House Sponsors: DANIELS-WINKEL-RIGHTER-KLINGLER-KOSEL, JONES,JOHN, TENHOUSE, NOLAND, HOEFT, LAWFER, POE AND BIGGERT. Senate Sponsors: WATSON-KARPIEL-BERMAN-FARLEY-KLEMM Short description: SCHOOLS-FAIR-EQUITABLE FUNDING Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Creates An Act to create a fair and equitable funding formula for schools. Supplies only the Short Title of the Act. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Deletes reference to: New Act Adds reference to: 105 ILCS 5/17-2 from Ch. 122, par. 17-2 105 ILCS 5/17-2.2a from Ch. 122, par. 17-2.2a 105 ILCS 5/17-2.11 from Ch. 122, par. 17-2.11 105 ILCS 5/17-3 from Ch. 122, par. 17-3 105 ILCS 5/17-3.2 from Ch. 122, par. 17-3.2 105 ILCS 5/17-5.1 from Ch. 122, par. 17-5.1 105 ILCS 5/17-7 from Ch. 122, par. 17-7 105 ILCS 5/17-8 from Ch. 122, par. 17-8 105 ILCS 5/17-16 from Ch. 122, par. 17-16 105 ILCS 5/17-11 from Ch. 122, par. 17-11 105 ILCS 5/17-12 from Ch. 122, par. 17-12 105 ILCS 5/20-2 from Ch. 122, par. 20-2 105 ILCS 5/20-3 from Ch. 122, par. 20-3 105 ILCS 5/35-23 from Ch. 122, par. 35-23 105 ILCS 5/17-2.2 rep. 105 ILCS 5/17-2A rep. 105 ILCS 5/17-4 rep. 105 ILCS 5/17-5 rep. 105 ILCS 5/17-6.1 rep. 105 ILCS 5/17-9.01 rep. Changes the title and replaces everything after the enacting clause. Adds provisions amending the School Code. For school districts with a population of less than 500,000 eliminates provisions for separate educational, operations and maintenance, transportation, working cash fund, and special education purposes tax levies and provides instead for a general operating fund levy to support those purposes. Provides that the rate of a district's general operating tax fund levy shall be the sum of the maximum rates at which the district was authorized by statute or referendum to levy taxes immediately before the amendatory Act's effective date for its educational, operations and maintenance, transportation, working cash, and special education funds. Provides for transfer of moneys from the general operating fund to the individual purpose funds and for transfer among the individual purpose funds as determined by the school board. Authorizes increases in the general operating fund levy rate, subject to certain limits, for certain purposes pursuant to referendum. Repeals various provisions of the Article of the School Code relating to school district tax levies, including provisions inconsistent with the changes proposed by the amendatory Act and provisions authorizing a supplemental tax levy by certain districts. Effective immediately. FISCAL NOTE, H-AM 1 (State Board of Education) There would be no fiscal impact on SBE for staffing. Modifica- tion of local districts' systems (assuming 850 districts) would total $850,000. A State database would cost SBE $50,000. STATE MANDATES NOTE, H-AM 1 (State Board of Education) No change from SBE fiscal note. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Deletes reference to: 105 ILCS 5/17-2.2a Adds reference to: 105 ILCS 17-2.11 105 ILCS 17-3 105 ILCS 17-3.2 105 ILCS 17-5.1 105 ILCS 17-7 105 ILCS 17-8 105 ILCS 17-11 105 ILCS 17-12 105 ILCS 17-16 105 ILCS 20-2 105 ILCS 20-3 105 ILCS 35-23 Changes the title and deletes all substantive changes proposed by the engrossed bill. Makes technical changes in a Section of the School Code relating to the levy of taxes by downstate school districts. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 3. Deletes reference to: 105 ILCS 5/17-2 Adds reference to: New Act 20 ILCS 3105/Art. rep. 30 ILCS 105/5.500 new 30 ILCS 105/5.505 new 30 ILCS 105/6z-45 new 40 ILCS 5/17-108 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 17-108 40 ILCS 5/17-127 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 17-127 40 ILCS 5/17-129 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 17-129 105 ILCS 5/1A-2 from Ch. 122, par. 1A-2 105 ILCS 5/1A-4 from Ch. 122, par. 1A-4 105 ILCS 5/1B-8 from Ch. 122, par. 1B-8 105 ILCS 5/1C-2 105 ILCS 5/2-3.51 from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.51 105 ILCS 5/2-3.51.5 105 ILCS 5/2-3.117a new 105 ILCS 5/2-3.124 new 105 ILCS 5/7-11 from Ch. 122, par. 7-11 105 ILCS 5/10-20.9a from Ch. 122, par. 10-20.9a 105 ILCS 5/10-20.30 new 105 ILCS 5/10-22.6 from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.6 105 ILCS 5/10-22.20 from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.20 105 ILCS 5/10-22.23 from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.23 105 ILCS 5/10-22.34c new 105 ILCS 5/10-23.5 from Ch. 122, par. 10-23.5 105 ILCS 5/10-23.8 from Ch. 122, par. 10-23.8 105 ILCS 5/10-23.8a from Ch. 122, par. 10-23.8a 105 ILCS 5/17-1.5 new 105 ILCS 5/18-4.3 from Ch. 122, par. 18-4.3 105 ILCS 5/18-7 from Ch. 122, par. 18-7 105 ILCS 5/18-8 from Ch. 122, par. 18-8 105 ILCS 5/18-8.05 new 105 ILCS 5/18-8.2 from Ch. 122, par. 18-8.2 105 ILCS 5/21-0.01 new 105 ILCS 5/21-1a from Ch. 122, par. 21-1a 105 ILCS 5/21-2 from Ch. 122, par. 21-2 105 ILCS 5/21-2.1 from Ch. 122, par. 21-2.1 105 ILCS 5/21-2a from Ch. 122, par. 21-2a 105 ILCS 5/21-3 from Ch. 122, par. 21-3 105 ILCS 5/21-4 from Ch. 122, par. 21-4 105 ILCS 5/21-5 from Ch. 122, par. 21-5 105 ILCS 5/21-5a from Ch. 122, par. 21-5a 105 ILCS 5/21-5c new 105 ILCS 5/21-5d new 105 ILCS 5/21-10 from Ch. 122, par. 21-10 105 ILCS 5/21-11.1 from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.1 105 ILCS 5/21-11.3 from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.3 105 ILCS 5/21-11.4 105 ILCS 5/21-14 from Ch. 122, par. 21-14 105 ILCS 5/24-11 from Ch. 122, par. 24-11 105 ILCS 5/24A-5 from Ch. 122, par. 24A-5 105 ILCS 5/27A-2 105 ILCS 5/27A-7 105 ILCS 5/27A-8 105 ILCS 5/27A-9 105 ILCS 5/27A-11 105 ILCS 5/34-8.4 105 ILCS 5/34-18 from Ch. 122, par. 34-18 105 ILCS 5/34-18.17 new 105 ILCS 5/34-84 from Ch. 122, par. 34-84 115 ILCS 5/5 from Ch. 48, par. 1705 115 ILCS 5/13 from Ch. 48, par. 1713 35 ILCS 130/2 from Ch. 120, par. 453.2 35 ILCS 135/2 from Ch. 120, par. 453.32 35 ILCS 630/3 from Ch. 120, par. 2003 35 ILCS 630/4 from Ch. 120, par. 2004 35 ILCS 630/6 from Ch. 120, par. 2006 35 ILCS 735/3-3 from Ch. 120, par. 2603-3 230 ILCS 10/13 from Ch. 120, par. 2413 Changes the title, deletes everything after the enacting clause, and adds provisions creating the School Construction Act. Repeals an Article of the Capital Development Board Act relating to school construction and debt service grants, and amends the State Finance Act incident thereto. Authorizes the Capital Development Board to make grants to school districts for school construction projects. Authorizes the State Board of Education to accept applications, to make grant entitlements, and to award grants for debt service. Specifies certain grant priorities and requires participants to develop and update district facilities plans. Authorizes the State Board of Education to administer a program of revolving loans to school districts for the acquisition of technology hardware. Amends the Chicago Teachers Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Changes the fiscal and school year to the period beginning on the 1st day of July and ending on the 30th day of June. Provides that revenues for the Public School Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund shall include employer contributions. Provides for State satisfaction of deficiencies in the Fund for the fiscal year of the board of education ending in calendar year 1997. Provides that contributions by the State to or for the benefit of the Fund shall be a credit against contributions required of the board of education. Amends the School Code to provide for the direct payment of State contributions to the Fund, and makes numerous other changes to the School Code. Revises State Board of Education member qualifications. Establishes administrative expenditure limitations applicable in downstate school districts. Requires the State Superintendent of Education to serve pursuant to a performance-based contract linked to statewide student performance and academic improvement in Illinois schools. Provides for block grants to downstate school districts. Makes changes to the Reading Improvement Program provisions. Requires the State Board of Education to provide liability coverage for certificated school employees. Adds requirements for decisions to promote or retain students in classes and establishes a no pass-no play policy. Provides that suspension or expulsion of a student from school may extend to all school activities and may include a prohibition from being present on school grounds. Allows school districts to employ non-certificated registered professional nurses to perform professional nursing services. Also permits school boards to contract with third parties for non-instructional services currently performed by school district employees or bargaining unit members. Reduces the number of days of advance notice required for the honorable dismissal of educational support personnel. Provides that new contracts for downstate superintendents and principals shall be either contracts for a period not exceeding one year or performance-based contracts that do not exceed 5 years. Increases to 4 years from 3 years the period during which supplementary State aid for new and certain annexing districts may be paid based on differences in aggregate employee salaries. Revises the State aid formula as applied to the 1997-98 school year to provide for an alternative method of computing the supplemental State aid grant for that school year and to provide for an additional supplemental State aid grant for that school year only based on the number of low-income eligible pupils in the district. Repeals the Section containing the State aid formula for school years prior to the 1998-99 school year on July 1, 1998, and replaces the repealed Section with a new Section containing a new State aid formula for the 1998-1999 and subsequent school years. Revises the provisions for certification of teachers, providing for initial, standard, and master teaching certificates. Establishes new alternative teacher and administrator certification programs. Increases to 4 years the length of the probationary period for teachers first employed by a school district after January 1, 1998. Shortens the notice period applicable to certain dismissals and reductions in force. Revises provisions applicable to the length of the remediation period for downstate teachers. Makes numerous changes to the Charter Schools Law in the School Code, including changes that authorize the State Board of Education to reverse the decision of a local school board if the State Board determines that a charter school or charter school proposal complies with the requirements of the Charter Schools Law. Also amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act, increasing the number of Illinois Educational Labor Relation Board members to 5 and increasing to 10 from 5 the number of days that must elapse after a notice of intent to strike is given before a strike may begin. Amends the Cigarette and Cigarette Use Tax Acts to increase the rate of tax imposed by those Acts by an additional 7 mills per cigarette beginning 12/15/97 and earmarks the additional revenue attributable to the increase for monthly payment into the Common School Fund. Amends the Telecommunications Excise Tax Act to increase the rates of the taxes imposed thereunder to 7% from 5% of the gross charge beginning January 1, 1998, and requires the additional taxes resulting from the increase to be paid into the Common School Fund or the Common School Fund and the School Infrastructure Fund. Amends the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act to increase to 20% from 15% the penalty applicable, beginning January 1, 1998, for failure to pay a tax due on a return. Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Replaces beginning January 1, 1998 the wagering tax with a graduated tax based on adjusted gross receipts received by a licensed owner, and changes the percentage of the monthly amount appropriated to the unit of local government that is the home dock of the riverboat. Provides for funding, through a continuing appropriation if necessary, of specified provisions of the General State Aid Formula. Adds language relating to the severability and inseverability of various provisions of the Act. Effective immediately except as otherwise provided. Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 90-0548 Last action date: 97-12-04 Location: House Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 1 SENATE - 2 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status