HB 404 — SCH CD-ADA-PRAIRIE ST ACH EXAM

HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b AN ACT concerning schools.

The supplemental State aid grants provided for HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 2 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b school districts under subsection (H) shall be appropriated for distribution to school districts as part of the same line item in which the general State financial aid of school districts is appropriated under this Section.

HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 3 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b School districts are not required to exert a minimum Operating Tax Rate in order to qualify for assistance under this Section.

As set forth in this Section, each school district is assumed to exert a sufficient local taxing effort such that, in combination with the aggregate of general State financial aid provided the district, an aggregate of State and local resources are HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 4 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b available to meet the basic education needs of pupils in the district.

HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 5 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b (D) Available Local Resources.

(4) The Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes paid to each school district during the calendar year 2 years before the calendar year in which a school year begins, divided by the Average Daily Attendance figure for that district, shall be added to the local property tax revenues per pupil as derived HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 6 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b by the application of the immediately preceding paragraph (3).

(4) For any school district for which Available Local Resources per pupil equals or exceeds the product of 1.75 times the Foundation Level, the general State aid for the school district shall be calculated as the product of $218 multiplied HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 7 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b by the Average Daily Attendance of the school district.

The average daily attendance for the HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 8 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b year-round buildings shall be computed as provided in subdivision (b) of this paragraph (1).

(c) A session of 4 or more clock hours may be counted HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 9 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b as a day of attendance upon certification by the regional superintendent, and approved by the State Superintendent of Education to the extent that the district has been forced to use daily multiple sessions.

(e) A session of not less than one clock hour of HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 10 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b teaching hospitalized or homebound pupils on-site or by telephone to the classroom may be counted as 1/2 day of attendance, however these pupils must receive 4 or more clock hours of instruction to be counted for a full day of attendance.

(i) On the days when the Prairie State Achievement Examination is administered under subsection (c) of HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 11 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b Section 2-3.64 of this Code, the day of attendance for a pupil whose school day must be shortened to accommodate required testing procedures may be less than 5 clock hours and shall be counted towards the 176 days of actual pupil attendance required under Section 10-19 of this Code, provided that a sufficient number of minutes of school work in excess of 5 clock hours are first completed on other school days to compensate for the loss of school work on the examination days.

The Department of Revenue shall add to the equalized assessed value of all taxable property of each school district situated entirely or partially within a county that is or was subject to the alternative general homestead exemption provisions of Section 15-176 of the Property Tax Code (a) (i) an amount equal to the total amount by which the homestead exemption allowed under Section 15-176 of the Property Tax Code for real property situated in that school district exceeds the total amount that would have been allowed in that school district if the maximum reduction under Section 15-176 was (i) $4,500 in Cook County or $3,500 in all other counties in tax year 2003 or (ii) $5,000 in all counties in tax year 2004 and thereafter and (b) (ii) an amount equal to the aggregate amount for the taxable year of all additional exemptions under Section 15-175 of the Property Tax Code for owners with a household HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 12 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b income of $30,000 or less.

(a) For the purposes of calculating State aid under this Section, with respect to any part of a school district within a redevelopment project area in respect to which a municipality has adopted tax increment allocation financing pursuant to the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act, Sections 11-74.4-1 through 11-74.4-11 of the Illinois Municipal Code or the Industrial Jobs HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 13 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b Recovery Law, Sections 11-74.6-1 through 11-74.6-50 of the Illinois Municipal Code, no part of the current equalized assessed valuation of real property located in any such project area which is attributable to an increase above the total initial equalized assessed valuation of such property shall be used as part of the equalized assessed valuation of the district, until such time as all redevelopment project costs have been paid, as provided in Section 11-74.4-8 of the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act or in Section 11-74.6-35 of the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law.

HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 14 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b For purposes of this subsection (G)(3) the following terms shall have the following meanings:

For the 2000-2001 school year and each school year thereafter, the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation of a school district as calculated by the State Board of Education shall be equal to the product of the Equalized Assessed Valuation last HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 15 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b used in the calculation of general State aid and the district’s Extension Limitation Ratio.

(5) For school districts having a majority of their equalized assessed valuation in any county except Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, or Will, if the amount of general State aid allocated to the school district for the 1999-2000 school year under the provisions of subsection (E), (H), and (J) of this Section is less than the amount of general State aid HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 16 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b allocated to the district for the 1998-1999 school year under these subsections, then the general State aid of the district for the 1999-2000 school year only shall be increased by the difference between these amounts.

If, however, (i) the percentage decrease from the 2 most recent federal censuses in the low-income eligible pupil count of a high school district HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 17 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b with fewer than 400 students exceeds by 75% or more the percentage change in the total low-income eligible pupil count of contiguous elementary school districts, whose boundaries are coterminous with the high school district, or (ii) a high school district within 2 counties and serving 5 elementary school districts, whose boundaries are coterminous with the high school district, has a percentage decrease from the 2 most recent federal censuses in the low-income eligible pupil count and there is a percentage increase in the total low-income eligible pupil count of a majority of the elementary school districts in excess of 50% from the 2 most recent federal censuses, then the high school district’s low-income eligible pupil count from the earlier federal census shall be the number used as the low-income eligible pupil count for the high school district, for purposes of this subsection (H).

Medicaid, KidCare, TANF, or Food Stamps, excluding pupils who are eligible for services provided by the Department of Children and Family Services, averaged HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 18 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b over the 2 immediately preceding fiscal years for fiscal year 2004 and over the 3 immediately preceding fiscal years for each fiscal year thereafter) divided by the Average Daily Attendance of the school district.

(a) For any school district with a Low Income Concentration Level of less than 10%, the grant for each HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 19 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b school year shall be $355 multiplied by the low income eligible pupil count.

For the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 school year only, the grant HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 20 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b shall be no less than the grant for the 2002-2003 school year.

(4) School districts with an Average Daily Attendance of 50,000 or more that qualify for supplemental general State aid HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 21 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b pursuant to this subsection shall be required to distribute from funds available pursuant to this Section, no less than $261,000,000 in accordance with the following requirements:

(e) Funds received by an attendance center pursuant to this subsection shall be used by the attendance center at the discretion of the principal and local school council for programs to improve educational opportunities at qualifying schools through the following programs and HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 22 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b services:

If the district fails to distribute State aid to attendance centers in accordance with an approved plan, the plan for the following year shall allocate funds, in addition to the funds otherwise required by this subsection, to those attendance centers which were underfunded during the previous year in amounts equal to HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 23 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b such underfunding.

If the computation on the HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 24 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b basis of the previously existing districts is greater, a supplementary payment equal to the difference shall be made for the first 4 years of existence of the new district.

and if the aggregate of the general State aid and supplemental general State aid as so computed for the annexing or resulting districts as constituted after the annexation or division is less than the aggregate of the HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 25 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b general State aid and supplemental general State aid as so computed for the annexing and annexed districts, or for the resulting and divided districts, as constituted prior to the annexation or division, then a supplementary payment equal to the difference shall be made and allocated between or among the annexing or resulting districts, as constituted upon such annexation or division, for the first 4 years of their existence.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, the amount of the aggregate general State aid in combination with supplemental general State aid under this Section for HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 26 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b which each school district is eligible shall be no less than the amount of the aggregate general State aid entitlement that was received by the district under Section 18-8 (exclusive of amounts received under subsections 5(p) and 5(p-5) of that Section) for the 1997-98 school year, pursuant to the provisions of that Section as it was then in effect.

HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 27 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b As used in this Section, "laboratory school" means a public school which is created and operated by a public university and approved by the State Board of Education.

HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 28 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b (L) Payments, Additional Grants in Aid and Other Requirements.

The regular term of each member of the Board shall be for 4 years from the third Monday of January of the year in which the term of the member’s appointment is to commence, except that of the 5 initial members appointed to serve on the Board, the member who is appointed as the chairperson shall serve for a term that commences on the date of his or her appointment and expires on HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 29 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b the third Monday of January, 2002, and the remaining 4 members, by lots drawn at the first meeting of the Board that is held after all 5 members are appointed, shall determine 2 of their number to serve for terms that commence on the date of their respective appointments and expire on the third Monday of January, 2001, and 2 of their number to serve for terms that commence on the date of their respective appointments and expire on the third Monday of January, 2000.

For school years after the 2000-2001 school year, the Education Funding Advisory Board, in consultation with the State Board of Education, shall make recommendations as provided in this subsection (M) to the General Assembly for the foundation level under subdivision (B)(3) of this Section and HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 30 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b for the supplemental general State aid grant level under subsection (H) of this Section for districts with high concentrations of children from poverty.

HB0404 EngrossedEnrolled - 31 - LRB094 06639 NHT 36733 b 93-875, eff.