Illinois Senate Bill 197 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Failed on January 13 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Charter Schools Law of the School Code. Provides that a charter school established on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act may not enter into a contract with a for-profit charter management organization or educational management organization. Sets forth provisions concerning property purchased with public funds. Provides that no chief executive officer of a charter school may receive compensation greater than 80% of the compensation of the superintendent of schools of the school district where the charter school is located. Provides that no charter school principal may receive compensation greater than 10% more than the average compensation for principals in the school district where the charter school is located. Provides that a charter school authorized under the Code must expend a minimum of 84% of the total revenues due from the authorizer on incurred expenses for instruction, instructional materials, operations and maintenance, transportation, and support services that may have been applicable prior to July 1, 2018, as identified by the State Board of Education. Provides that the remaining 16% of the total revenues may, subject to limitations, be expended by the charter school, at its discretion, on administrative or program support costs.

SCH CD-CHARTER SCHOOLS

Sen. Jacqueline Collins [D]

Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-13	Senate	Session Sine Die
2019-03-28	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2019-03-27	Senate	Postponed-Education
2019-03-22	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As March 28, 2019
2019-03-05	Senate	To Subcommittee on Charter Schools
2019-03-04	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant
2019-02-06	Senate	Assigned to Education
2019-01-30	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2019-01-30	Senate	First Reading
2019-01-30	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
105	5	27A-10.5	Amended Code	Citation Text
105	5	27A-11.10	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=197&GAID=15&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/SB/10100SB0197.htm