Elementary & Secondary Education Committee

Filed: 5/19/2005

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 176

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 176 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
5 11A-2 as follows:
 
6     (105 ILCS 5/11A-2)  (from Ch. 122, par. 11A-2)
7     Sec. 11A-2. Organization of community unit districts;
8 territorial requirement. (1) Any Any contiguous and compact
9 territory of at least $12,000,000 equalized assessed valuation
10 and having a population of not less than 4,000 and not more
11 than 500,000, no part of which is included within any unit
12 district, may be organized into a community unit school
13 district as provided in this Article; (2) the territory of 2 or
14 more entire unit school districts that are contiguous to each
15 other and the territory of which taken as a whole is compact
16 may be organized into a community unit school district as
17 provided in this Article; or (3) the territory of one or more
18 entire unit school districts that are contiguous to each other
19 plus any contiguous and compact territory, no part of which is
20 included within any unit district, and the territory of which
21 taken as a whole is compact may be organized into a community
22 unit school district as provided in this Article; however, a
23 petition or petitions may be filed hereunder proposing to
24 divide a unit school district into 2 or more parts and

 

 

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1 proposing to include all of such parts in 2 or more community
2 unit districts. As used in this Section, a unit school district
3 includes, but is not limited to, a special charter unit school
4 district.
5     The regional superintendent shall not accept for filing
6 hereunder any petition which includes therein any territory
7 already included as part of the territory described in another
8 petition filed hereunder. Hearings on a petition filed
9 hereunder shall not be commenced so long as any part of the
10 territory described therein shall include territory described,
11 whether by amendment or otherwise, in another petition filed
12 hereunder. A petition may be filed hereunder which contains
13 less than the required minimum equalized assessed valuation or
14 population requirements provided that such a petition shall not
15 be approved by the regional superintendent and State
16 Superintendent unless it is determined: (1) that there is a
17 compelling reason for granting the petition; (2) that the
18 territory involved cannot currently be organized as part of a
19 petition which meets the minimum requirements; (3) that the
20 granting of the petition will not interfere with the ultimate
21 reorganization of the territory into a school district which
22 meets the minimum requirements; (4) that the granting of the
23 petition is in the best educational interests of the pupils
24 affected; and (5) that the granting of the petition is
25 financially beneficial to the affected school districts.
26 (Source: P.A. 88-555, eff. 7-27-94.)".