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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 932
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 932 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
5 Section 7-2a as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/7-2a) (from Ch. 122, par. 7-2a)
7 Sec. 7-2a. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of
8 this Section, (i) any petition for dissolution filed under
9 this Article must specify the school district or districts to
10 which all of the territory of the district proposed to be
11 dissolved will be annexed and (ii). any petition for
12 dissolution may be made by the board of education of the
13 district or a majority of the legal voters residing in the
14 district proposed to be dissolved. No petition from any
15 other district affected by the proposed dissolution shall be
16 required.
17 (b) Any school district with a population of less than
18 5,000 residents shall be dissolved and its territory annexed
19 as provided in Section 7-11 by the regional board of school
20 trustees upon the filing with the regional board of school
21 trustees of a petition adopted by resolution of the board of
22 education or a petition signed by two-thirds a majority of
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1 the registered voters of the district seeking such
2 dissolution. If a petition is initiated by two-thirds of the
3 registered voters in a school district seeking to annex the
4 district in its entirety to another school district or
5 districts and the board of education of the annexing district
6 or districts has not adopted a resolution agreeing to the
7 annexation, then the annexation, if approved by the regional
8 board of school trustees, is not effective until it is
9 approved by the voters in each affected school district at an
10 election held for the purpose of voting on the question. No
11 petition shall be adopted or signed under this subsection
12 until the board of education or the petitioners, as the case
13 may be, shall have given at least 10 days' notice to be
14 published once in a newspaper having general circulation in
15 the district and shall have conducted a public informational
16 meeting to inform the residents of the district of the
17 proposed dissolution and to answer questions concerning the
18 proposed dissolution. The petition shall be filed with and
19 decided solely by the regional board of school trustees of
20 the region in which the regional superintendent of schools
21 has supervision of the school district being dissolved. The
22 regional board of school trustees shall not act on a petition
23 filed by a board of education if within 45 days after giving
24 notice of the hearing required under Section 7-11 a petition
25 in opposition to the petition of the board to dissolve,
26 signed by a majority of the registered voters of the
27 district, is filed with the regional board of school
28 trustees. The regional board of school trustees shall have
29 no authority to deny dissolution requested in a proper
30 petition for dissolution filed under this subsection (b), but
31 shall exercise its discretion in accordance with Section 7-11
32 on the issue of annexing the territory of a district being
33 dissolved, giving consideration to but not being bound by the
34 wishes expressed by the residents of the various school
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1 districts that may be affected by such annexation.
2 When dissolution and annexation become effective for
3 purposes of administration and attendance as determined
4 pursuant to Section 7-11, the positions of teachers in
5 contractual continued service in the district being dissolved
6 are transferred to an annexing district or to annexing
7 districts pursuant to the provisions of Section 24-12
8 relative to teachers having contractual continued service
9 status whose positions are transferred from one board to the
10 control of a different board, and those said provisions of
11 Section 24-12 shall apply to said transferred teachers. In
12 the event that the territory is added to 2 or more districts,
13 the decision on which positions shall be transferred to which
14 annexing districts shall be made giving consideration to the
15 proportionate percent of pupils transferred and the annexing
16 districts' staffing needs, and the transfer of specific
17 individuals into such positions shall be based upon the
18 request of those teachers in order of seniority in the
19 dissolving district. The contractual continued service
20 status of any teacher thereby transferred to an annexing
21 district is not lost and the different board is subject to
22 this Act with respect to such transferred teacher in the same
23 manner as if such teacher was that district's employee and
24 had been its employee during the time such teacher was
25 actually employed by the board of the dissolving district
26 from which the position was transferred.
27 (Source: P.A. 86-13; 87-1215.)".