Bill Text: IL HB2395 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning an early childhood education block grant.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB2395 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB2395-Introduced.html
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 1C-2 as follows:
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/1C-2)
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 1C-2. Block grants.
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | (a) For fiscal year 1999, and
and each fiscal year | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | thereafter, the State Board
of Education shall award to school | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | districts block grants as described in subsection
(c). The | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | State Board of Education may adopt
rules and regulations | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | necessary to implement this Section. In accordance with
Section | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | 2-3.32, all state block grants are subject to an audit. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Therefore,
block grant receipts and block grant expenditures | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | shall be recorded to the
appropriate fund code. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | (b) (Blank).
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | (c) An Early Childhood Education Block Grant shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | created by combining
the following programs: Preschool | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | Education, Parental Training and Prevention
Initiative. These | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | funds shall be distributed to school districts and other
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | entities on a competitive basis. Not less than 11% of this | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | grant
shall be used to
fund programs for children ages 0-3, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | which percentage shall increase to at least 20% by Fiscal Year | |||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | 2015. However, if, in a given fiscal year, the amount | ||||||
| 2 | appropriated for the Early Childhood Education Block Grant is | ||||||
| 3 | insufficient to increase the percentage of the grant to fund | ||||||
| 4 | programs for children ages 0-3 without reducing the amount of | ||||||
| 5 | the grant for existing providers of preschool education | ||||||
| 6 | programs, then the percentage of the grant to fund programs for | ||||||
| 7 | children ages 0-3 may be held steady instead of increased.
| ||||||
| 8 | (Source: P.A. 95-793, eff. 1-1-09; 96-423, eff. 8-13-09.)
| ||||||
