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90_HB3899

      105 ILCS 230/5-35
          Amends the School Construction Law.   Provides  that  for
      fiscal years subsequent to fiscal year 1999, the total amount
      of school construction project grants awarded statewide shall
      be  allocated  among 4 regions in proportion to the aggregate
      average daily attendance of the school districts in each such
      region.  Establishes  the  4  regions  as  (1)  the  City  of
      Chicago;  (2)  suburban  Cook  County;  (3)  the  counties of
      Dupage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will; and  (4)  the
      remainder  of  the  State.   Provides  for  the  award of the
      aggregate grant funds  allocated  to  a  region  to  eligible
      school  districts  within  that region in accordance with the
      priority order determined for  school  construction  projects
      that are based upon the approved district facilities plans of
      those school districts.  Effective immediately.
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 1        AN  ACT  to amend the School Construction Law by changing
 2    Section 5-35.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.   The  School  Construction Law is amended by
 6    changing Section 5-35 as follows:
 7        (105 ILCS 230/5-35)
 8        Sec. 5-35. School  construction  project  grant  amounts;
 9    prohibited use.
10        (a)  The  product  of  the district's grant index and the
11    recognized  project  cost,  as  determined  by  the   Capital
12    Development   Board,  for  an  approved  school  construction
13    project shall equal the  amount  of  the  grant  the  Capital
14    Development  Board  shall  provide  to the eligible district.
15    The grant index shall not be used in cases where the  General
16    Assembly  and  the Governor approve appropriations designated
17    for  specifically  identified  school  district  construction
18    projects.
19        (b)  Of  the  In  each  fiscal  year  in   which   school
20    construction  project  grants that are awarded in fiscal year
21    1999, 20% of the total  amount  awarded  statewide  shall  be
22    awarded  to  a  school  district  with a population exceeding
23    500,000, provided such district complies with the  provisions
24    of  this  Article. In each fiscal year after fiscal year 1999
25    in which school construction project grants are awarded,  the
26    total  amount  awarded  statewide  shall be allocated among 4
27    regions,  in  proportion  to  the  aggregate  average   daily
28    attendance  of  all  school  districts in each such region as
29    that average daily attendance is determined and used  by  the
30    State  Board of Education to compute the general State aid of
31    school districts under Section 18-8.05 of the School Code for
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 1    the fiscal year in  which  the  school  construction  project
 2    grants  are  awarded.   The  4  regions among which the total
 3    amount of school construction project  grants  awarded  in  a
 4    fiscal  year  subsequent  to  fiscal  year  1999  is to be so
 5    allocated  are:   (1)  the  territory  falling   within   the
 6    corporate   boundaries  of  the  City  of  Chicago;  (2)  the
 7    territory falling within the  corporate  boundaries  of  Cook
 8    County,   exclusive  of  the  territory  falling  within  the
 9    corporate  boundaries  of  the  City  of  Chicago;  (3)   the
10    territory  falling  within  the  corporate  boundaries of the
11    counties of DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry,  and  Will;
12    and (4) the territory falling within the corporate boundaries
13    of  all  counties  of  the  State, exclusive of the territory
14    falling with the corporate  boundaries  of  the  counties  of
15    Cook,  DuPage,  Kane,  Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will.  The
16    aggregate  amount  of  school  construction  project   grants
17    allocated  to  a region in a fiscal year subsequent to fiscal
18    year 1999 shall be awarded to school  districts  within  that
19    region that meet applicable eligibility and project standards
20    and  otherwise comply with the provisions of this Article, in
21    accordance with the priority order determined  by  the  State
22    Board of Education under this Article for school construction
23    projects that are based upon the approved district facilities
24    plans of those school districts.
25        (c)  No  portion  of  a school construction project grant
26    awarded by the Capital Development Board shall be used  by  a
27    school district for any on-going operational costs.
28    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
29        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
30    becoming law.

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