Illinois House Bill 4439 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-01-15 - Referred to Rules Committee
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creates the Continuing Appropriation for Education Act to require a Common School Fund recommendation by the Governor in the annual budget and annual Common School Fund appropriations by the General Assembly sufficient to fund general State aid and to require an irrevocable and continuing appropriation if the General Assembly fails to make sufficient Common School Fund appropriations. Amends the School Code. Removes language that provides that the Block Grants Article does not apply to the Chicago school district, repeals the Block Grants for Chicago Article, and makes related changes. Amends the State aid formula provisions to provide that the Foundation Level of support amount for the 2016-2017 school year and each school year thereafter is equal to the Foundation Level of support amount for the previous school year increased by 2%. Effective immediately.

EDUC-STATE AID-BLOCK GRANTS

Rep. Bill Mitchell [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-15	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2016-01-15	House	First Reading
2016-01-13	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Bill Mitchell

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
105	5	14-7.02b	Amended Code	Citation Text
105	5	14-7.05	Amended Code	Citation Text
105	5	18-8.05	Amended Code	Citation Text
105	5	1C-1	Amended Code	Citation Text
105	5	Art. 1D	Repealed Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=4439&GAID=13&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=88&GA=99
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/99/HB/09900HB4439.htm