92nd General Assembly
Summary of SB0616
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Senate Sponsors:
CRONIN-LINK-GEO-KARIS.

House Sponsors:
BEAUBIEN-OSMOND

Short description: 
SCH CD-REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENT                                             

Synopsis of Bill as introduced:
        Amends  the  School  District  Financial  Oversight   Panel   and      
   Emergency  Financial  Assistance  Law  of  the  School Code.  Allows a      
   financial oversight panel created pursuant to a petition  filed  by  a      
   school  district  to  petition  the  State  Board  of  Education to be      
   reconstituted as a panel having the powers, duties, legal status,  and      
   privileges  of  a  panel established by the State Board for a district      
   that has had its financial plan  rescinded  by  the  State  Board  for      
   violating  that plan.  Allows 5 (instead of 3) members to be appointed      
   to serve on a financial oversight panel.   Provides  that  any  moneys      
   provided to a board of education as a loan shall not be subject to any      
   limitation  on  debt  established under the Article of the School Code      
   concerning debt limitation.  Changes provisions concerning a  separate      
   tax levy for emergency financial assistance repayment purposes.  Makes      
   other changes.  Effective immediately.                                      
        HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1.                                                 
          Deletes reference to:                                                
          105 ILCS 5/1B-5                                                      
          105 ILCS 5/1B-8                                                      
        Deletes everything after the enacting clause.  Amends the  School      
   Code.    Makes  a  technical  change  in  a  Section concerning school      
   district financial oversight panels.                                        
        HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 2.                                                 
          Deletes reference to:                                                
          105 ILCS 5/1B-4                                                      
          Adds reference to:                                                   
          105 ILCS 5/3A-6                 from Ch. 122, par. 3A-6              
        Deletes everything. Amends the School Code.  Removes a  provision      
   that  provides  that  a  Section  of  the  School  Code concerning the      
   election of a regional superintendent of schools  for  a  consolidated      
   region,  filing a bond, and vacancies in an educational service region      
   has no application in an educational service region that is located in      
   any county, including a county that is  a  home  rule  unit,  if  that      
   educational  service  region  has  a  population  of 2,000,000 or more      
   inhabitants.  Provides that until July 1, 2003 or until  the  regional      
   superintendent  of  schools  elected  in  2002 takes office, whichever      
   occurs  first,  if  a  vacancy  exists  in  the  office  of   regional      
   superintendent  of  schools  of  an educational service region that is      
   located in a county that is a home rule unit and that has a population      
   of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, then that vacancy shall be filled by      
   the first assistant superintendent/deputy superintendent until the end      
   of  the  term  to  which  the  regional  superintendent  was  elected.      
   Effective immediately.                                                      
 
Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 92-0869

   Last action date: JAN-03-2003

           Location: Senate

 Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE -   2     SENATE -   0


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