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91_HB2020
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section 7-2b
2 and repealing Section 2-3.105a.
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 7-2b as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/7-2b) (from Ch. 122, par. 7-2b)
8 Sec. 7-2b. Annexation of non-coterminous territory from
9 an elementary or high school district.
10 (a) Any contiguous portion of a high school district
11 that constitutes 5% 10% or less of the equalized assessed
12 value of the district shall upon petition of two-thirds of
13 the registered voters of the territory proposed to be
14 detached and annexed be so detached and annexed by the
15 regional board of school trustees State Board of Education if
16 granting such petition shall make the affected segment of the
17 boundaries of the high school district the territory is
18 proposed to be annexed to identical, for the entirety of such
19 affected segment, to the boundaries of the elementary school
20 district in which the territory is located.
21 Any contiguous portion of an elementary school district
22 that constitutes 5% 10% or less of the equalized assessed
23 value of the district shall upon petition of two-thirds of
24 the registered voters of the territory proposed to be
25 detached and annexed be so detached and annexed by the
26 regional board of school trustees State Board of Education if
27 granting such petition shall make the affected segment of the
28 boundaries of the elementary school district the territory is
29 proposed to be annexed to identical, for the entirety of such
30 affected segment, to the boundaries of the high school
31 district in which the territory is located.
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1 The regional board of school trustees State Board of
2 Education shall have no authority or discretion to hear any
3 evidence or consider any issues except those that may be
4 necessary to determine whether the limitations and conditions
5 of this Section have been met.
6 No district may lose more than 5% of its equalized
7 assessed value through petitions filed under this Section.
8 If a petition seeks to detach territory that would result in
9 a cumulative total of more than 5% of a district's equalized
10 assessed value being detached under this Section, the
11 petition shall be denied without prejudice to its being filed
12 pursuant to Section 7-6 of this Code.
13 (b) At any time prior to the granting of the petition
14 calling for the detachment and annexation of non-coterminous
15 territory under this Section, the Committee of Ten designated
16 in the petition may amend the petition to withdraw the
17 detachment and annexation proposal and substitute in its
18 place a proposal to require the school district from which
19 the territory would have been detached to pay the per capita
20 tuition costs for each pupil residing in the non-coterminous
21 territory to attend the school district to which the
22 territory would have been annexed. If such amended petition
23 is granted, the school district from which the territory
24 would have been detached shall pay to the school district to
25 which the territory would have been annexed the per capita
26 tuition costs as determined under Section 10-20. 12a for each
27 pupil residing in the territory who chooses to attend the
28 school district to which the territory would have been
29 annexed. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10-22.5,
30 the school district to which the territory would have been
31 annexed shall admit any pupil that resides in the
32 non-coterminous territory and provide such pupils with any
33 services of the school. The payment and collection of
34 tuition and any other such matters as may need to be resolved
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1 shall be established by an intergovernmental agreement
2 developed between the two affected school districts. Section
3 7-6 of this Code shall apply to petitions filed under this
4 Section except as otherwise provided in this Section.
5 (Source: P.A. 88-386; 89-397, eff. 8-20-95.)
6 (105 ILCS 5/2-3.105a rep.)
7 Section 10. The School Code is amended by repealing
8 Section 2-3.105a.