Bill Text: IL SB0579 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a prohibition.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0579 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB0579-Amended.html

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Rep. Thaddeus Jones

Filed: 5/23/2014

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 579
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 579 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
2-3.62 and 3-0.01 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/2-3.62) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.62)
Sec. 2-3.62. Educational Service Centers.
(a) A regional network of educational service centers shall
be established by the State Board of Education to coordinate
and combine existing services in a manner which is practical
and efficient and to provide new services to schools as
provided in this Section. Services to be made available by such
centers shall include the planning, implementation and
evaluation of:
(1) (blank);
(2) computer technology education;

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(3) mathematics, science and reading resources for
teachers including continuing education, inservice
training and staff development.
The centers may provide training, technical assistance,
coordination and planning in other program areas such as school
improvement, school accountability, financial planning,
consultation, and services, career guidance, early childhood
education, alcohol/drug education and prevention, family life -
sex education, electronic transmission of data from school
districts to the State, alternative education and regional
special education, and telecommunications systems that provide
distance learning. Such telecommunications systems may be
obtained through the Department of Central Management Services
pursuant to Section 405-270 of the Department of Central
Management Services Law (20 ILCS 405/405-270). The programs and
services of educational service centers may be offered to
private school teachers and private school students within each
service center area provided public schools have already been
afforded adequate access to such programs and services.
Upon the abolition of the office, removal from office,
disqualification for office, resignation from office, or
expiration of the current term of office of the regional
superintendent of schools, whichever is earlier, the chief
administrative officer of the centers serving that portion of a
Class II county school unit outside of a city of 500,000 or
more inhabitants shall have and exercise, in and with respect

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to each educational service region having a population of
2,000,000 or more inhabitants and in and with respect to each
school district located in any such educational service region,
all of the rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities
theretofore vested by law in and exercised and performed by the
regional superintendent of schools for that area under the
provisions of this Code or any other laws of this State.
The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and
regulations necessary to implement this Section. The rules
shall include detailed standards which delineate the scope and
specific content of programs to be provided by each Educational
Service Center, as well as the specific planning,
implementation and evaluation services to be provided by each
Center relative to its programs. The Board shall also provide
the standards by which it will evaluate the programs provided
by each Center.
(b) Centers serving Class 1 county school units shall be
governed by an 11-member board, 3 members of which shall be
public school teachers nominated by the local bargaining
representatives to the appropriate regional superintendent for
appointment and no more than 3 members of which shall be from
each of the following categories, including but not limited to
superintendents, regional superintendents, school board
members and a representative of an institution of higher
education. The members of the board shall be appointed by the
regional superintendents whose school districts are served by

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the educational service center. The composition of the board
will reflect the revisions of this amendatory Act of 1989 as
the terms of office of current members expire.
(c) The centers shall be of sufficient size and number to
assure delivery of services to all local school districts in
the State.
(d) From monies appropriated for this program the State
Board of Education shall provide grants paid from the Personal
Property Tax Replacement Fund to qualifying Educational
Service Centers applying for such grants in accordance with
rules and regulations promulgated by the State Board of
Education to implement this Section.
(e) The governing authority of each of the 18 regional
educational service centers shall appoint a family life - sex
education advisory board consisting of 2 parents, 2 teachers, 2
school administrators, 2 school board members, 2 health care
professionals, one library system representative, and the
director of the regional educational service center who shall
serve as chairperson of the advisory board so appointed.
Members of the family life - sex education advisory boards
shall serve without compensation. Each of the advisory boards
appointed pursuant to this subsection shall develop a plan for
regional teacher-parent family life - sex education training
sessions and shall file a written report of such plan with the
governing board of their regional educational service center.
The directors of each of the regional educational service

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centers shall thereupon meet, review each of the reports
submitted by the advisory boards and combine those reports into
a single written report which they shall file with the Citizens
Council on School Problems prior to the end of the regular
school term of the 1987-1988 school year.
(f) The 14 educational service centers serving Class I
county school units shall be disbanded on the first Monday of
August, 1995, and their statutory responsibilities and
programs shall be assumed by the regional offices of education,
subject to rules and regulations developed by the State Board
of Education. The regional superintendents of schools elected
by the voters residing in all Class I counties shall serve as
the chief administrators for these programs and services. By
rule of the State Board of Education, the 10 educational
service regions of lowest population shall provide such
services under cooperative agreements with larger regions.
(Source: P.A. 97-619, eff. 11-14-11; 98-24, eff. 6-19-13.)
(105 ILCS 5/3-0.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-0.01)
Sec. 3-0.01. "County superintendent of schools" and
"regional superintendent of schools" defined - Application of
Article.
(a) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (b), after
the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1975, the chief
administrative officer of an educational service region shall
be designated and referred to as the "regional superintendent

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of schools" or the "regional superintendent" and after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993 the office held
by the chief administrative officer shall be designated and
referred to as the "regional office of education". For purposes
of the School Code and except as otherwise provided by
subsection (b), any reference to "county superintendent of
schools" or "county superintendent" means the regional
superintendent of schools.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Article,
but subject to subsection (b-1), in educational service regions
containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, the office of
regional superintendent of schools is abolished. Subject to
Section 2-3.105 of this Code, beginning on July 1, 2010 (the
effective date of Public Act 96-893) this amendatory Act of the
96th General Assembly, all rights, powers, duties and
responsibilities theretofore vested by law in, and exercised
and performed by the regional superintendent of schools and by
any assistant regional superintendents or other assistants or
employees in the office of the regional superintendent of
schools being abolished shall be vested in, exercised and
performed by the chief administrative officer of the
educational service centers established pursuant to Section
2-3.62 of this Code for any educational service region
containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants. Beginning on the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
Assembly, in an educational service region containing

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2,000,000 or more inhabitants: (i) all books, records, maps,
papers and other documents belonging to or subject to the
control or disposition of the former regional superintendent of
schools by virtue of his office shall be transferred and
delivered to the State Board of Education; (ii) possession or
control over all moneys, deposits and accounts in the
possession or subject to the control or disposition of the
former regional superintendent of schools by virtue of his
office, including but not limited to undistributed or
unexpended moneys drawn from, and all amounts on deposit in,
the county, institute and supervisory expense funds, shall be
transferred to and placed under the control and disposition of
the State Board of Education, excepting only those moneys or
accounts, if any, the source of which is the county treasury,
for proper redistribution to the educational service centers;
and (iii) all other equipment, furnishings, supplies and other
personal property belonging to or subject to the control or
disposition of the former regional superintendent of schools by
virtue of his office, excepting only those items which were
provided by the county board, shall be transferred and
delivered to the State Board of Education. Beginning on July 1,
2010 (the effective date of Public Act 96-893) this amendatory
Act of the 96th General Assembly, any reference in this Code to
"regional superintendent of schools" or "regional
superintendent", or "county superintendent of schools" or
"county superintendent" shall mean, with respect to any

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educational service region containing 2,000,000 or more
inhabitants in which the office of regional superintendent of
schools is abolished, the chief administrative officer of the
educational service centers established pursuant to Section
2-3.62 of this Code for the educational service region. Upon
and after the first Monday of August 1995, references in this
Code and elsewhere to educational service regions of 2,000,000
or fewer inhabitants shall exclude any educational service
region containing a city of 500,000 or more inhabitants and
references in this Code and elsewhere to educational service
regions of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants shall mean an
educational service region containing a city of 500,000 or more
inhabitants regardless of the actual population of the region.
(b-1) References to "regional superintendent" shall also
include the chief administrative officer of the educational
service centers established under Section 2-3.62 of this Code
and serving that portion of a Class II county outside a city of
500,000 or more population elected at the general election in
1994 and every 4 years thereafter.
(c) This Article applies to the regional superintendent of
a multicounty educational service region formed under Article
3A as well as to a single county or partial county region,
except that in case of conflict between the provisions of this
Article and of Article 3A in the case of a multicounty region,
the provisions of Article 3A shall apply. Any reference to
"county" or to "educational service region" in this Article

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means a regional office of education.
(Source: P.A. 96-893, eff. 7-1-10.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".