Bill Text: IL SB0736 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Construction Law. Provides that school districts shall receive a priority ranking from the State Board of Education within 90 days of the end of the current year's application cycle. Requires the State Board of Education to priority rank, by grant year, all school districts that have been waiting for longer than 90 days for school construction project grant funds.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB0736 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB0736-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 SB0736 Introduced 2/3/2015, by Sen. Karen McConnaughay SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 230/5-30
Amends the School Construction Law. Provides that school districts shall receive a priority ranking from the State Board of Education within 90 days of the end of the current year's application cycle. Requires the State Board of Education to priority rank, by grant year, all school districts that have been waiting for longer than 90 days for school construction project grant funds.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Construction Law is amended by
changing Section 5-30 as follows:
(105 ILCS 230/5-30)
Sec. 5-30. Priority of school construction projects. The
State Board of Education shall develop standards for the
determination of priority needs concerning school construction
projects based upon approved district facilities plans. Such
standards shall call for prioritization based on the degree of
need and project type in the following order:
(1) Replacement or reconstruction of school buildings
destroyed or damaged by flood, tornado, fire, earthquake,
mine subsidence, or other disasters, either man-made or
produced by nature;
(2) Projects designed to alleviate a shortage of
classrooms due to population growth or to replace or
rehabilitate aging school buildings;
(3) Projects resulting from interdistrict
reorganization of school districts contingent on local
referenda;
(4) Replacement, rehabilitation, or reconstruction of

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school facilities determined to be severe and continuing
health or life safety hazards;
(5) Alterations necessary to provide accessibility for
qualified individuals with disabilities; and
(6) Other unique solutions to facility needs.
Except for those changes absolutely necessary to comply with
the changes made to subsection (c) of Section 5-25 of this Law
by Public Act 96-37, the State Board of Education may not make
any material changes to the standards in effect on May 18,
2004, unless the State Board of Education is specifically
authorized by law.
School districts shall receive a priority ranking from the
State Board of Education within 90 days of the end of the
current year's application cycle. The State Board of Education
shall priority rank, by grant year, all school districts that
have been waiting for longer than 90 days for school
construction project grant funds.
(Source: P.A. 96-37, eff. 7-13-09; 96-102, eff. 7-29-09;
96-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 97-880, eff. 8-2-12.)