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90_HB2709

      105 ILCS 5/3-2.5
          Amends the School Code.  Changes the salary schedule  for
      regional  superintendents  of  schools  effective  the  first
      Monday  of August, 1999.  Provides for an adjustment to those
      annual salaries on July 1 of each year thereafter.  Effective
      immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to amend  the  School  Code  by  changing  Section
 2    3-2.5.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.   The  School  Code  is  amended  by  changing
 6    Section 3-2.5 as follows:
 7        (105 ILCS 5/3-2.5)
 8        Sec. 3-2.5. Salaries.
 9        (a)  Except  as otherwise provided in subsection (b), the
10    regional superintendents of schools shall receive  for  their
11    services  an  annual  salary  according to the population, as
12    determined by the  last  preceding  federal  census,  of  the
13    region  they  serve,  as  follows  set  out  in the following
14    schedule:
15           SALARIES OF REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS
16               UNTIL THE FIRST MONDAY OF AUGUST, 1999
17        POPULATION OF REGION                        ANNUAL SALARY
18        Less than 48,000                                  $66,000
19        48,000 to 99,999                                  $70,500
20        100,000 to 999,999                                $74,000
21        1,000,000 and over                                $76,000
22        Effective on the first Monday of August, 1999 and on July
23    1 of  every  year  thereafter:  regional  superintendents  of
24    schools of an educational service region with a population of
25    500,000  or more inhabitants shall receive for their services
26    an annual salary equal to 105% of  the  mean  salary  of  all
27    school  district  superintendents in the State, as determined
28    each year by the  State  Board  of  Education  under  Section
29    2-3.103 of the School Code for the school year that commences
30    in  the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year
31    in which  the  first  payment  of  the  annual  salary  being
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 1    determined is to be made; regional superintendents of schools
 2    in  educational  service  regions  with  100,000  to  499,999
 3    inhabitants shall receive for their services an annual salary
 4    equal  to 97.37% of the annual salary as determined each year
 5    for  regional  superintendents  of  schools  in   educational
 6    service   regions  with  500,000  or  more  inhabitants;  and
 7    regional superintendents of schools  in  educational  service
 8    regions with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants shall receive for
 9    their services an annual salary equal to 92.76% of the annual
10    salary  as  determined each year for regional superintendents
11    of schools in educational service  regions  with  500,000  or
12    more inhabitants.
13        The changes made by Public Act 86-98 in the annual salary
14    that  the  regional  superintendents of schools shall receive
15    for their services shall apply to the annual salary  received
16    by  the  regional  superintendents  of schools during each of
17    their elected terms of office that commence  after  July  26,
18    1989 and before the first Monday of August, 1995.
19        The  changes  made  by  Public  Act  89-225 in the annual
20    salary that regional superintendents of schools shall receive
21    for their services shall apply to the annual salary  received
22    by  the  regional  superintendents  of schools during each of
23    their elected terms of office that commence after  August  4,
24    1995.
25        When  regional  superintendents  are  authorized  by  the
26    School  Code  to  appoint assistant regional superintendents,
27    the assistant regional superintendent shall receive an annual
28    salary  based  on  his  qualifications  and  computed  as   a
29    percentage  of  the  salary of the regional superintendent to
30    whom he is assistant, as set out in the following schedule:
31    SALARIES OF ASSISTANT REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS
32        QUALIFICATIONS OF                    PERCENTAGE OF SALARY
33        ASSISTANT REGIONAL                            OF REGIONAL
34        SUPERINTENDENT                             SUPERINTENDENT
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 1        No Bachelor's degree, but
 2        State certificate valid                             70%
 3        for teaching and
 4        supervising.
 5        Bachelor's degree plus
 6        State certificate valid                             75%
 7        for supervising.
 8        Master's degree plus
 9        State certificate valid                             90%
10        for supervising.
11        However, in any region in which the appointment  of  more
12    than  one  assistant  regional  superintendent is authorized,
13    whether by Section 3-15.10 of this  Code  or  otherwise,  not
14    more  than  one  assistant may be compensated at the 90% rate
15    and any other assistant shall be paid at  not  exceeding  the
16    75% rate, in each case depending on the qualifications of the
17    assistant.
18        The  salaries  provided  in  this  Section  for  regional
19    superintendents  and  assistant regional superintendents  are
20    payable monthly from  the  Common  School  Fund.   The  State
21    Comptroller  in  making  his or her warrant to any county for
22    the amount due it from the Common School  Fund  shall  deduct
23    from  it  the  several  amounts  for which warrants have been
24    issued to the  regional  superintendent,  and  any  assistant
25    regional  superintendent,  of  the educational service region
26    encompassing the county since the preceding apportionment  of
27    the Common School Fund.
28        County boards may provide for additional compensation for
29    the   regional   superintendent  or  the  assistant  regional
30    superintendents, or for each of them, to  be  paid  quarterly
31    from the county treasury.
32        (b)  Upon  abolition  on  July  1, 1994, of the office of
33    regional superintendent of  schools  in  educational  service
34    regions  containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants as provided
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 1    in Section 3-0.01 of this Code, the provisions of  subsection
 2    (a)  of this Section shall no longer apply in any educational
 3    service region in which the office of regional superintendent
 4    of  schools  is  so  abolished,  and  no  salary   or   other
 5    compensation  shall  be  payable under that subsection (a) or
 6    under any other provision of this Section with respect to the
 7    office so abolished or with respect to any assistant position
 8    to the office so abolished.
 9    (Source: P.A. 89-233, eff. 1-1-96; incorporates 89-225,  eff.
10    8-4-95; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
11        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
12    becoming law.

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