Full Text of HB2013 95th General Assembly
HB2013 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB2013
Introduced 2/26/2007, by Rep. Michael K. Smith SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/14-13.01 |
from Ch. 122, par. 14-13.01 |
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Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. In a Section concerning personnel reimbursement, provides that when a school district operates a school or program for a number of days in excess of the adopted school calendar but not to exceed 235 school days, reimbursement shall be increased by 1/180 (instead of 1/185) of the amount or rate paid under the reimbursement provisions for each day the school is operated in excess of 180 (instead of 185) days per calendar year. Effective July 1, 2007.
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 14-13.01 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/14-13.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 14-13.01)
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| Sec. 14-13.01. Reimbursement payable by State; Amounts. | 8 |
| Reimbursement for furnishing special educational facilities in | 9 |
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recognized school to the type of children defined in Section | 10 |
| 14-1.02
shall be paid to the school districts in accordance | 11 |
| with Section 14-12.01
for each school year ending June 30 by | 12 |
| the State Comptroller out of any money
in the treasury | 13 |
| appropriated for such purposes on the presentation of vouchers
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| by the State Board of Education.
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| The reimbursement shall be limited to funds expended for | 16 |
| construction
and maintenance of special education facilities | 17 |
| designed and utilized to
house instructional programs, | 18 |
| diagnostic services, other special
education services for | 19 |
| children with disabilities and
reimbursement as
provided in | 20 |
| Section 14-13.01. There shall be no reimbursement for
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| construction and maintenance of any administrative facility | 22 |
| separated
from special education facilities designed and | 23 |
| utilized to house
instructional programs, diagnostic services |
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| and other special education
services for children with | 2 |
| disabilities.
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| (a) For children who have not been identified as eligible | 4 |
| for special
education and for eligible children with physical
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| disabilities, including all
eligible children whose placement | 6 |
| has been determined under Section 14-8.02 in
hospital or home | 7 |
| instruction, 1/2 of the teacher's salary but not more than
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| $1,000 annually per child or $8,000 per teacher for the | 9 |
| 1985-1986 school year
and thereafter, whichever is less. | 10 |
| Children
to be included in any reimbursement under this | 11 |
| paragraph must regularly
receive a minimum of one hour of | 12 |
| instruction each school day, or in lieu
thereof of a minimum of | 13 |
| 5 hours of instruction in each school week in
order to qualify | 14 |
| for full reimbursement under this Section. If the
attending | 15 |
| physician for such a child has certified that the child should
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| not receive as many as 5 hours of instruction in a school week, | 17 |
| however,
reimbursement under this paragraph on account of that | 18 |
| child shall be
computed proportionate to the actual hours of | 19 |
| instruction per week for
that child divided by 5.
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| (b) For children described in Section 14-1.02, 4/5 of the | 21 |
| cost of
transportation for each such child, whom the State | 22 |
| Superintendent of
Education determined in advance requires | 23 |
| special transportation service
in order to take advantage of | 24 |
| special educational facilities.
Transportation costs shall be | 25 |
| determined in the same fashion as provided
in Section 29-5. For | 26 |
| purposes of this subsection (b), the dates for
processing |
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| claims specified in Section 29-5 shall apply.
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| (c) For each professional worker excluding those included | 3 |
| in
subparagraphs (a), (d), (e), and (f) of this Section, the | 4 |
| annual sum of
$8,000 for the 1985-1986 school year and | 5 |
| thereafter.
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| (d) For one full time qualified director of the special | 7 |
| education
program of each school district which maintains a | 8 |
| fully approved program
of special education the annual sum of | 9 |
| $8,000 for the 1985-1986 school
year and thereafter. Districts | 10 |
| participating in a joint agreement special
education program | 11 |
| shall not receive such reimbursement if reimbursement is made
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| for a director of the joint agreement program.
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| (e) For each school psychologist as defined in Section | 14 |
| 14-1.09 the
annual sum of $8,000 for the 1985-1986 school year | 15 |
| and thereafter.
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| (f) For each qualified teacher working in a fully approved | 17 |
| program
for children of preschool age who are deaf or | 18 |
| hard-of-hearing the annual
sum of $8,000 for the 1985-1986 | 19 |
| school year and thereafter.
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| (g) For readers, working with blind or partially seeing | 21 |
| children 1/2
of their salary but not more than $400 annually | 22 |
| per child. Readers may
be employed to assist such children and | 23 |
| shall not be required to be
certified but prior to employment | 24 |
| shall meet standards set up by the
State Board of Education.
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| (h) For necessary non-certified employees working in any | 26 |
| class or
program for children defined in this Article, 1/2 of |
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| the salary paid or
$2,800 annually per employee, whichever is | 2 |
| less.
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| The State Board of Education shall set standards and | 4 |
| prescribe rules
for determining the allocation of | 5 |
| reimbursement under this section on
less than a full time basis | 6 |
| and for less than a school year.
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| When any school district eligible for reimbursement under | 8 |
| this
Section operates a school or program approved by the State
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| Superintendent of Education for a number of days in excess of | 10 |
| the
adopted school calendar but not to exceed 235 school days, | 11 |
| such
reimbursement shall be increased by 1/180
1/185 of the | 12 |
| amount or rate paid
hereunder for each day such school is | 13 |
| operated in excess of 180
185 days per
calendar year.
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| Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school | 15 |
| district receiving
a payment under this Section or under | 16 |
| Section 14-7.02, 14-7.02b, or
29-5 of this Code may classify | 17 |
| all or a portion of the funds that it receives
in a particular | 18 |
| fiscal year or from general State aid pursuant to Section
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| 18-8.05 of this Code as
funds received in connection with any | 20 |
| funding program for which it is
entitled to receive funds from | 21 |
| the State in that fiscal year (including,
without limitation, | 22 |
| any funding program referenced in this Section),
regardless of | 23 |
| the source or timing of the receipt. The district may not
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| classify more funds as funds received in connection with the | 25 |
| funding
program than the district is entitled to receive in | 26 |
| that fiscal year for that
program. Any
classification by a |
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| district must be made by a resolution of its board of
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| education. The resolution must identify the amount of any | 3 |
| payments or
general State aid to be classified under this | 4 |
| paragraph and must specify
the funding program to which the | 5 |
| funds are to be treated as received in
connection therewith. | 6 |
| This resolution is controlling as to the
classification of | 7 |
| funds referenced therein. A certified copy of the
resolution | 8 |
| must be sent to the State Superintendent of Education.
The | 9 |
| resolution shall still take effect even though a copy of the | 10 |
| resolution has
not been sent to the State
Superintendent of | 11 |
| Education in a timely manner.
No
classification under this | 12 |
| paragraph by a district shall affect the total amount
or timing | 13 |
| of money the district is entitled to receive under this Code.
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| No classification under this paragraph by a district shall
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| any way relieve the district from or affect any
requirements | 16 |
| that otherwise would apply with respect to
that funding | 17 |
| program, including any
accounting of funds by source, reporting | 18 |
| expenditures by
original source and purpose,
reporting | 19 |
| requirements,
or requirements of providing services.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-568, eff. 6-26-02; 93-1022, eff. 8-24-04.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 22 |
| 2007.
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