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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3673

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 3673  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section  5.   The  School  Code  is  amended by changing
 5    Section 18-9 as follows:

 6        (105 ILCS 5/18-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 18-9)
 7        Sec.  18-9.  Requirement  for  special  equalization  and
 8    supplementary State aid.
 9        (a)  Any school district claiming an  equalization  quota
10    may   not  increase  its  annual  net  cash  balance  in  the
11    educational fund for the fiscal school  year  by  failing  to
12    expend  for educational purposes the total of (1) the general
13    grant,  (2)  the  equalization  quota,  and  (3)  the  amount
14    determined by applying the qualifying rate to  the  equalized
15    assessed  valuation  of  the  district.   Any  district which
16    increases such annual net cash balance by failing  to  expend
17    the  amount  received  from the sum of (1) the general grant,
18    (2) the equalization quota, and (3) the amount determined  by
19    applying  the  qualifying  rate  to  the  equalized  assessed
20    valuation  of  the district, shall have its next claim for an
21    equalization  quota  reduced  in  an  amount  equal  to   the
22    difference  between its expenditures for educational purposes
 
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 1    and that sum.
 2        Current expenditures made in  any  district  receiving  a
 3    special  equalization  quota  and  governed  by  a  board  of
 4    directors  must  be  approved  in  advance  by  the  regional
 5    superintendent.
 6        If,  as a result of tax objections based on inequities of
 7    assessment, a final decision of any court, entered  not  more
 8    than  one  year  before  or  3  years  after August 26, 1963,
 9    reduces the taxes received  by  the  educational  fund  of  a
10    school district, for any given year, in an amount equal to or
11    more  than  3%  of  the  total  amount  of taxes extended for
12    educational purposes of the district, that district may amend
13    its claim for  equalization  aid  for  that  year  by  adding
14    thereto an amount determined by multiplying the deficiency in
15    tax  receipts  by  a  percentage computed by dividing the tax
16    rate required in Section  18-8  to  receive  an  equalization
17    quota  by  the  tax  rate originally extended for educational
18    purposes.  The amended claim including any additional  monies
19    to  which  the district may be entitled shall be filed within
20    three years of the date of such decision and  the  additional
21    amount paid as supplementary state equalization aid.
22        (b)  Any  elementary,  high school or unit district which
23    for the year 1971, as  compared  to  the  year  1970,  has  a
24    decrease  of  more  than  40% in the value of all its taxable
25    property as  equalized  or  assessed  by  the  Department  of
26    Revenue,  shall be entitled to file a claim for supplementary
27    State aid with the Office  of  the  State  Superintendent  of
28    Education.   The  amount  of  such aid shall be determined by
29    multiplying the amount of the decrease in the  value  of  the
30    district's  taxable  property times the total of the 1972 tax
31    rates for school purposes less  the  sum  of  the  district's
32    qualifying  tax  rates  for  educational  and  transportation
33    purposes  extended  by  such  district.  Such claims shall be
34    filed on forms prescribed  by  the  Superintendent,  and  the
 
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 1    Superintendent  upon  receipt of such claims shall adjust the
 2    claim of each such district in accordance with the provisions
 3    of this Section.
 4        (c)  Where  property  comprising  an  aggregate  assessed
 5    valuation equal to 3% or more of the total assessed valuation
 6    of all taxable property in the district is owned by a  person
 7    or  corporation  who is the subject of bankruptcy proceedings
 8    or has been adjudged a bankrupt and, as a result thereof, has
 9    not paid taxes on that property for 2  or  more  years,  that
10    district  may  amend  its claim back to the inception of such
11    bankruptcy, not to exceed 6 years, in which time  such  taxes
12    were  not  paid  and for each succeeding year that such taxes
13    remain unpaid by adding to that claim an amount determined by
14    multiplying the assessed valuation of the property  on  which
15    taxes  have  not  been paid due to bankruptcy by the tax rate
16    required in Section 18-8 to receive an equalization quota  or
17    after  July 1, 1973, by the district's operating tax rate for
18    general state aid purposes.  If at any time a district  which
19    receives  additional  State  aid under the provisions of this
20    paragraph receives tax revenue from  such  property  for  the
21    years  that taxes were not paid, its next claim for State aid
22    shall be reduced in an amount equal to the taxes paid on such
23    property, not to exceed the  additional  State  aid  received
24    under  the  provisions of this subsection (c) paragraph. Such
25    claims  shall  be  filed   on   forms   prescribed   by   the
26    Superintendent,  and  the Superintendent upon receipt of such
27    claims shall adjust  the  claim  of  each  such  district  in
28    accordance   with  the  provisions  of  this  subsection  (c)
29    paragraph.
30        (d)  If  property  comprising   an   aggregate   assessed
31    valuation equal to 6% or more of the total assessed valuation
32    of  all  taxable  property in a school district is owned by a
33    person or corporation  that  is  the  subject  of  bankruptcy
34    proceedings  or  that  has been adjudged a bankrupt and, as a
 
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 1    result thereof, has not paid taxes on the property, then  the
 2    district  may  amend  its general State aid claim (i) back to
 3    the inception of the bankruptcy, not to exceed  6  years,  in
 4    which  time  those  taxes  were  not  paid  and (ii) for each
 5    succeeding year that those taxes remain unpaid, by adding  to
 6    the  claim  an  amount determined by multiplying the assessed
 7    valuation of the property on which taxes have not  been  paid
 8    due to the bankruptcy by the lesser of the total tax rate for
 9    the  district for the tax year for which the taxes are unpaid
10    or the applicable rate used  in  calculating  the  district's
11    general  State  aid  under paragraph (3) of subsection (D) of
12    Section 18-8.05 of this Code. If at any time a district  that
13    receives  additional  State  aid  under  this  subsection (d)
14    receives tax revenue from the property  for  the  years  that
15    taxes  were not paid, the district's next claim for State aid
16    shall be reduced in an amount equal to the taxes paid on  the
17    property,  not  to  exceed  the additional State aid received
18    under this subsection (d). Claims under this  subsection  (d)
19    shall   be   filed   on   forms   prescribed   by  the  State
20    Superintendent of Education, and the State Superintendent  of
21    Education, upon receipt of a claim, shall adjust the claim in
22    accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  subsection  (d).
23    Supplementary  State  aid for each succeeding year under this
24    subsection (d) shall be paid beginning with the first general
25    State aid claim paid after the district has filed a completed
26    claim in accordance with this subsection (d).
27    (Source: P.A. 81-1509.)

28        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
29    becoming law.".

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