Bill Text: IL SB0635 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Conversion and Formation of School Districts Article of the School Code. Within 3 years after the effective date of the amendatory Act, requires elementary school districts to form new school districts but only with other elementary school districts and high school districts to form new school districts but only with other high school districts, notwithstanding any referendum requirements or any other laws to the contrary. Provides that the State Board of Education shall facilitate the creation of the new school districts by providing recommendations on which districts must consolidate. Sets forth the factors that the State Board must take into consideration. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-16 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB0635 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB0635-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB0635 Introduced 2/24/2021, by Sen. Laura M. Murphy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/11E-132 new
Amends the Conversion and Formation of School Districts Article of the School Code. Within 3 years after the effective date of the amendatory Act, requires elementary school districts to form new school districts but only with other elementary school districts and high school districts to form new school districts but only with other high school districts, notwithstanding any referendum requirements or any other laws to the contrary. Provides that the State Board of Education shall facilitate the creation of the new school districts by providing recommendations on which districts must consolidate. Sets forth the factors that the State Board must take into consideration. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section
11E-132 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/11E-132 new)
Sec. 11E-132. Elementary and high school district
consolidation required. Within 3 years after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly,
elementary school districts shall form new school districts
but only with other elementary school districts and high
school districts shall form new school districts but only with
other high school districts, notwithstanding any referendum
requirements or any other laws to the contrary. The State
Board of Education shall facilitate the creation of the new
school districts by providing recommendations on which
districts must consolidate. The State Board shall take into
consideration the location of the affected districts in
relationship to each other, the school needs and conditions of
the affected districts and in the area adjacent to those
districts, the classification of funds and assets that will
result from the consolidation, the best interests of the
schools of the affected districts, and the best interests and

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the educational welfare of the pupils residing in the affected
districts.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.