AN ACT concerning appropriations.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:
ARTICLE 1
Section 5. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which shall be used by the Illinois State Board of Education exclusively for the foregoing purposes and not, under any circumstances, for personal services expenditures or other operational or administrative costs, are appropriated to the Illinois State Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013:
From the General Revenue Fund:
For Blind/Dyslexic Persons....................... 816,600
For Disabled Student Personnel
Reimbursement............................... 440,200,000
For Disabled Student Transportation
Reimbursement............................... 440,500,000
For Disabled Student Tuition,
Private Tuition............................. 218,947,700
For District Consolidation Costs/
Supplemental Payments to School Districts,
18-8.2, 18-18.3, 18-8.5, 18-8.05(l) of
the School Code............................... 2,500,000
For Extraordinary Funding for Children
Requiring Special Education, 14-7.02b
of the School Code.......................... 303,091,700
For Reimbursement for the Free Breakfast/
Lunch Program................................ 14,300,000
For Tax-Equivalent Grants, 18-4.4................ 222,600
For After School Matters....................... 2,000,000
For Teachers and Administrators
Mentoring Program..................................... 1
For Principal Mentoring Program........................ 1
For Summer School Payments, 18-4.3
of the School Code........................... 10,100,000
For Transportation-Regular/Vocational
Common School Transportation
Reimbursement, 29-5 of the School Code...... 205,808,900
For Visually Impaired/Educational
Materials Coordinating Unit, 14-11.01
of the School Code............................ 1,421,100
For Regular Education Reimbursement
Per 18-3 of the School Code.................. 12,000,000
For Special Education Reimbursement
Per 14-7.03 of the School Code.............. 105,000,000
For all costs associated with Alternative
Education/Regional Safe Schools............... 6,300,000
For Truant Alternative and Optional
Education Program............................ 11,500,000
For costs associated with Teach for America.... 1,000,000
For grants to Local Education Agencies
to conduct Agriculture Education Programs..... 1,250,000
For Career and Technical Education............ 38,062,100
For Arts and Foreign Language.......................... 1
For National Board Certified Teachers.......... 1,000,000
Total $1,815,270,703
From the Education Assistance Fund:
For General State Aid........................ 404,000,000
From the Common School Fund:
For General State Aid...................... 4,038,198,260
Total $4,442,198,260
Section 10. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated to the Illinois State Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013:
From the General Revenue Fund:
For Autism Training and Technical
Assistance...................................... 100,000
For Advanced Placement Classes................... 500,000
For Early Childhood Education................ 293,962,400
Total $294,562,400
Section 15. The following named sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated to the Illinois State Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013:
From the General Revenue Fund:
For Bilingual Education....................... 61,381,200
Section 20. The sum of $1,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for the Illinois Coalition Immigrant and Refugee Rights’ Parent Mentor Program.
Section 25. The sum of $1,500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund for deposit into the School District Emergency Financial Assistance Fund for use by the State Board of Education, as provided by 1B-8 of the School Code.
Section 30. The sum of $3,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the East St. Louis School District 189.
Section 35. The sum of $350,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for targeted initiatives.
Section 40. The amount of $550,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the Downstate Transit Improvement Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for grants to Local Education Agencies to conduct Agriculture Education Programs.
Section 45. If and only if House Bill 208 becomes law then Section 35 of Article 2 of that bill is amended as follows:
"Section 35. The sum of $27,400,000, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to
the Illinois State Board of Education for Student Assessments, including
Bilingual Assessments.:
For writing assessments in
Grade 11.................................. $2,530,000
For Student Assessments including
Bilingual Assessments................... $24,870,000”
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2013.