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 1        AN ACT to amend  the  School  Code  by  changing  Section
 2    18-8.05.

 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section 5.   The  School  Code  is  amended  by  changing
 6    Section 18-8.05 as follows:

 7        (105 ILCS 5/18-8.05)
 8        Sec.  18-8.05.  Basis  for apportionment of general State
 9    financial aid and  supplemental  general  State  aid  to  the
10    common schools for the 1998-1999 and subsequent school years.

11    (A)  General Provisions.
12        (1)  The   provisions   of  this  Section  apply  to  the
13    1998-1999 and subsequent school years.  The system of general
14    State financial aid provided for in this Section is  designed
15    to  assure that, through a combination of State financial aid
16    and required local resources, the financial support  provided
17    each  pupil  in  Average Daily Attendance equals or exceeds a
18    prescribed per pupil Foundation Level.  This formula approach
19    imputes a level of per pupil Available  Local  Resources  and
20    provides  for  the  basis  to  calculate a per pupil level of
21    general State financial aid that,  when  added  to  Available
22    Local Resources, equals or exceeds the Foundation Level.  The
23    amount  of  per  pupil general State financial aid for school
24    districts,  in  general,  varies  in  inverse   relation   to
25    Available  Local Resources.  Per pupil amounts are based upon
26    each school district's Average Daily Attendance as that  term
27    is defined in this Section.
28        (2)  In  addition  to general State financial aid, school
29    districts with specified levels or concentrations  of  pupils
30    from   low   income   households   are  eligible  to  receive
31    supplemental general State financial aid grants  as  provided
 
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 1    pursuant to subsection (H). The supplemental State aid grants
 2    provided  for  school districts under subsection (H) shall be
 3    appropriated for distribution to school districts as part  of
 4    the  same  line item in which the general State financial aid
 5    of school districts is appropriated under this Section.
 6        (3)  To receive financial assistance under this  Section,
 7    school  districts  are required to file claims with the State
 8    Board of Education, subject to the following requirements:
 9             (a)  Any school district which fails for  any  given
10        school  year to maintain school as required by law, or to
11        maintain a recognized school is not eligible to file  for
12        such  school  year any claim upon the Common School Fund.
13        In case of  nonrecognition  of  one  or  more  attendance
14        centers   in   a   school  district  otherwise  operating
15        recognized schools, the claim of the  district  shall  be
16        reduced   in  the  proportion  which  the  Average  Daily
17        Attendance in the attendance center or  centers  bear  to
18        the  Average  Daily Attendance in the school district.  A
19        "recognized school" means any public school  which  meets
20        the standards as established for recognition by the State
21        Board  of  Education.   A  school  district or attendance
22        center not having recognition status  at  the  end  of  a
23        school term is entitled to receive State aid payments due
24        upon   a  legal  claim  which  was  filed  while  it  was
25        recognized.
26             (b)  School district claims filed under this Section
27        are subject to Sections 18-9, 18-10, and 18-12, except as
28        otherwise provided in this Section.
29             (c)  If a  school  district  operates  a  full  year
30        school  under  Section  10-19.1, the general State aid to
31        the school district shall  be  determined  by  the  State
32        Board  of  Education  in  accordance with this Section as
33        near as may be applicable.
34             (d) (Blank).
 
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 1        (4)  Except as provided in subsections (H) and  (L),  the
 2    board  of  any  district receiving any of the grants provided
 3    for in this Section may apply those  funds  to  any  fund  so
 4    received   for   which  that  board  is  authorized  to  make
 5    expenditures by law.
 6        School districts are not  required  to  exert  a  minimum
 7    Operating  Tax  Rate in order to qualify for assistance under
 8    this Section.
 9        (5)  As used in this Section the  following  terms,  when
10    capitalized, shall have the meaning ascribed herein:
11             (a)  "Average  Daily  Attendance":  A count of pupil
12        attendance  in  school,  averaged  as  provided  for   in
13        subsection   (C)  and  utilized  in  deriving  per  pupil
14        financial support levels.
15             (b)  "Available Local Resources":  A computation  of
16        local  financial  support,  calculated  on  the  basis of
17        Average Daily Attendance and derived as provided pursuant
18        to subsection (D).
19             (c)  "Corporate   Personal   Property    Replacement
20        Taxes":  Funds paid to local school districts pursuant to
21        "An  Act  in  relation  to  the  abolition  of ad valorem
22        personal property tax and  the  replacement  of  revenues
23        lost thereby, and amending and repealing certain Acts and
24        parts  of Acts in connection therewith", certified August
25        14, 1979, as amended (Public Act 81-1st S.S.-1).
26             (d)  "Foundation Level":  A prescribed level of  per
27        pupil  financial  support  as  provided for in subsection
28        (B).
29             (e)  "Operating  Tax  Rate":   All  school  district
30        property taxes extended for all purposes, except Bond and
31        Interest, Summer School, Rent, Capital  Improvement,  and
32        Vocational Education Building purposes.

33    (B)  Foundation Level.
34        (1)  The  Foundation Level is a figure established by the
 
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 1    State representing the minimum level of per  pupil  financial
 2    support  that  should  be  available to provide for the basic
 3    education of each pupil in Average Daily Attendance.  As  set
 4    forth  in  this  Section,  each school district is assumed to
 5    exert  a  sufficient  local  taxing  effort  such  that,   in
 6    combination with the aggregate of general State financial aid
 7    provided  the  district,  an  aggregate  of  State  and local
 8    resources are available to meet the basic education needs  of
 9    pupils in the district.
10        (2)  For  the 1998-1999 school year, the Foundation Level
11    of support is $4,225.  For the  1999-2000  school  year,  the
12    Foundation  Level  of  support  is $4,325.  For the 2000-2001
13    school year, the Foundation Level of support is $4,425.
14        (3)  For the 2001-2002 school year and each  school  year
15    thereafter, the Foundation Level of support is $4,425 or such
16    greater  amount  as  may be established by law by the General
17    Assembly.

18    (C)  Average Daily Attendance.
19        (1)  For  purposes  of  calculating  general  State   aid
20    pursuant  to  subsection  (E),  an  Average  Daily Attendance
21    figure shall  be  utilized.   The  Average  Daily  Attendance
22    figure  for formula calculation purposes shall be the monthly
23    average of the actual number of pupils in attendance of  each
24    school district, as further averaged for the best 3 months of
25    pupil  attendance for each school district.  In compiling the
26    figures for  the  number  of  pupils  in  attendance,  school
27    districts  and  the  State  Board  of  Education  shall,  for
28    purposes  of  general  State  aid funding, conform attendance
29    figures to the requirements of subsection (F).
30        (2)  The Average Daily  Attendance  figures  utilized  in
31    subsection (E) shall be the requisite attendance data for the
32    school  year  immediately preceding the school year for which
33    general State aid is being calculated.
 
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 1    (D)  Available Local Resources.
 2        (1)  For  purposes  of  calculating  general  State   aid
 3    pursuant  to  subsection  (E),  a representation of Available
 4    Local Resources per  pupil,  as  that  term  is  defined  and
 5    determined  in this subsection, shall be utilized.  Available
 6    Local Resources per pupil shall include a  calculated  dollar
 7    amount representing local school district revenues from local
 8    property   taxes   and   from   Corporate  Personal  Property
 9    Replacement Taxes,  expressed  on  the  basis  of  pupils  in
10    Average Daily Attendance.
11        (2)  In  determining  a  school  district's  revenue from
12    local property taxes, the  State  Board  of  Education  shall
13    utilize  the  equalized  assessed  valuation  of  all taxable
14    property of each school district as of September  30  of  the
15    previous  year.   The  equalized  assessed valuation utilized
16    shall be obtained and determined as  provided  in  subsection
17    (G).
18        (3)  For school districts maintaining grades kindergarten
19    through  12,  local  property tax revenues per pupil shall be
20    calculated  as  the  product  of  the  applicable   equalized
21    assessed  valuation for the district multiplied by 3.00%, and
22    divided by the district's Average  Daily  Attendance  figure.
23    For  school districts maintaining grades kindergarten through
24    8, local property tax revenues per pupil shall be  calculated
25    as the product of the applicable equalized assessed valuation
26    for  the  district  multiplied  by  2.30%, and divided by the
27    district's  Average  Daily  Attendance  figure.   For  school
28    districts maintaining grades 9 through 12, local property tax
29    revenues per pupil shall be the applicable equalized assessed
30    valuation of the district multiplied by 1.20%, and divided by
31    the district's Average Daily Attendance figure.
32        (4)  The Corporate Personal  Property  Replacement  Taxes
33    paid to each school district during the calendar year 2 years
34    before  the  calendar  year  in  which  a school year begins,
 
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 1    divided by the  Average  Daily  Attendance  figure  for  that
 2    district,  shall  be added to the local property tax revenues
 3    per pupil as derived by the application  of  the  immediately
 4    preceding  paragraph (3).  The sum of these per pupil figures
 5    for each school district  shall  constitute  Available  Local
 6    Resources  as  that term is utilized in subsection (E) in the
 7    calculation of general State aid.

 8    (E)  Computation of General State Aid.
 9        (1)  For each school year, the amount  of  general  State
10    aid  allotted  to  a school district shall be computed by the
11    State Board of Education as provided in this subsection.
12        (2)  For any school district for  which  Available  Local
13    Resources  per  pupil  is less than the product of 0.93 times
14    the Foundation Level, general State  aid  for  that  district
15    shall  be  calculated  as  an  amount equal to the Foundation
16    Level minus Available  Local  Resources,  multiplied  by  the
17    Average Daily Attendance of the school district.
18        (3)  For  any  school  district for which Available Local
19    Resources per pupil is equal to or greater than  the  product
20    of  0.93 times the Foundation Level and less than the product
21    of 1.75 times the Foundation Level, the general State aid per
22    pupil shall be a decimal proportion of the  Foundation  Level
23    derived   using   a  linear  algorithm.   Under  this  linear
24    algorithm, the calculated general State aid per  pupil  shall
25    decline   in  direct  linear  fashion  from  0.07  times  the
26    Foundation Level for a school district with  Available  Local
27    Resources  equal  to the product of 0.93 times the Foundation
28    Level, to 0.05  times  the  Foundation  Level  for  a  school
29    district  with Available Local Resources equal to the product
30    of 1.75  times  the  Foundation  Level.   The  allocation  of
31    general  State  aid  for  school  districts  subject  to this
32    paragraph 3 shall be the calculated  general  State  aid  per
33    pupil  figure  multiplied  by the Average Daily Attendance of
34    the school district.
 
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 1        (4)  For any school district for  which  Available  Local
 2    Resources  per  pupil  equals  or exceeds the product of 1.75
 3    times the Foundation Level, the general  State  aid  for  the
 4    school  district  shall  be calculated as the product of $218
 5    multiplied by the Average  Daily  Attendance  of  the  school
 6    district.

 7    (F)  Compilation of Average Daily Attendance.
 8        (1)  Each  school district shall, by July 1 of each year,
 9    submit to the State Board of Education, on  forms  prescribed
10    by  the  State Board of Education, attendance figures for the
11    school year that began in the preceding calendar  year.   The
12    attendance  information  so  transmitted  shall  identify the
13    average daily attendance figures for each month of the school
14    year, except that any days of attendance in August  shall  be
15    added to the month of September and any days of attendance in
16    June shall be added to the month of May.
17        Except  as  otherwise  provided  in this Section, days of
18    attendance by pupils shall be counted only  for  sessions  of
19    not  less  than  5  clock  hours of school work per day under
20    direct supervision of: (i)  teachers,  or  (ii)  non-teaching
21    personnel   or   volunteer   personnel   when   engaging   in
22    non-teaching   duties  and  supervising  in  those  instances
23    specified in subsection (a) of Section 10-22.34 and paragraph
24    10 of Section 34-18, with pupils of legal school age  and  in
25    kindergarten and grades 1 through 12.
26        Days  of attendance by tuition pupils shall be accredited
27    only to the districts that pay the tuition  to  a  recognized
28    school.
29        (2)  Days  of  attendance  by pupils of less than 5 clock
30    hours of school shall be subject to the following  provisions
31    in the compilation of Average Daily Attendance.
32             (a)  Pupils  regularly  enrolled  in a public school
33        for only a part of the school day may be counted  on  the
34        basis  of  1/6 day for every class hour of instruction of
 
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 1        40 minutes or more attended pursuant to such enrollment.
 2             (b)  Days of attendance may be  less  than  5  clock
 3        hours  on the opening and closing of the school term, and
 4        upon the first day of pupil attendance, if preceded by  a
 5        day  or  days  utilized  as  an  institute  or  teachers'
 6        workshop.
 7             (c)  A  session  of  4  or  more  clock hours may be
 8        counted as a day of attendance upon certification by  the
 9        regional   superintendent,  and  approved  by  the  State
10        Superintendent  of  Education  to  the  extent  that  the
11        district has been forced to use daily multiple sessions.
12             (d)  A session of 3  or  more  clock  hours  may  be
13        counted  as a day of attendance (1) when the remainder of
14        the school day or at least 2 hours in the evening of that
15        day is utilized for an in-service  training  program  for
16        teachers,  up  to  a maximum of 5 days per school year of
17        which a maximum of 4 days of such 5 days may be used  for
18        parent-teacher  conferences, provided a district conducts
19        an in-service training program  for  teachers  which  has
20        been  approved  by the State Superintendent of Education;
21        or, in lieu of 4 such days, 2 full days may be  used,  in
22        which  event  each  such  day  may be counted as a day of
23        attendance; and  (2)  when  days  in  addition  to  those
24        provided  in  item (1) are scheduled by a school pursuant
25        to its school improvement plan adopted under  Article  34
26        or its revised or amended school improvement plan adopted
27        under  Article 2, provided that (i) such sessions of 3 or
28        more clock  hours  are  scheduled  to  occur  at  regular
29        intervals, (ii) the remainder of the school days in which
30        such  sessions occur are utilized for in-service training
31        programs  or  other  staff  development  activities   for
32        teachers,  and  (iii)  a  sufficient number of minutes of
33        school work under the direct supervision of teachers  are
34        added to the school days between such regularly scheduled
 
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 1        sessions  to  accumulate  not  less  than  the  number of
 2        minutes by which such sessions of 3 or more  clock  hours
 3        fall  short  of 5 clock hours. Any full days used for the
 4        purposes of this paragraph shall not  be  considered  for
 5        computing  average  daily attendance.  Days scheduled for
 6        in-service   training   programs,    staff    development
 7        activities,   or   parent-teacher   conferences   may  be
 8        scheduled  separately  for  different  grade  levels  and
 9        different attendance centers of the district.
10             (e)  A session of not less than one  clock  hour  of
11        teaching  of  hospitalized or homebound pupils on-site or
12        by telephone to the classroom may be counted as  1/2  day
13        of  attendance,  however  these  pupils must receive 4 or
14        more clock hours of instruction to be counted for a  full
15        day of attendance.
16             (f)  A  session  of  at  least  4 clock hours may be
17        counted as a day of attendance for  first  grade  pupils,
18        and  pupils in full day kindergartens, and a session of 2
19        or more hours may be counted as 1/2 day of attendance  by
20        pupils  in  kindergartens  which  provide only 1/2 day of
21        attendance.
22             (g)  For children with disabilities  who  are  below
23        the  age of 6 years and who cannot attend 2 or more clock
24        hours  because  of  their  disability  or  immaturity,  a
25        session of not less than one clock hour may be counted as
26        1/2 day of attendance; however for  such  children  whose
27        educational needs so require a session of 4 or more clock
28        hours may be counted as a full day of attendance.
29             (h)  A  recognized  kindergarten  which provides for
30        only 1/2 day of attendance by each pupil shall  not  have
31        more than 1/2 day of attendance counted in any one 1 day.
32        However, kindergartens may count 2 1/2 days of attendance
33        in  any  5 consecutive school days.  When a pupil attends
34        such a kindergarten for 2 half days  on  any  one  school
 
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 1        day,  the  pupil  shall  have  the following day as a day
 2        absent from school, unless the  school  district  obtains
 3        permission  in  writing  from the State Superintendent of
 4        Education.  Attendance at kindergartens which provide for
 5        a full day of attendance by each pupil shall  be  counted
 6        the  same  as attendance by first grade pupils.  Only the
 7        first year of attendance in  one  kindergarten  shall  be
 8        counted,  except  in  case  of  children  who entered the
 9        kindergarten  in  their  fifth  year  whose   educational
10        development  requires  a  second  year of kindergarten as
11        determined under the rules and regulations of  the  State
12        Board of Education.

13    (G)  Equalized Assessed Valuation Data.
14        (1)  For  purposes  of the calculation of Available Local
15    Resources required pursuant  to  subsection  (D),  the  State
16    Board  of  Education  shall  secure  from  the  Department of
17    Revenue the value as equalized or assessed by the  Department
18    of  Revenue of all taxable property of every school district,
19    together with (i) the applicable tax rate used  in  extending
20    taxes for the funds of the district as of September 30 of the
21    previous  year  and  (ii)  the  limiting  rate for all school
22    districts subject to property tax  extension  limitations  as
23    imposed under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
24        This equalized assessed valuation, as adjusted further by
25    the requirements of this subsection, shall be utilized in the
26    calculation of Available Local Resources.
27        (2)  The  equalized  assessed  valuation in paragraph (1)
28    shall be adjusted, as applicable, in the following manner:
29             (a)  For the purposes of calculating State aid under
30        this Section, with  respect  to  any  part  of  a  school
31        district  within  a redevelopment project area in respect
32        to  which  a  municipality  has  adopted  tax   increment
33        allocation   financing  pursuant  to  the  Tax  Increment
34        Allocation Redevelopment Act, Sections 11-74.4-1  through
 
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 1        11-74.4-11   of   the  Illinois  Municipal  Code  or  the
 2        Industrial Jobs Recovery Law, Sections 11-74.6-1  through
 3        11-74.6-50 of the Illinois Municipal Code, no part of the
 4        current  equalized  assessed  valuation  of real property
 5        located in any such project area which is attributable to
 6        an increase above the total  initial  equalized  assessed
 7        valuation  of  such property shall be used as part of the
 8        equalized assessed valuation of the district, until  such
 9        time  as  all redevelopment project costs have been paid,
10        as provided in Section 11-74.4-8  of  the  Tax  Increment
11        Allocation  Redevelopment Act or in Section 11-74.6-35 of
12        the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law.  For the purpose of the
13        equalized assessed valuation of the district,  the  total
14        initial  equalized  assessed  valuation  or  the  current
15        equalized  assessed  valuation, whichever is lower, shall
16        be used until such  time  as  all  redevelopment  project
17        costs have been paid.
18             (b)  The  real property equalized assessed valuation
19        for a school district shall be  adjusted  by  subtracting
20        from  the real property value as equalized or assessed by
21        the Department of Revenue  for  the  district  an  amount
22        computed by dividing the amount of any abatement of taxes
23        under  Section  18-170  of the Property Tax Code by 3.00%
24        for a district maintaining grades kindergarten through 12
25        ,  or  by  2.30%  for  a  district   maintaining   grades
26        kindergarten  through  8,  or  by  1.20%  for  a district
27        maintaining grades 9 through 12 and adjusted by an amount
28        computed by dividing the amount of any abatement of taxes
29        under subsection (a) of Section 18-165  of  the  Property
30        Tax  Code  by the same percentage rates for district type
31        as specified in this subparagraph (b) (c).
32        (3)  For the 1999-2000 school year and each  school  year
33    thereafter, if a school district meets all of the criteria of
34    this subsection (G)(3), the school district's Available Local
 
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 1    Resources  shall be calculated under subsection (D) using the
 2    district's Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed  Valuation
 3    as calculated under this subsection (G)(3).
 4        For  purposes  of  this  subsection  (G)(3) the following
 5    terms shall have the following meanings:
 6             "Budget Year":  The school year  for  which  general
 7        State aid is calculated and awarded under subsection (E).
 8             "Base  Tax Year": The property tax levy year used to
 9        calculate the Budget Year  allocation  of  general  State
10        aid.
11             "Preceding  Tax  Year":  The  property tax levy year
12        immediately preceding the Base Tax Year.
13             "Base Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of  the
14        equalized assessed valuation utilized by the County Clerk
15        in  the  Base Tax Year multiplied by the limiting rate as
16        calculated  by  the  County  Clerk  and  defined  in  the
17        Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
18             "Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of
19        the equalized assessed valuation utilized by  the  County
20        Clerk  in  the  Preceding  Tax  Year  multiplied  by  the
21        limiting  rate  as  calculated  by  the  County Clerk and
22        defined in the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
23             "Extension Limitation  Ratio":  A  numerical  ratio,
24        certified  by the County Clerk, in which the numerator is
25        the Base Tax Year's Tax Extension and the denominator  is
26        the Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension.
27             "Operating  Tax  Rate":  The  operating  tax rate as
28        defined in subsection (A).
29        If a school district is subject to property tax extension
30    limitations as  imposed  under  the  Property  Tax  Extension
31    Limitation  Law, and if the Available Local Resources of that
32    school district as  calculated  pursuant  to  subsection  (D)
33    using  the  Base  Tax  Year are less than the product of 1.75
34    times the Foundation Level for the  Budget  Year,  the  State
 
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 1    Board  of  Education shall calculate the Extension Limitation
 2    Equalized Assessed  Valuation  of  that  district.   For  the
 3    1999-2000  school  year,  the  Extension Limitation Equalized
 4    Assessed Valuation of a school district as calculated by  the
 5    State Board of Education shall be equal to the product of the
 6    district's   1996   Equalized   Assessed  Valuation  and  the
 7    district's Extension Limitation  Ratio.   For  the  2000-2001
 8    school  year  and  each school year thereafter, the Extension
 9    Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation of a school  district
10    as  calculated by the State Board of Education shall be equal
11    to the product of the last  calculated  Extension  Limitation
12    Equalized  Assessed  Valuation  and  the district's Extension
13    Limitation  Ratio.  If  the  Extension  Limitation  Equalized
14    Assessed Valuation of a school district as  calculated  under
15    this  subsection (G)(3) is less than the district's equalized
16    assessed valuation  as  calculated  pursuant  to  subsections
17    (G)(1)  and  (G)(2),  then  for  purposes  of calculating the
18    district's general State aid for the Budget Year pursuant  to
19    subsection  (E), that Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed
20    Valuation shall  be  utilized  to  calculate  the  district's
21    Available Local Resources under subsection (D).

22    (H)  Supplemental General State Aid.
23        (1)  In  addition  to  the  general  State  aid  a school
24    district is allotted pursuant to subsection  (E),  qualifying
25    school  districts  shall receive a grant, paid in conjunction
26    with  a  district's  payments  of  general  State  aid,   for
27    supplemental  general  State aid based upon the concentration
28    level of  children  from  low-income  households  within  the
29    school  district.  Supplemental State aid grants provided for
30    school districts under this subsection shall be  appropriated
31    for distribution to school districts as part of the same line
32    item  in  which  the  general  State  financial aid of school
33    districts is appropriated under this Section. For purposes of
34    this subsection, the term  "Low-Income  Concentration  Level"
 
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 1    shall  be  the  low-income eligible pupil count from the most
 2    recently available federal  census  divided  by  the  Average
 3    Daily Attendance of the school district.
 4        (2)  Supplemental  general  State  aid  pursuant  to this
 5    subsection shall be provided as follows:
 6             (a)  For any  school  district  with  a  Low  Income
 7        Concentration  Level  of  at least 20% and less than 35%,
 8        the grant for any school year shall be $800 multiplied by
 9        the low income eligible pupil count.
10             (b)  For any  school  district  with  a  Low  Income
11        Concentration  Level  of  at least 35% and less than 50%,
12        the grant for the 1998-1999 school year shall  be  $1,100
13        multiplied by the low income eligible pupil count.
14             (c)  For  any  school  district  with  a  Low Income
15        Concentration Level of at least 50% and  less  than  60%,
16        the  grant  for  the  1998-99 school year shall be $1,500
17        multiplied by the low income eligible pupil count.
18             (d)  For any  school  district  with  a  Low  Income
19        Concentration  Level  of  60%  or more, the grant for the
20        1998-99 school year shall be $1,900 multiplied by the low
21        income eligible pupil count.
22             (e)  For the 1999-2000 school year,  the  per  pupil
23        amount  specified  in  subparagraphs  (b),  (c), and (d),
24        immediately above shall be increased by $100  to  $1,200,
25        $1,600, and $2,000, respectively.
26             (f)  For  the  2000-2001  school year, the per pupil
27        amounts specified  in  subparagraphs  (b),  (c)  and  (d)
28        immediately  above  shall be increased to $1,230, $1,640,
29        and $2,050, respectively.
30        (3)  School districts with an Average Daily Attendance of
31    more than  1,000  and  less  than  50,000  that  qualify  for
32    supplemental  general  State  aid pursuant to this subsection
33    shall submit a plan to the State Board of Education prior  to
34    October  30  of  each year for the use of the funds resulting
 
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 1    from this grant of supplemental general  State  aid  for  the
 2    improvement  of  instruction  in  which  priority is given to
 3    meeting the education needs of disadvantaged children.   Such
 4    plan   shall  be  submitted  in  accordance  with  rules  and
 5    regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education.
 6        (4)  School districts with an Average Daily Attendance of
 7    50,000 or more that qualify for  supplemental  general  State
 8    aid   pursuant  to  this  subsection  shall  be  required  to
 9    distribute from funds available pursuant to this Section,  no
10    less  than  $261,000,000  in  accordance  with  the following
11    requirements:
12             (a)  The required amounts shall  be  distributed  to
13        the  attendance centers within the district in proportion
14        to the number  of  pupils  enrolled  at  each  attendance
15        center  who are eligible to receive free or reduced-price
16        lunches or breakfasts under the federal  Child  Nutrition
17        Act  of  1966  and  under  the  National School Lunch Act
18        during the immediately preceding school year.
19             (b)  The   distribution   of   these   portions   of
20        supplemental  and  general  State  aid  among  attendance
21        centers according to  these  requirements  shall  not  be
22        compensated  for  or  contravened  by  adjustments of the
23        total of  other  funds  appropriated  to  any  attendance
24        centers, and the Board of Education shall utilize funding
25        from  one  or several sources in order to fully implement
26        this provision annually prior to the opening of school.
27             (c)  Each attendance center shall be provided by the
28        school district a distribution  of  noncategorical  funds
29        and other categorical funds to which an attendance center
30        is entitled under law in order that the general State aid
31        and   supplemental   general   State   aid   provided  by
32        application of this subsection  supplements  rather  than
33        supplants  the noncategorical funds and other categorical
34        funds provided by the school district to  the  attendance
 
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 1        centers.
 2             (d)  Any  funds made available under this subsection
 3        that by reason of the provisions of this  subsection  are
 4        not  required  to be allocated and provided to attendance
 5        centers may be used and appropriated by the board of  the
 6        district for any lawful school purpose.
 7             (e)  Funds received by an attendance center pursuant
 8        to this subsection shall be used by the attendance center
 9        at  the  discretion  of  the  principal  and local school
10        council for programs to improve educational opportunities
11        at qualifying schools through the following programs  and
12        services:  early  childhood education, reduced class size
13        or improved adult to student classroom ratio,  enrichment
14        programs,  remedial  assistance,  attendance improvement,
15        and other  educationally  beneficial  expenditures  which
16        supplement  the  regular and basic programs as determined
17        by the State Board of Education.   Funds  provided  shall
18        not be expended for any political or lobbying purposes as
19        defined by board rule.
20             (f)  Each district subject to the provisions of this
21        subdivision  (H)(4)  shall  submit  an acceptable plan to
22        meet the educational needs of disadvantaged children,  in
23        compliance  with  the  requirements of this paragraph, to
24        the State Board of Education prior to  July  15  of  each
25        year. This plan shall be consistent with the decisions of
26        local  school  councils concerning the school expenditure
27        plans developed in accordance  with  part  4  of  Section
28        34-2.3.  The State Board shall approve or reject the plan
29        within  60  days  after  its  submission.  If the plan is
30        rejected, the  district  shall  give  written  notice  of
31        intent   to  modify  the  plan  within  15  days  of  the
32        notification of rejection and then submit a modified plan
33        within 30 days after the date of the  written  notice  of
34        intent  to  modify.    Districts may amend approved plans
 
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 1        pursuant to rules  promulgated  by  the  State  Board  of
 2        Education.
 3             Upon  notification  by  the State Board of Education
 4        that the district has not submitted a plan prior to  July
 5        15  or  a  modified plan within the time period specified
 6        herein, the State aid funds  affected  by  that  plan  or
 7        modified  plan  shall  be  withheld by the State Board of
 8        Education until a plan or modified plan is submitted.
 9             If the district fails to  distribute  State  aid  to
10        attendance  centers  in accordance with an approved plan,
11        the plan for the following year shall allocate funds,  in
12        addition   to   the  funds  otherwise  required  by  this
13        subsection,  to  those  attendance  centers  which   were
14        underfunded  during the previous year in amounts equal to
15        such underfunding.
16             For purposes of  determining  compliance  with  this
17        subsection  in relation to the requirements of attendance
18        center funding, each district subject to  the  provisions
19        of this subsection shall submit as a separate document by
20        December  1 of each year a report of expenditure data for
21        the prior year in addition to  any  modification  of  its
22        current  plan.  If it is determined that there has been a
23        failure to comply with the expenditure provisions of this
24        subsection regarding contravention  or  supplanting,  the
25        State  Superintendent  of Education shall, within 60 days
26        of receipt of the report, notify  the  district  and  any
27        affected local school council.  The district shall within
28        45  days of receipt of that notification inform the State
29        Superintendent of Education of the remedial or corrective
30        action to be taken, whether  by amendment of the  current
31        plan,  if  feasible, or by adjustment in the plan for the
32        following  year.   Failure  to  provide  the  expenditure
33        report or the  notification  of  remedial  or  corrective
34        action  in  a timely manner shall result in a withholding
 
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 1        of the affected funds.
 2             The State Board of Education shall promulgate  rules
 3        and  regulations  to  implement  the  provisions  of this
 4        subsection.   No  funds  shall  be  released  under  this
 5        subdivision (H)(4) to any district that has not submitted
 6        a plan that has been  approved  by  the  State  Board  of
 7        Education.

 8    (I)  General State Aid for Newly Configured School Districts.
 9        (1)  For  a  new  school  district  formed  by  combining
10    property   included  totally  within  2  or  more  previously
11    existing school districts, for its first  year  of  existence
12    the  general  State  aid  and  supplemental general State aid
13    calculated under this Section shall be computed for  the  new
14    district  and for the previously existing districts for which
15    property is totally included within the new district.  If the
16    computation on the basis of the previously existing districts
17    is greater, a supplementary payment equal to  the  difference
18    shall  be  made for the first 4 years of existence of the new
19    district.
20        (2)  For a school  district  which  annexes  all  of  the
21    territory  of  one or more entire other school districts, for
22    the  first  year  during  which  the  change  of   boundaries
23    attributable  to  such  annexation  becomes effective for all
24    purposes as determined under Section 7-9 or 7A-8, the general
25    State aid and supplemental general State aid calculated under
26    this Section shall be computed for the annexing  district  as
27    constituted  after  the  annexation  and for the annexing and
28    each annexed district as constituted prior to the annexation;
29    and if the computation on  the  basis  of  the  annexing  and
30    annexed  districts  as constituted prior to the annexation is
31    greater, a supplementary  payment  equal  to  the  difference
32    shall  be  made  for  the  first  4 years of existence of the
33    annexing school district as constituted upon such annexation.
34        (3)  For 2 or more school districts which  annex  all  of
 
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 1    the  territory  of one or more entire other school districts,
 2    and for 2 or more community unit districts which result  upon
 3    the  division  (pursuant  to petition under Section 11A-2) of
 4    one or more other unit school districts into 2 or more  parts
 5    and  which  together include all of the parts into which such
 6    other unit school district or districts are so  divided,  for
 7    the   first  year  during  which  the  change  of  boundaries
 8    attributable to such annexation or division becomes effective
 9    for all purposes as determined under Section 7-9  or  11A-10,
10    as  the  case  may be, the general State aid and supplemental
11    general State aid calculated  under  this  Section  shall  be
12    computed   for   each   annexing  or  resulting  district  as
13    constituted after the annexation or  division  and  for  each
14    annexing  and  annexed  district,  or  for each resulting and
15    divided district, as constituted prior to the  annexation  or
16    division;  and  if the aggregate of the general State aid and
17    supplemental  general  State  aid  as  so  computed  for  the
18    annexing or resulting  districts  as  constituted  after  the
19    annexation  or  division  is  less  than the aggregate of the
20    general State aid and supplemental general State  aid  as  so
21    computed  for  the annexing and annexed districts, or for the
22    resulting and divided districts, as constituted prior to  the
23    annexation or division, then a supplementary payment equal to
24    the  difference  shall be made and allocated between or among
25    the annexing or resulting districts, as constituted upon such
26    annexation or division,  for  the  first  4  years  of  their
27    existence.   The  total difference payment shall be allocated
28    between or among the annexing or resulting districts  in  the
29    same  ratio  as the pupil enrollment from that portion of the
30    annexed or divided district or districts which is annexed  to
31    or included in each such annexing or resulting district bears
32    to  the  total  pupil  enrollment  from the entire annexed or
33    divided district or districts, as such  pupil  enrollment  is
34    determined  for the school year last ending prior to the date
 
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 1    when the change of boundaries attributable to the  annexation
 2    or  division  becomes effective for all purposes.  The amount
 3    of the total difference payment and the amount thereof to  be
 4    allocated  to  the  annexing  or resulting districts shall be
 5    computed by the State Board of  Education  on  the  basis  of
 6    pupil  enrollment  and other data which shall be certified to
 7    the State Board of Education, on forms which it shall provide
 8    for that purpose, by the regional superintendent  of  schools
 9    for each educational service region in which the annexing and
10    annexed  districts,  or  resulting  and divided districts are
11    located.
12        (3.5)  Claims  for  financial   assistance   under   this
13    subsection  (I)  shall  not be recomputed except as expressly
14    provided under this Section.
15        (4)  Any supplementary payment made under this subsection
16    (I) shall be treated as separate from all other payments made
17    pursuant to this Section.

18    (J)  Supplementary Grants in Aid.
19        (1)  Notwithstanding  any  other   provisions   of   this
20    Section,  the  amount  of  the aggregate general State aid in
21    combination with supplemental general State  aid  under  this
22    Section  for  which each school district is eligible shall be
23    no less than the amount of the aggregate  general  State  aid
24    entitlement  that  was received by the district under Section
25    18-8 (exclusive of amounts received  under  subsections  5(p)
26    and  5(p-5)  of  that  Section)  for the 1997-98 school year,
27    pursuant to the provisions of that Section as it was then  in
28    effect.   If   a  school  district  qualifies  to  receive  a
29    supplementary payment made under  this  subsection  (J),  the
30    amount of the aggregate general State aid in combination with
31    supplemental general State aid under this Section  which that
32    district is eligible to receive for each school year shall be
33    no  less  than  the amount of the aggregate general State aid
34    entitlement that was received by the district  under  Section
 
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 1    18-8  (exclusive  of  amounts received under subsections 5(p)
 2    and 5(p-5) of that Section) for the  1997-1998  school  year,
 3    pursuant  to the provisions of that Section as it was then in
 4    effect.
 5        (2)  If, as provided in paragraph (1) of this  subsection
 6    (J),  a school district is to receive aggregate general State
 7    aid in combination with supplemental general State aid  under
 8    this  Section  for the 1998-99 school year and any subsequent
 9    school year that in any such school year  is  less  than  the
10    amount  of  the  aggregate general State aid entitlement that
11    the district received for the 1997-98 school year, the school
12    district shall also receive, from  a  separate  appropriation
13    made  for  purposes  of  this subsection (J), a supplementary
14    payment that is equal to the amount of the difference in  the
15    aggregate State aid figures as described in paragraph (1).
16        (3)  (Blank).

17    (K)  Grants to Laboratory and Alternative Schools.
18        In  calculating  the  amount  to be paid to the governing
19    board of a  public  university  that  operates  a  laboratory
20    school  under  this Section or to any alternative school that
21    is operated by a  regional  superintendent  of  schools,  the
22    State Board of Education shall require by rule such reporting
23    requirements as it deems necessary.
24        As  used  in  this  Section,  "laboratory school" means a
25    public school which is  created  and  operated  by  a  public
26    university and approved by the State Board of Education.  The
27    governing  board  of a public university which receives funds
28    from the State  Board  under  this  subsection  (K)  may  not
29    increase  the  number  of students enrolled in its laboratory
30    school from a single district, if that  district  is  already
31    sending  50 or more students, except under a mutual agreement
32    between the school board of a student's district of residence
33    and the university which operates the laboratory  school.   A
34    laboratory  school  may  not  have  more than 1,000 students,
 
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 1    excluding students with disabilities in a  special  education
 2    program.
 3        As  used  in  this  Section, "alternative school" means a
 4    public school which is created and  operated  by  a  Regional
 5    Superintendent  of Schools and approved by the State Board of
 6    Education. Such alternative  schools  may  offer  courses  of
 7    instruction  for  which  credit  is  given  in regular school
 8    programs, courses to prepare students  for  the  high  school
 9    equivalency  testing  program  or vocational and occupational
10    training.  A regional superintendent of schools may  contract
11    with a school district or a public community college district
12    to  operate  an  alternative  school.   An alternative school
13    serving more than  one  educational  service  region  may  be
14    established  by  the  regional  superintendents of schools of
15    those  the  affected  educational  service   regions.      An
16    alternative  school serving more than one educational service
17    region may be operated  under  such  terms  as  the  regional
18    superintendents  of  schools  of  those  educational  service
19    regions may agree.
20        Each  laboratory  and  alternative  school shall file, on
21    forms provided by the State Superintendent of  Education,  an
22    annual  State  aid  claim  which  states  the  Average  Daily
23    Attendance  of  the  school's  students by month.  The best 3
24    months' Average Daily Attendance shall be computed  for  each
25    school.  The  general State aid entitlement shall be computed
26    by multiplying the applicable Average Daily Attendance by the
27    Foundation Level as determined under this Section.

28    (L)  Payments,   Additional   Grants   in   Aid   and   Other
29    Requirements.
30        (1)  For a school district operating under the  financial
31    supervision  of  an  Authority created under Article 34A, the
32    general State aid otherwise payable to  that  district  under
33    this  Section,  but  not  the supplemental general State aid,
34    shall be reduced by an amount equal to  the  budget  for  the
 
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 1    operations  of the Authority as certified by the Authority to
 2    the State Board of Education, and an  amount  equal  to  such
 3    reduction  shall  be  paid  to the Authority created for such
 4    district for its operating expenses in the manner provided in
 5    Section 18-11.  The remainder of general State school aid for
 6    any such district shall be paid in  accordance  with  Article
 7    34A  when  that Article provides for a disposition other than
 8    that provided by this Article.
 9        (2)  Impaction.  Impaction  payments  shall  be  made  as
10    provided for in Section 18-4.2.
11        (3)  Summer school.  Summer school payments shall be made
12    as provided in Section 18-4.3.

13    (M)  Education Funding Advisory Board.
14        The Education Funding Advisory Board, hereinafter in this
15    subsection (M) referred to as the "Board", is hereby created.
16    The Board shall consist of 5 members who are appointed by the
17    Governor,  by  and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
18    The  members  appointed  shall  include  representatives   of
19    education,  business,  and  the  general  public.  One of the
20    members so appointed shall be designated by the  Governor  at
21    the  time  the  appointment is made as the chairperson of the
22    Board. The initial members of the Board may be appointed  any
23    time after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997.
24    The  regular  term of each member of the Board shall be for 4
25    years from the third Monday of January of the year  in  which
26    the  term  of the member's appointment is to commence, except
27    that of the 5 initial  members  appointed  to  serve  on  the
28    Board,  the  member who is appointed as the chairperson shall
29    serve for a term that commences on the date  of  his  or  her
30    appointment and expires on the third Monday of January, 2002,
31    and  the  remaining  4  members,  by  lots drawn at the first
32    meeting of the Board that is held after  all  5  members  are
33    appointed,  shall  determine  2  of their number to serve for
34    terms  that  commence  on  the  date  of   their   respective
 
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 1    appointments and expire on the third Monday of January, 2001,
 2    and 2 of their number to serve for terms that commence on the
 3    date of their respective appointments and expire on the third
 4    Monday  of  January, 2000.  All members appointed to serve on
 5    the Board shall serve until their respective  successors  are
 6    appointed  and  confirmed.   Vacancies shall be filled in the
 7    same manner  as  original  appointments.   If  a  vacancy  in
 8    membership  occurs  at  a  time  when  the  Senate  is not in
 9    session, the Governor  shall  make  a  temporary  appointment
10    until  the  next  meeting of the Senate, when he or she shall
11    appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,  a
12    person  to  fill  that membership for the unexpired term.  If
13    the Senate is not in session when  the  initial  appointments
14    are  made, those appointments shall be made as in the case of
15    vacancies.
16        The Education Funding  Advisory  Board  shall  be  deemed
17    established,   and  the  initial  members  appointed  by  the
18    Governor to serve as members of the Board shall take  office,
19    on the date that the Governor makes his or her appointment of
20    the  fifth initial member of the Board, whether those initial
21    members  are  then  serving  pursuant  to   appointment   and
22    confirmation  or  pursuant to temporary appointments that are
23    made by the Governor as in the case of vacancies.
24        The State Board of Education  shall  provide  such  staff
25    assistance  to  the  Education  Funding  Advisory Board as is
26    reasonably required for the proper performance by  the  Board
27    of its responsibilities.
28        For  school  years  after  the 2000-2001 school year, the
29    Education Funding Advisory Board, in  consultation  with  the
30    State  Board  of  Education,  shall  make  recommendations as
31    provided in this subsection (M) to the General  Assembly  for
32    the foundation level under subdivision (B)(3) of this Section
33    and  for the supplemental general State aid grant level under
34    subsection (H)  of  this  Section  for  districts  with  high
 
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 1    concentrations  of  children  from  poverty.  The recommended
 2    foundation level shall be determined based on  a  methodology
 3    which   incorporates  the  basic  education  expenditures  of
 4    low-spending schools exhibiting  high  academic  performance.
 5    The   Education   Funding  Advisory  Board  shall  make  such
 6    recommendations to the General Assembly on January 1  of  odd
 7    numbered years, beginning January 1, 2001.

 8    (N)  (Blank). General State Aid Adjustment Grant.
 9        (1)  Any   school   district   subject  to  property  tax
10    extension limitations as imposed under the provisions of  the
11    Property  Tax  Extension  Limitation Law shall be entitled to
12    receive, subject to the qualifications  and  requirements  of
13    this  subsection,  a  general  State  aid  adjustment  grant.
14    Eligibility  for  this grant shall be determined on an annual
15    basis and claims for grant payments shall be paid subject  to
16    appropriations   made   specific  to  this  subsection.   For
17    purposes of this subsection the following  terms  shall  have
18    the following meanings:
19        "Budget  Year":   The school year for which general State
20    aid is calculated and awarded under subsection (E).
21        "Current Year":  The school  year  immediately  preceding
22    the Budget Year.
23        "Base  Tax  Year":   The  property  tax levy year used to
24    calculate the Budget Year allocation of general State aid.
25        "Preceding  Tax  Year":   The  property  tax  levy   year
26    immediately preceding the Base Tax Year.
27        "Extension   Limitation   Ratio":   A   numerical  ratio,
28    certified by a school district's County Clerk, in  which  the
29    numerator  is  the  Base  Tax  Year's  tax  extension  amount
30    resulting  from  the Limiting Rate and the denominator is the
31    Preceding Tax Year's tax extension amount resulting from  the
32    Limiting Rate.
33        "Limiting  Rate":   The  limiting  rate as defined in the
34    Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
 
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 1        "Preliminary Tax Rate": The tax  rate  for  all  purposes
 2    except  bond and interest that would have been used to extend
 3    those  taxes  absent  the  provisions  of  the  Property  Tax
 4    Extension Limitation Law.
 5        (2)  To qualify for a general State aid adjustment grant,
 6    a school district must meet all of the following  eligibility
 7    criteria for each Budget Year for which a grant is claimed:
 8             (a)  (Blank).
 9             (b)  The Preliminary Tax Rate of the school district
10        for  the  Base  Tax  Year was reduced by the Clerk of the
11        County as a result of the requirements  of  the  Property
12        Tax Extension Limitation Law.
13             (c)  The  Available Local Resources per pupil of the
14        school district as calculated pursuant to subsection  (D)
15        using the Base Tax Year are less than the product of 1.75
16        times the Foundation Level for the Budget Year.
17             (d)  The  school  district  has  filed  a proper and
18        timely claim for a general State aid adjustment grant  as
19        required under this subsection.
20        (3)  A  claim  for grant assistance under this subsection
21    shall be filed with the State Board of Education on or before
22    April 1 of the Current Year for a grant for the Budget  Year.
23    The  claim  shall  be  made  on forms prescribed by the State
24    Board of Education and  must  be  accompanied  by  a  written
25    statement from the Clerk of the County, certifying:
26             (a)  That  the  school  district had its Preliminary
27        Tax Rate for the Base Tax Year reduced as a result of the
28        Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
29             (b)  (Blank).
30             (c)  The Extension Limitation Ratio as that term  is
31        defined in this subsection.
32        (4)  On  or  before August 1 of the Budget Year the State
33    Board of Education shall calculate, for all school  districts
34    meeting the other requirements of this subsection, the amount
 
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 1    of  the  general State aid adjustment grant, if any, that the
 2    school districts are eligible to receive in the Budget  Year.
 3    The amount of the general State aid adjustment grant shall be
 4    calculated as follows:
 5             (a)  Determine  the  school district's general State
 6        aid grant for the Budget Year as provided  in  accordance
 7        with the provisions of subsection (E).
 8             (b)  Determine  the school district's adjusted level
 9        of general State aid by utilizing in the  calculation  of
10        Available   Local   Resources   the   equalized  assessed
11        valuation that was used to calculate  the  general  State
12        aid  for  the  preceding  fiscal  year  multiplied by the
13        Extension Limitation Ratio.
14             (c)  Subtract the sum derived  in  subparagraph  (a)
15        from  the sum derived in subparagraph (b).  If the result
16        is a positive number, that amount shall  be  the  general
17        State  aid adjustment grant that the district is eligible
18        to receive.
19        (5)  The State Board of Education shall  in  the  Current
20    Year,  based upon claims filed in the Current Year, recommend
21    to the General  Assembly  an  appropriation  amount  for  the
22    general  State aid adjustment grants to be made in the Budget
23    Year.
24        (6)  Claims for general State aid adjustment grants shall
25    be paid in a lump sum on or before January 1  of  the  Budget
26    Year  only  from  appropriations made by the General Assembly
27    expressly for claims under this subsection.  No  such  claims
28    may  be  paid from amounts appropriated for any other purpose
29    provided for under this  Section.   In  the  event  that  the
30    appropriation   for   claims   under   this   subsection   is
31    insufficient  to  meet  all  Budget Year claims for a general
32    State aid adjustment grant, the appropriation available shall
33    be proportionately prorated by the State Board  of  Education
34    amongst all districts filing for and entitled to payments.
 
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 1        (7)  The  State  Board  of Education shall promulgate the
 2    required claim forms and rules  necessary  to  implement  the
 3    provisions of this subsection.

 4    (O)  References.
 5        (1)  References in other laws to the various subdivisions
 6    of Section 18-8 as that Section existed before its repeal and
 7    replacement  by this Section 18-8.05 shall be deemed to refer
 8    to the corresponding provisions of this Section  18-8.05,  to
 9    the extent that those references remain applicable.
10        (2)  References  in  other  laws to State Chapter 1 funds
11    shall be deemed to refer to the  supplemental  general  State
12    aid provided under subsection (H) of this Section.
13    (Source:  P.A.  90-548,  eff.  7-1-98;  incorporates  90-566;
14    90-653,  eff.  7-29-98;  90-654,  eff.  7-29-98; 90-655, eff.
15    7-30-98; 90-802, eff. 12-15-98; revised 12-24-98.)

16        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  July
17    1, 1999.

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