96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB4121

 

Introduced 2/27/2009, by Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/1C-2

    Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning an early childhood education block grant.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning education.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
5 1C-2 as follows:
 
6     (105 ILCS 5/1C-2)
7     Sec. 1C-2. Block grants.
8     (a) For fiscal year 1999, and and each fiscal year
9 thereafter, the State Board of Education shall award to school
10 districts block grants as described in subsection (c). The
11 State Board of Education may adopt rules and regulations
12 necessary to implement this Section. In accordance with Section
13 2-3.32, all state block grants are subject to an audit.
14 Therefore, block grant receipts and block grant expenditures
15 shall be recorded to the appropriate fund code.
16     (b) (Blank).
17     (c) An Early Childhood Education Block Grant shall be
18 created by combining the following programs: Preschool
19 Education, Parental Training and Prevention Initiative. These
20 funds shall be distributed to school districts and other
21 entities on a competitive basis. Eleven percent of this grant
22 shall be used to fund programs for children ages 0-3.
23 (Source: P.A. 95-793, eff. 1-1-09.)