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92_SB0756

 
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 1        AN ACT respecting 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 10-20.12b as follows:

 6        (105 ILCS 5/10-20.12b)
 7        Sec. 10-20.12b.  Residency; payment of tuition;  hearing;
 8    criminal penalty.
 9        (a)  For purposes of this Section:
10             (1)  The residence of a person who has legal custody
11        of  a  pupil  is  deemed  to be the residence of that the
12        pupil.
13             (2)  "Legal custody" means one of the following:
14                  (i)  Custody exercised by a natural or adoptive
15             parent with whom the pupil resides.
16                  (ii)  Custody granted by order of  a  court  of
17             competent  jurisdiction  to  a  person with whom the
18             pupil resides for reasons other than to have  access
19             to the educational programs of the district.
20                  (iii)  Custody   exercised  under  a  statutory
21             short-term guardianship,  provided  that  within  60
22             days  of  the  pupil's  enrollment  a court order is
23             entered that establishes  a  permanent  guardianship
24             and  grants  custody to a person with whom the pupil
25             resides for reasons other than to have access to the
26             educational programs of the district.
27                  (iv)  Custody exercised by an  adult  caretaker
28             relative  who  is  receiving  aid under the Illinois
29             Public Aid Code for the pupil who resides with  that
30             adult  caretaker relative for purposes other than to
31             have access  to  the  educational  programs  of  the
 
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 1             district.
 2                  (v)  Custody   exercised   by   an   adult  who
 3             demonstrates that, in fact, he or  she  has  assumed
 4             and exercises legal responsibility for the pupil and
 5             provides  the  pupil with a regular fixed night-time
 6             abode for purposes other than to have access to  the
 7             educational programs of the district.
 8        (b)  Except as otherwise provided under Section 10-22.5a,
 9    only  resident  pupils  of  a  school district may attend the
10    schools of  the  district  without  payment  of  the  tuition
11    required  to  be  charged  under Section 10-20.12a.  However,
12    children for  whom  the  Guardianship  Administrator  of  the
13    Department of Children and Family Services has been appointed
14    temporary  custodian  or  guardian  of  the person of a child
15    shall not be charged tuition as a nonresident  pupil  if  the
16    child  was  placed  by  the Department of Children and Family
17    Services with a foster parent or placed in  another  type  of
18    child  care  facility  and  the  foster  parent or child care
19    facility is located in  a  school  district  other  than  the
20    child's  former  school  district and it is determined by the
21    Department of Children and  Family  Services  to  be  in  the
22    child's  best  interest  to maintain attendance at his or her
23    former school district.
24        (c)  The provisions of this subsection do  not  apply  in
25    school districts having a population of 500,000 or more. If a
26    school  board  in a school district with a population of less
27    than 500,000 determines that a pupil who is attending  school
28    in  the  district on a tuition free basis is a nonresident of
29    the district for whom tuition is required to be charged under
30    Section 10-20.12a, the board  shall  notify  the  person  who
31    enrolled the pupil of the amount of the tuition charged under
32    Section  10-20.12a  that  is  due  to  the  district  for the
33    nonresident pupil's attendance  in  the  district's  schools.
34    The  notice  shall be given by certified mail, return receipt
 
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 1    requested.  Within 10 days after receipt of the  notice,  the
 2    person who enrolled the pupil may request a hearing to review
 3    the  determination of the school board.  The request shall be
 4    sent by certified mail,  return  receipt  requested,  to  the
 5    district  superintendent. Within 10 days after receipt of the
 6    request, the board shall notify, by  certified  mail,  return
 7    receipt  requested,  the person requesting the hearing of the
 8    time and place of the hearing, which shall be held  not  less
 9    than  10 nor more than 20 days after the notice of hearing is
10    given.  The board or a  hearing  officer  designated  by  the
11    board  shall  conduct  the hearing.  The board and the person
12    who enrolled the pupil may be represented at the  hearing  by
13    representatives  of their choice.  At the hearing, the person
14    who enrolled the pupil shall have the burden of going forward
15    with the evidence concerning the pupil's residency.   If  the
16    hearing  is  conducted  by  a  hearing  officer,  the hearing
17    officer, within 5 days after the conclusion of  the  hearing,
18    shall  send  a  written  report  of  his  or  her findings by
19    certified mail, return receipt requested, to the school board
20    and to the person who enrolled the pupil.    The  person  who
21    enrolled  the  pupil  may,  within 5 days after receiving the
22    findings, file written objections to the  findings  with  the
23    school  board  by  sending  the objections by certified mail,
24    return  receipt  requested,   addressed   to   the   district
25    superintendent.    Whether  the  hearing  is conducted by the
26    school board or a hearing officer, the  school  board  shall,
27    within  15  days  after the conclusion of the hearing, decide
28    whether or not the pupil is a resident of  the  district  and
29    the  amount  of  any  tuition  required  to  be charged under
30    Section 10-20.12a as a result of the  pupil's  attendance  in
31    the  schools  of the district.  The school board shall send a
32    copy of its decision to the person who  enrolled  the  pupil,
33    and the decision of the school board shall be final.
34        (c-5)  The  provisions  of  this subsection apply only in
 
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 1    school districts having a population of 500,000 or more.   If
 2    the board of education of a school district with a population
 3    of  500,000  or more determines that a pupil who is attending
 4    school  in  the  district  on  a  tuition  free  basis  is  a
 5    nonresident of the district for whom tuition is  required  to
 6    be  charged  under  Section 10-20.12a, the board shall notify
 7    the person who enrolled  the  pupil  of  the  amount  of  the
 8    tuition  charged  under  Section 10-20.12a that is due to the
 9    district  for  the  nonresident  pupil's  attendance  in  the
10    district's schools.  The notice shall be given  by  certified
11    mail, return receipt requested.  Within 10 days after receipt
12    of  the notice, the person who enrolled the pupil may request
13    a hearing to review the determination of  the  school  board.
14    The  request  shall be sent by certified mail, return receipt
15    requested, to the district superintendent.   Within  30  days
16    after  receipt  of  the  request,  the board shall notify, by
17    certified  mail,  return  receipt   requested,   the   person
18    requesting  the hearing of the time and place of the hearing,
19    which shall be held not less than 10 nor more  than  30  days
20    after the notice of hearing is given.  The board or a hearing
21    officer  designated  by  the board shall conduct the hearing.
22    The board and the person who enrolled the pupil may  each  be
23    represented  at  the  hearing  by  a  representative of their
24    choice.  At the hearing, the person who  enrolled  the  pupil
25    shall  have  the  burden  of  going forward with the evidence
26    concerning  the  pupil's  residency.   If  the   hearing   is
27    conducted  by  a hearing officer, the hearing officer, within
28    20 days after the conclusion of the hearing,  shall  serve  a
29    written  report of his or her findings by personal service or
30    by certified mail, return receipt requested,  to  the  school
31    board  and  to the person who enrolled the pupil.  The person
32    who enrolled the pupil may, within 10  days  after  receiving
33    the  findings,  file  written objections to the findings with
34    the board of education by sending the objections by certified
 
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 1    mail, return receipt  requested,  addressed  to  the  general
 2    superintendent  of  schools.   If the hearing is conducted by
 3    the board of education, the board shall, within 45 days after
 4    the conclusion of the hearing,  decide  whether  or  not  the
 5    pupil  is  a  resident  of the district and the amount of any
 6    tuition required to be charged under Section 10-20.12a  as  a
 7    result  of  the  pupil's  attendance  in  the  schools of the
 8    district.  If the hearing is conducted by a hearing  officer,
 9    the  board  of  education  shall,  within  45  days after the
10    receipt of the hearing officer's findings, decide whether  or
11    not the pupil is a resident of the district and the amount of
12    any tuition required to be charged under Section 10-20.12a as
13    a  result  of  the  pupil's  attendance in the schools of the
14    district.  The board of education shall  send,  by  certified
15    mail, return receipt requested, a copy of its decision to the
16    person  who enrolled the pupil, and the decision of the board
17    shall be final.
18        (d)  If a hearing is requested under  subsection  (c)  or
19    (c-5)  to  review  the  determination  of the school board or
20    board of education that a nonresident pupil is attending  the
21    schools  of  the  district  without  payment  of  the tuition
22    required to be charged under  Section  10-20.12a,  the  pupil
23    may,  at  the  request  of  a  person who enrolled the pupil,
24    continue attendance at the schools of the district pending  a
25    final  decision of the board following the hearing.  However,
26    attendance of that pupil in the schools of  the  district  as
27    authorized  by  this  subsection  (d)  shall  not relieve any
28    person who enrolled the pupil of the obligation  to  pay  the
29    tuition  charged  for that attendance under Section 10-20.12a
30    if the final decision of the board is that  the  pupil  is  a
31    nonresident of the district. If a pupil is determined to be a
32    nonresident  of  the district for whom tuition is required to
33    be charged pursuant to this Section, the board  shall  refuse
34    to  permit the pupil to continue attending the schools of the
 
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 1    district unless the required tuition is paid for the pupil.
 2        (e)  Except for a pupil referred to in subsection (b)  of
 3    Section  10-22.5a,  a pupil referred to in Section 10-20.12a,
 4    or a pupil referred to in subsection (b) of this  Section,  a
 5    person  who  knowingly  enrolls  or attempts to enroll in the
 6    schools of a school district on a tuition free basis a  pupil
 7    known  by  that  person  to  be a nonresident of the district
 8    shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.
 9        (f)  A person who knowingly or wilfully presents  to  any
10    school district any false information regarding the residency
11    of  a  pupil for the purpose of enabling that pupil to attend
12    any  school  in  that  district  without  the  payment  of  a
13    nonresident tuition charge shall  be  guilty  of  a  Class  C
14    misdemeanor.
15        (g)  The  provisions  of  this Section are subject to the
16    provisions  of  the  Education  for  Homeless  Children  Act.
17    Nothing in this Section shall be construed  to  apply  to  or
18    require  the  payment of tuition by a parent or guardian of a
19    "homeless child" (as that term is defined in Section  1-5  of
20    the  Education  for Homeless Children Act) in connection with
21    or as a result of the homeless child's continued education or
22    enrollment in a school that is chosen in accordance with  any
23    of the options provided in Section 1-10 of that Act.
24    (Source: P.A. 89-480, eff. 1-1-97; 90-566, eff. 1-2-98.)

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