90th General Assembly
Summary of SB1599
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Senate Sponsors:
BUTLER.

House Sponsors:
WINKEL-MITCHELL-MAUTINO-CURRIE-BOLAND

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SCH CD-ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS                                                

Synopsis of Bill as introduced:
        Amends the School Code.  Requires the State Board of Education to      
   annually cause an audit to be made of the financial statements of  all      
   accounts,  funds, and moneys of all educational service centers (other      
   than those of an educational service center serving a school  district      
   located  in Chicago) in the same manner as such audits are made of the      
   financial statements of the accounts, funds, and moneys in  the  care,      
   custody,   or   control   of   regional   superintendents.   Effective      
   immediately.                                                                
        HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1.                                                 
          Adds reference to:                                                   
          105 ILCS 5/2-3.66               from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.66            
          105 ILCS 5/10-22.20             from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.20          
          105 ILCS 5/13A-8                                                     
          105 ILCS 5/18-8.05                                                   
        Further amends the School Code.   Permits  school  districts  and      
   regional  offices of education to claim general State aid for students      
   enrolled in truants' alternative and optional education  programs,  if      
   those  students  are  receiving  services  supplemental  to  a program      
   leading to a high school diploma and  are  otherwise  eligible  to  be      
   claimed  for  general  State  aid.  Provides  that  a  school district      
   claiming reimbursement for providing services under an approved  adult      
   education  program may also claim general State aid for those students      
   in the program who are under age  21,  who  are  enrolled  in  courses      
   accepted  for  graduation  from  elementary  or  high  school, and who      
   otherwise meet the requirements  of  the  general  State  aid  formula      
   applicable  to  Illinois  school  districts. Establishes a formula for      
   providing funding for alternative school programs operated  under  the      
   Safe  Schools  Law.   From  amounts  annually  appropriated  for  such      
   alternative  school  programs  provides that each program will receive      
   $30,000 plus an additional amount based on  average  daily  attendance      
   and  low-income  eligible  pupil counts.  Provides for a hold-harmless      
   level of funding for FY 99 with distributions for FY 98 serving as the      
   base year.  Authorizes the State Board of Education to  retain  up  to      
   1.1%   of  the  funding  provided  during  the  fiscal  year  for  the      
   alternative school programs for use in assisting in the implementation      
   of and  in  evaluating  those  programs.  In  the  State  aid  formula      
   applicable to alternative schools in the 1998-99 and subsequent school      
   years,  authorizes  a  regional  superintendent of schools to contract      
   with a school district or  public  community  college  to  operate  an      
   alternative school, and provides that alternative schools serving more      
   than  one  educational service region may be operated under such terms      
   as the regional superintendents of those  regions  may  agree.   These      
   provisions effective July 1, 1998.                                          
        HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 2.                                                 
          Adds reference to:                                                   
          105 ILCS 5/1A-8                 from Ch. 122, par. 1A-8              
          105 ILCS 5/1B-8                 from Ch. 122, par. 1B-8              
        Changes the title and further amends the School Code.  Authorizes      
   the State Board of Education to certify a school  district  to  be  in      
   financial  difficulty if the district previously has been so certified      
   and requests to be recertified due to continuing  financial  problems.      
   Authorizes  appropriations  to  the  State Board of Education from the      
   School District Emergency Financial Assistance Fund  for  distribution      
   to  school  districts  as  emergency  financial  assistance  grants in      
   amounts not exceeding $250  per  enrolled  pupil,  and  provides  that      
   districts   may  receive  emergency  financial  assistance  loans  (as      
   permitted under current law) as well as emergency financial assistance      
   grants.                                                                     
          FISCAL NOTE, H-AMS 1 & 2 (State Board of Education)                  
          Fiscal impact: ISC audits, $45,000; increased general State          
          Aid, negligible; hold harmless provisions, $110,000 to               
          $350,000; financial difficulty amendatory language, as much as       
          $56,250,000 to 20 eligible decertified districts.                    
          STATE MANDATES FISCAL NOTE, H-AMS 1 & 2 (SBE)                        
          No change from SBE fiscal note, H-ams 1 & 2.                         
        HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 3.                                                 
        Changes the interest rate  payable  on  approved  loans  made  to      
   school   districts   from  the  School  District  Emergency  Financial      
   Assistance Fund from a simple interest rate of 4% to a simple interest      
   rate equal to 50% of the discount rate on one-year U.S. Treasury Bills      
   as determined by the last auction of those  bills  that  precedes  the      
   date  on  which  a  district's  loan is approved by the State Board of      
   Education.                                                                  
        HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 4.                                                 
        In  the  provisions  of  the  State  aid  formula  applicable  to      
   alternative schools beginning on July 1,  1998,  replaces  a  proposal      
   under  which  an  alternative school serving more than one educational      
   service region could be operated under  such  terms  as  the  regional      
   superintendents  of  those  regions agree with a proposal to authorize      
   such  an  alternative  school  to  be  established  by  the   regional      
   superintendents of the regions to be served by that school.                 
        GOVERNOR'S AMENDATORY VETO MESSAGE                                     
        In the provision allowing the State Board of Education to certify      
   a school district to be in financial difficulty if the district             
   previously has been so certified and requests to be recertified due         
   to continuing financial problems, recommends limiting the provision         
   to districts that had an enrollment of no fewer than 4,000 pupils           
   during the 1997-1998 school year. Recommends that no recertification        
   be made under the provision after December 31, 1999.                        
 
Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 90-0802

   Last action date: 98-12-15

           Location: Senate

 Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE -   4     SENATE -   0


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