chairperson). The | 22 |
| Governor who takes office on the second Monday of January after | 23 |
| his or her election shall be the person who nominates members | 24 |
| to fill vacancies whose terms begin after that date and before | 25 |
| the term of the next Governor begins. | 26 |
| The term of each member of the State Board of Education | 27 |
| whose term expires on January 12, 2005 shall instead terminate | 28 |
| on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd | 29 |
| General Assembly. Of these 3 seats, (i) the member initially | 30 |
| appointed pursuant to this amendatory Act of the 93rd General | 31 |
| Assembly whose seat was vacant on April 27, 2004 shall serve | 32 |
| until the second Wednesday of January, 2009 and (ii) the other |
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| 2 members initially appointed pursuant to this amendatory Act | 2 |
| of the 93rd General Assembly shall serve until the second | 3 |
| Wednesday of January, 2007. | 4 |
| The term of the member of the State Board of Education | 5 |
| whose seat was vacant on April 27, 2004 and whose term expires | 6 |
| on January 10, 2007 shall instead terminate on the effective | 7 |
| date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly. The | 8 |
| member initially appointed pursuant to this amendatory Act of | 9 |
| the 93rd General Assembly to fill this seat shall be the | 10 |
| chairperson and shall serve until the second Wednesday of | 11 |
| January, 2007. | 12 |
| The term of the member of the State Board of Education | 13 |
| whose seat was vacant on May 28, 2004 but after April 27, 2004 | 14 |
| and whose term expires on January 10, 2007 shall instead | 15 |
| terminate on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | 16 |
| 93rd General Assembly. The member initially appointed pursuant | 17 |
| to this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly to fill | 18 |
| this seat shall serve until the second Wednesday of January, | 19 |
| 2007.
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| The term of the other member of the State Board of | 21 |
| Education whose term expires on January 10, 2007 shall instead | 22 |
| terminate on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | 23 |
| 93rd General Assembly. The member initially appointed pursuant | 24 |
| to this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly to fill | 25 |
| this seat shall serve until the second Wednesday of January, | 26 |
| 2007. | 27 |
| The term of the member of the State Board of Education | 28 |
| whose term expires on January 14, 2009 and who was selected | 29 |
| from among the 5 counties of the State that are contiguous to | 30 |
| Cook County and is a resident of Lake County shall instead | 31 |
| terminate on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | 32 |
| 93rd General Assembly. The member initially appointed pursuant | 33 |
| to this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly to fill | 34 |
| this seat shall serve until the second Wednesday of January, | 35 |
| 2009. | 36 |
| Upon expiration of the terms of the members initially |
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| appointed
under this amendatory Act of the 93rd General | 2 |
| Assembly and members whose terms were not terminated by this | 3 |
| amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, their respective | 4 |
| successors shall be
appointed for terms of 4
years, from the | 5 |
| second Wednesday in January of each
odd
numbered year and until | 6 |
| their respective successors are appointed and
qualified. | 7 |
| (c) Of the 4 members, excluding the chairperson, whose | 8 |
| terms expire on the second Wednesday of January, 2007 and every | 9 |
| 4 years thereafter, one of those members must be an at-large | 10 |
| member and at no time may more than 2 of those members be from | 11 |
| one political party. Of the 4 members whose terms expire on the | 12 |
| second Wednesday of January, 2009 and every 4 years thereafter, | 13 |
| one of those members must be an at-large member and at no time | 14 |
| may more than 2 of those members be from one political party. | 15 |
| Party membership is defined as having voted in the primary of | 16 |
| the party in the last primary before appointment.
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| (d) Vacancies in terms shall be filled by appointment by | 18 |
| the
Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate for the | 19 |
| extent of the
unexpired term.
If a vacancy in membership occurs | 20 |
| at a time when the Senate is not in
session, the Governor shall | 21 |
| make a temporary appointment until the next meeting
of the | 22 |
| Senate, when the Governor shall appoint a person to fill that | 23 |
| membership
for the remainder of its term. If the Senate is not | 24 |
| in session when
appointments for a full term are made, the | 25 |
| appointments shall be made as in the
case of vacancies.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-1036, eff. 9-14-04.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.47) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.47)
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| Sec. 2-3.47. Comprehensive Educational Plan. The
The State | 29 |
| Board of
Education shall analyze the current and anticipated
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| problems and deficiencies, present and future minimum needs and
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| requirements and immediate and future objectives and goals of | 32 |
| elementary
and secondary education in the State of Illinois, | 33 |
| and shall design and prepare
a Comprehensive Educational Plan | 34 |
| for the development, expansion, integration,
coordination, and | 35 |
| improved and efficient utilization of the personnel,
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| facilities,
revenues, curricula and standards of elementary | 2 |
| and secondary education
for the public schools in the areas of | 3 |
| teaching (including preparation,
certification, compensation, | 4 |
| classification, performance rating and tenure),
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| administration, program content and enrichment, student | 6 |
| academic achievement,
class size, transportation, educational | 7 |
| finance and budgetary and accounting
procedure, and | 8 |
| educational policy and resource planning. In formulating
the | 9 |
| Comprehensive Educational Plan for elementary and secondary | 10 |
| education,
pre-school through grade 12, in this State, the | 11 |
| State Board of Education
shall give consideration to disabled, | 12 |
| occupational,
career and
other specialized areas of elementary | 13 |
| and secondary education, and further
shall consider the | 14 |
| problems, requirements and objectives of private elementary
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| and secondary schools within the State as the same relate to | 16 |
| the present
and future problems, deficiencies, needs, | 17 |
| requirements, objectives and goals
of the public school system | 18 |
| of Illinois. As an integral part of the
Comprehensive
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| Educational Plan, the State Board of Education shall develop an | 20 |
| annual budget
for education for the entire State which details | 21 |
| the required, total revenues
from all sources and the estimated | 22 |
| total expenditures for all purposes under
the Comprehensive
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| Educational
Plan. The budgets shall specify the amount of | 24 |
| revenue projected from each
source and the amount of | 25 |
| expenditure estimated for each purpose for the fiscal year, and | 26 |
| shall specifically relate and identify such projected
revenues | 27 |
| and estimated expenditures to the particular problem, | 28 |
| deficiency,
need, requirement, objective or goal set forth in | 29 |
| the Comprehensive Educational
Plan to which such revenues for | 30 |
| expenditures are attributable. The State
Board of Education | 31 |
| shall prepare and submit to the General Assembly and
the | 32 |
| Governor drafts of proposed legislation to implement the | 33 |
| Comprehensive
Educational Plan; shall engage in a continuing | 34 |
| study, analysis and evaluation
of the Comprehensive | 35 |
| Educational Plan so designed and prepared;
and shall from time | 36 |
| to time as required with respect to such annual budgets,
and as |
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| the State Board of Education shall determine with respect to | 2 |
| any
proposed amendments or modifications of any Comprehensive | 3 |
| Educational Plan
enacted by the General Assembly, submit its | 4 |
| drafts or recommendations for
proposed legislation to the | 5 |
| General Assembly and the Governor.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-21, eff. 7-1-03.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/34-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-1)
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| Sec. 34-1. Application of article; Definitions. This
This
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| Article applies only to
cities having a population exceeding | 10 |
| 500,000.
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| "Trustees", when used in this Article, means the Chicago | 12 |
| School Reform
Board of Trustees created by this amendatory Act | 13 |
| of 1995 and serving as the
governing board of the school | 14 |
| district organized under this Article beginning
with its | 15 |
| appointment on or after the effective date of this amendatory | 16 |
| Act of
1995 and continuing until June 30, 1999 or the | 17 |
| appointment of a new Chicago
Board of Education as provided in | 18 |
| Section 34-3, whichever is later.
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| "Board", or "board of education" when used in this Article, | 20 |
| means: (i)
the Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees for the | 21 |
| period that begins with the
appointment of the Trustees and | 22 |
| that ends on the later of June 30, 1999 or the
appointment of a | 23 |
| new Chicago Board of Education as provided in Section 34-3;
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| (ii) the new Chicago Board of Education from and after June 30, | 25 |
| 1999 or
from and after its appointment as provided in Section | 26 |
| 34-3, whichever is later.
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| Except during the period that begins with the appointment | 28 |
| of the Chicago
School Reform Board of Trustees on or after the | 29 |
| effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1995 and that ends on | 30 |
| the later of June 30, 1999 or the
appointment of a new Chicago | 31 |
| Board of Education as provided in Section 34-3:
(i) the school | 32 |
| district organized under this Article may be subject to further
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| limitations imposed under Article 34A; and (ii) the provisions | 34 |
| of Article 34A
prevail over the other provisions of this Act, | 35 |
| including the provisions of this
Article, to the extent of any |
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| (Source: P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
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