Bill Amendment: IL SB0238 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly

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Bill Title: EARLY CHILD EDUC BLOCK GRANT

Status: 2016-07-21 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0589 [SB0238 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB0238-Senate_Amendment_001.html

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Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford

Filed: 4/12/2016

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 238
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 238 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
1C-2 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/1C-2)
Sec. 1C-2. Block grants.
(a) For fiscal year 1999, and each fiscal year thereafter,
the State Board of Education shall award to school districts
block grants as described in subsection (c). The State Board of
Education may adopt rules and regulations necessary to
implement this Section. In accordance with Section 2-3.32, all
state block grants are subject to an audit. Therefore, block
grant receipts and block grant expenditures shall be recorded
to the appropriate fund code.
(b) (Blank).

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(c) An Early Childhood Education Block Grant shall be
created by combining the following programs: Preschool
Education, Parental Training and Prevention Initiative. These
funds shall be distributed to school districts and other
entities on a competitive basis. Not less than 14% of the Early
Childhood Education Block Grant allocation of funds this grant
shall be used to fund programs for children ages 0-3, which
percentage shall increase to at least 20% by Fiscal Year 2016.
Beginning in Fiscal Year 2016, at least 25% of any additional
Early Childhood Education Block Grant funding over and above
the previous fiscal year's allocation shall be used to fund
programs for children ages 0-3. Once the percentage of Early
Childhood Education Block Grant funding allocated to programs
for children ages 0-3 reaches 20% of the overall Early
Childhood Education Block Grant allocation for a full fiscal
year, thereafter in subsequent fiscal years the percentage of
Early Childhood Education Block Grant funding allocated to
programs for children ages 0-3 each fiscal year shall remain at
least 20% of the overall Early Childhood Education Block Grant
allocation. However, if, in a given fiscal year, the amount
appropriated for the Early Childhood Education Block Grant is
insufficient to increase the percentage of the grant to fund
programs for children ages 0-3 without reducing the amount of
the grant for existing providers of preschool education
programs, then the percentage of the grant to fund programs for
children ages 0-3 may be held steady instead of increased.

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(Source: P.A. 98-645, eff. 7-1-14.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".