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                                     LRB093 04789 EFG 12929 a

 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2105

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 2105  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section   5.   The  School  Code  is amended by changing
 5    Section 11A-9 as follows:

 6        (105 ILCS 5/11A-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 11A-9)
 7        Sec. 11A-9.  Tax levy.   The  board  of  education  of  a
 8    community  unit  district  may  levy  taxes  for educational,
 9    operations and maintenance and the purchase and  improvements
10    of  school grounds, pupil transportation, and fire prevention
11    and safety purposes, respectively, at not exceeding the rates
12    specified in the petition,  which  rates  may  thereafter  be
13    increased  or  decreased  in  the  same manner and within the
14    limits provided by Sections 17-2 through 17-7.  The board  of
15    education  may  further  levy  taxes  for  other  purposes as
16    generally permitted by law.
17        If the election of the board  of  education  of  the  new
18    district  occurs  at  the general election or the nonpartisan
19    election (or the consolidated election beginning in 2003) and
20    the board of education makes its initial levy  in  that  same
21    year, the county clerk shall extend such levy notwithstanding
22    any  other law which requires the adoption of a budget before
 
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 1    the clerk may extend such levy.  In addition,  the  districts
 2    from which the new district is formed, by joint agreement and
 3    with  the  approval  of the regional superintendent, shall be
 4    permitted to amend outstanding levies in  the  same  calendar
 5    year in which the creation of the new district is approved at
 6    the rates specified in the petition.
 7        If  the  election  of  the  board of education of the new
 8    district does not occur in the same calendar  year  that  the
 9    proposition  to  create  the  new  district  is approved, the
10    districts from which the new district  is  formed,  by  joint
11    agreement   and   with   the   approval   of   the   regional
12    superintendent,  shall  be  permitted  to  levy  in  the same
13    calendar year in which the creation of the  new  district  is
14    approved  at the rates specified in the petition.  The county
15    clerks shall extend any such  levy  notwithstanding  any  law
16    that  requires  adoption  of a budget before extension of the
17    levy.
18    (Source: P.A. 87-10; 87-1215; 88-686, eff. 1-24-95.)

19        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
20    becoming law.".