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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 995

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 995  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN ACT concerning regional superintendents of schools.";
 5    and

 6    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 7    following:

 8        "Section 5.  The  School  Code  is  amended  by  changing
 9    Section 3-2.5 as follows:

10        (105 ILCS 5/3-2.5)
11        Sec. 3-2.5. Salaries.
12        (a)  Except   as   otherwise  provided  in  this  Section
13    subsection (b), the regional superintendents of schools shall
14    receive for their services an annual salary according to  the
15    population,  as  determined  by  the  last  preceding federal
16    census, of the region they serve, as set out in the following
17    schedule:
18    SALARIES OF REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF
19    SCHOOLS
20        POPULATION OF REGION                        ANNUAL SALARY
21        Less than 48,000                          $73,500 $66,000
 
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 1        48,000 to 99,999                          $78,000 $70,500
 2        100,000 to 999,999                        $81,500 $74,000
 3        1,000,000 and over                        $83,500 $76,000
 4        The changes made by Public Act 86-98 in the annual salary
 5    that the regional superintendents of  schools  shall  receive
 6    for  their services shall apply to the annual salary received
 7    by the regional superintendents of  schools  during  each  of
 8    their  elected  terms  of office that commence after July 26,
 9    1989 and before the first Monday of August, 1995.
10        The changes made by  Public  Act  89-225  in  the  annual
11    salary that regional superintendents of schools shall receive
12    for  their services shall apply to the annual salary received
13    by the regional superintendents of  schools  during  each  of
14    their  elected  terms of office that commence after August 4,
15    1995 and end on August 1, 1999.
16        The changes made by  this  amendatory  Act  of  the  91st
17    General  Assembly  in  the  annual  salary  that the regional
18    superintendents of schools shall receive for  their  services
19    shall  apply  to  the  annual salary received by the regional
20    superintendents of schools during each of their elected terms
21    of office that commence on or after August 2, 1999.
22        Beginning July 1, 2000,  the  salary  that  the  regional
23    superintendent  of  schools  receives for his or her services
24    shall  be  adjusted  annually  to  reflect   the   percentage
25    increase, if any, in the most recent Consumer Price Index, as
26    defined   and   officially  reported  by  the  United  States
27    Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, except  that
28    no  annual  increment  may exceed 2.9%.  If the percentage of
29    change in the Consumer Price Index is a percentage  decrease,
30    the  salary  that  the  regional  superintendent  of  schools
31    receives shall not be adjusted for that year.
32        When  regional  superintendents  are  authorized  by  the
33    School  Code  to  appoint assistant regional superintendents,
34    the assistant regional superintendent shall receive an annual
 
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 1    salary based on his or her qualifications and computed  as  a
 2    percentage  of  the  salary of the regional superintendent to
 3    whom he or she is assistant, as  set  out  in  the  following
 4    schedule:
 5    SALARIES OF ASSISTANT REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS
 6        QUALIFICATIONS OF                    PERCENTAGE OF SALARY
 7        ASSISTANT REGIONAL                            OF REGIONAL
 8        SUPERINTENDENT                             SUPERINTENDENT
 9        No Bachelor's degree, but
10        State certificate valid                             70%
11        for teaching and
12        supervising.
13        Bachelor's degree plus
14        State certificate valid                             75%
15        for supervising.
16        Master's degree plus
17        State certificate valid                             90%
18        for supervising.
19        However,  in  any region in which the appointment of more
20    than one assistant  regional  superintendent  is  authorized,
21    whether  by  Section  3-15.10  of this Code or otherwise, not
22    more than one assistant may be compensated at  the  90%  rate
23    and  any  other  assistant shall be paid at not exceeding the
24    75% rate, in each case depending on the qualifications of the
25    assistant.
26        The  salaries  provided  in  this  Section  for  regional
27    superintendents and assistant  regional  superintendents  are
28    payable  monthly  from  the  Common  School  Fund.  The State
29    Comptroller in making his or her warrant to  any  county  for
30    the  amount  due  it from the Common School Fund shall deduct
31    from it the several amounts  for  which  warrants  have  been
32    issued  to  the  regional  superintendent,  and any assistant
33    regional superintendent, of the  educational  service  region
34    encompassing  the county since the preceding apportionment of
 
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 1    the Common School Fund.
 2        County boards may provide for additional compensation for
 3    the  regional  superintendent  or  the   assistant   regional
 4    superintendents,  or  for  each of them, to be paid quarterly
 5    from the county treasury.
 6        (b)  Upon abolition on July 1, 1994,  of  the  office  of
 7    regional  superintendent  of  schools  in educational service
 8    regions containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants as  provided
 9    in  Section 3-0.01 of this Code, the provisions of subsection
10    (a) of this Section shall no longer apply in any  educational
11    service region in which the office of regional superintendent
12    of   schools   is  so  abolished,  and  no  salary  or  other
13    compensation shall be payable under that  subsection  (a)  or
14    under any other provision of this Section with respect to the
15    office so abolished or with respect to any assistant position
16    to the office so abolished.
17        (c)  If the State pays all or any portion of the employee
18    contributions  required  under Section 16-152 of the Illinois
19    Pension Code for employees of the State Board  of  Education,
20    it  shall  also  pay  the  employee contributions required of
21    regional superintendents of schools  and  assistant  regional
22    superintendents  of  schools on the same basis, but excluding
23    any contributions based on compensation that is paid  by  the
24    county rather than the State.
25        This  subsection  (c)  applies  to contributions based on
26    payments of salary earned after the effective  date  of  this
27    amendatory  Act  of the 91st General Assembly, except that in
28    the case of an elected regional  superintendent  of  schools,
29    this  subsection  does  not  apply  to contributions based on
30    payments of salary  earned  during  a  term  of  office  that
31    commenced before the effective date of this amendatory Act.
32    (Source: P.A.  89-233, eff. 1-1-96; incorporates 89-225, eff.
33    8-4-95; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
 
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 1        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 2    becoming law.".

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