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 1        AN ACT regarding schools.

 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
 5    Section 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  contiguous and compact
 9    territory  of  at  least   $12,000,000   equalized   assessed
10    valuation  and having a population of not less than 4,000 and
11    not more than 500,000, no part of which  is  included  within
12    any  unit  district,  may  be organized into a community unit
13    school  district  as  provided  in  this  Article;  (2)   the
14    territory  of 2 or more entire unit school districts that are
15    contiguous to each other and the territory of which taken  as
16    a  whole  is  compact  may be organized into a community unit
17    school district as provided  in  this  Article;  or  (3)  the
18    territory  of  one  or more entire unit school districts that
19    are contiguous to each other plus any contiguous and  compact
20    territory,  no  part  of  which  is  included within any unit
21    district, and the territory of which  taken  as  a  whole  is
22    compact  may  be  organized  into  a  community  unit  school
23    district  as provided in this Article; however, a petition or
24    petitions may be filed hereunder proposing to divide  a  unit
25    school district into 2 or more parts and proposing to include
26    all  of such parts in 2 or more community unit districts.  As
27    used in this Section, a unit school district includes, but is
28    not limited to, a special charter unit school district.
29        The territory of a high school district and  all  of  the
30    elementary  school  districts included within the high school
31    district must be  organized  into  a  community  unit  school
 
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 1    district  within  3  years  after  the effective date of this
 2    amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.  If  not,  these
 3    districts  shall no longer be entitled to State reimbursement
 4    for   categorical   programs,   except   federally   mandated
 5    categorical programs, notwithstanding any other provision  of
 6    law.
 7        The  regional  superintendent shall not accept for filing
 8    hereunder any petition which includes therein  any  territory
 9    already  included  as  part  of  the  territory  described in
10    another petition filed hereunder.   Hearings  on  a  petition
11    filed hereunder shall not be commenced so long as any part of
12    the  territory  described  therein  shall  include  territory
13    described,  whether  by  amendment  or  otherwise, in another
14    petition filed hereunder.  A petition may be filed  hereunder
15    which  contains  less  than  the  required  minimum equalized
16    assessed valuation or population requirements  provided  that
17    such  a  petition  shall  not  be  approved  by  the regional
18    superintendent  and  State  Superintendent   unless   it   is
19    determined:   (1)  that  there  is  a  compelling  reason for
20    granting the petition; (2) that the territory involved cannot
21    currently be organized as part of a petition which meets  the
22    minimum  requirements;  (3) that the granting of the petition
23    will not interfere with the ultimate  reorganization  of  the
24    territory  into  a  school  district  which meets the minimum
25    requirements; (4) that the granting of the petition is in the
26    best educational interests of the pupils  affected;  and  (5)
27    that  the  granting of the petition is financially beneficial
28    to the affected school districts.
29    (Source: P.A. 88-555, eff. 7-27-94.)

30        Section 90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by  adding
31    Section 8.27 as follows:

32        (30 ILCS 805/8.27 new)
 
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 1        Sec.  8.27.  Exempt  mandate.  Notwithstanding Sections 6
 2    and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is  required
 3    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
 4    amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.