Bill Text: IL HB2093 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board Act. Provides that on or before December 15, 2019, and on or before each December 15 thereafter, the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board must review labor market data and projections in this State and must submit to the State Board of Education and the Illinois Community College Board a list of each career area, along with a designation of one of 3 categories. Amends the Vocational Academies Act. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2020, the State Board must allocate grants to vocational academies with consideration to certain factors. Provides that on or before December 15, 2020, and on or before each December 15 thereafter, the State Board must report to the General Assembly enrollment and completion data for each vocational academy and the number and type of pathway endorsements issued to students under a Community Partnership for Pathway Endorsement grant program. Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation and allocation of matching grants through the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, the Illinois Community College Board must administer a program to provide Community Partnership for Pathway Endorsement grants to community college districts; specifies grant requirements. Provides that no more than 20 grants may be awarded each year and the grant amount must be at least $40,000 for a partnership that serves 5 high schools and may be up to $75,000 for a partnership that serves more than 5 high schools. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 40-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-08-29 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anna Moeller [HB2093 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2093-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2093 Introduced , by Rep. Fred Crespo SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 3975/4.7 new
105 ILCS 433/15
105 ILCS 433/20 new
110 ILCS 805/2-16.02 from Ch. 122, par. 102-16.02
Amends the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board Act. Provides that on or before December 15, 2019, and on or before each December 15 thereafter, the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board must review labor market data and projections in this State and must submit to the State Board of Education and the Illinois Community College Board a list of each career area, along with a designation of one of 3 categories. Amends the Vocational Academies Act. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2020, the State Board must allocate grants to vocational academies with consideration to certain factors. Provides that on or before December 15, 2020, and on or before each December 15 thereafter, the State Board must report to the General Assembly enrollment and completion data for each vocational academy and the number and type of pathway endorsements issued to students under a Community Partnership for Pathway Endorsement grant program. Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation and allocation of matching grants through the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, the Illinois Community College Board must administer a program to provide Community Partnership for Pathway Endorsement grants to community college districts; specifies grant requirements. Provides that no more than 20 grants may be awarded each year and the grant amount must be at least $40,000 for a partnership that serves 5 high schools and may be up to $75,000 for a partnership that serves more than 5 high schools. 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 Illinois Workforce Innovation Board Act is
amended by adding Section 4.7 as follows:
(20 ILCS 3975/4.7 new)
Sec. 4.7. Valuing career areas for educational purposes. On
or before December 15, 2019, and on or before each December 15
thereafter, the Board must review labor market data and
projections in this State. The Board must submit to the State
Board of Education and the Illinois Community College Board a
list of each career area in this State, with each of these
career areas being designated as one of the following:
(1) "High value", which means a career area that the
Board recognizes as having a high employment demand and a
high average wage level, a high employment demand and a
moderate average wage level, or a moderate employment
demand and a high average wage level.
(2) "Moderate value", which means a career area that
the Board recognizes as having a moderate employment demand
and a moderate average wage level, a high employment demand
and a low average wage level, or a low employment demand
and a high average wage level.

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(3) "Low value", which means a career area that the
Board recognizes as having a low employment demand and a
low average wage level, a moderate employment demand and a
low average wage level, or a low employment demand and a
moderate average wage level.
For a particular career area, the list may specify different
designations for different regions of this State.
Section 10. The Vocational Academies Act is amended by
changing Section 15 and by adding Section 20 as follows:
(105 ILCS 433/15)
Sec. 15. Grants.
(a) Subject to appropriation or other available federal or
private funding, the State Board of Education may provide
grants to vocational academies that meet the requirements of
this Act.
(b) Beginning July 1, 2020, the State Board must consider
all of the following factors when allocating grants to
vocational academies under this Section:
(1) The number and proportion of students served who
are eligible for a free or reduced-price lunch under the
federal Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act.
(2) The number of course enrollments in programs of
study that are designated by the Illinois Workforce
Innovation Board as "high value", "moderate value", or "low

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value" under Section 4.7 of the Illinois Workforce
Innovation Board Act.
(3) The number of course enrollments by sequence of
course, including introductory courses and secondary or
higher education courses, within a program of study.
(c) After receiving a list under Section 4.7 of the
Illinois Workforce Innovation Board Act, the State Board must
adopt a methodology by which the next school year's grants will
be allocated under this Section. The methodology must
incentivize completion of pathway sequences, enrollment in
programs of study in high value career areas, and equity in
enrollment in high value career area courses for low-income
students.
(Source: P.A. 94-220, eff. 7-14-05.)
(105 ILCS 433/20 new)
Sec. 20. Report. On or before December 15, 2020, and on or
before each December 15 thereafter, the State Board of
Education must report to the General Assembly enrollment and
completion data for each vocational academy and the number and
type of pathway endorsements issued to students under Section
2-16.02 of the Public Community College Act.
Section 15. The Public Community College Act is amended by
changing Section 2-16.02 as follows:

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(110 ILCS 805/2-16.02) (from Ch. 122, par. 102-16.02)
Sec. 2-16.02. Grants. Any community college district that
maintains a community college recognized by the State Board
shall receive, when eligible, grants enumerated in this
Section. Funded semester credit hours or other measures or both
as specified by the State Board shall be used to distribute
grants to community colleges. Funded semester credit hours
shall be defined, for purposes of this Section, as the greater
of (1) the number of semester credit hours, or equivalent, in
all funded instructional categories of students who have been
certified as being in attendance at midterm during the
respective terms of the base fiscal year or (2) the average of
semester credit hours, or equivalent, in all funded
instructional categories of students who have been certified as
being in attendance at midterm during the respective terms of
the base fiscal year and the 2 prior fiscal years. For purposes
of this Section, "base fiscal year" means the fiscal year 2
years prior to the fiscal year for which the grants are
appropriated. Such students shall have been residents of
Illinois and shall have been enrolled in courses that are part
of instructional program categories approved by the State Board
and that are applicable toward an associate degree or
certificate. Courses that are eligible for reimbursement are
those courses for which the district pays 50% or more of the
program costs from unrestricted revenue sources, with the
exception of dual credit courses and courses offered by

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contract with the Department of Corrections in correctional
institutions. For the purposes of this Section, "unrestricted
revenue sources" means those revenues in which the provider of
the revenue imposes no financial limitations upon the district
as it relates to the expenditure of the funds. Except for
Fiscal Year 2012, base operating grants shall be paid based on
rates per funded semester credit hour or equivalent calculated
by the State Board for funded instructional categories using
cost of instruction, enrollment, inflation, and other relevant
factors. For Fiscal Year 2012, the allocations for base
operating grants to community college districts shall be the
same as they were in Fiscal Year 2011, reduced or increased
proportionately according to the appropriation for base
operating grants for Fiscal Year 2012.
Equalization grants shall be calculated by the State Board
by determining a local revenue factor for each district by: (A)
adding (1) each district's Corporate Personal Property
Replacement Fund allocations from the base fiscal year or the
average of the base fiscal year and prior year, whichever is
less, divided by the applicable statewide average tax rate to
(2) the district's most recently audited year's equalized
assessed valuation or the average of the most recently audited
year and prior year, whichever is less, (B) then dividing by
the district's audited full-time equivalent resident students
for the base fiscal year or the average for the base fiscal
year and the 2 prior fiscal years, whichever is greater, and

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(C) then multiplying by the applicable statewide average tax
rate. The State Board shall calculate a statewide weighted
average threshold by applying the same methodology to the
totals of all districts' Corporate Personal Property Tax
Replacement Fund allocations, equalized assessed valuations,
and audited full-time equivalent district resident students
and multiplying by the applicable statewide average tax rate.
The difference between the statewide weighted average
threshold and the local revenue factor, multiplied by the
number of full-time equivalent resident students, shall
determine the amount of equalization funding that each district
is eligible to receive. A percentage factor, as determined by
the State Board, may be applied to the statewide threshold as a
method for allocating equalization funding. A minimum
equalization grant of an amount per district as determined by
the State Board shall be established for any community college
district which qualifies for an equalization grant based upon
the preceding criteria, but becomes ineligible for
equalization funding, or would have received a grant of less
than the minimum equalization grant, due to threshold
prorations applied to reduce equalization funding. As of July
1, 2013, a community college district eligible to receive an
equalization grant based upon the preceding criteria must
maintain a minimum required combined in-district tuition and
universal fee rate per semester credit hour equal to 70% of the
State-average combined rate, as determined by the State Board,

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or the total revenue received by the community college district
from combined in-district tuition and universal fees must be at
least 30% of the total revenue received by the community
college district, as determined by the State Board, for
equalization funding. As of July 1, 2004, a community college
district must maintain a minimum required operating tax rate
equal to at least 95% of its maximum authorized tax rate to
qualify for equalization funding. This 95% minimum tax rate
requirement shall be based upon the maximum operating tax rate
as limited by the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
Subject to appropriation and allocation of matching grants
through the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical
Education Act of 2006, the State Board must administer a
program, in coordination with Northern Illinois University, to
provide Community Partnership for Pathway Endorsement grants
to community college districts. To qualify for a grant, a
community college district must submit an application to the
State Board that includes all of the following:
(1) An agreement between the community college
district and other entities, including school districts in
the region, employers or employer associations, a local
workforce innovation board, at least one State university,
and community-based organizations, setting forth the
approach of the partnership and which entity will manage
the grant funds.
(2) Identification of at least 2 regional economic

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development priority areas in which the partners will
develop endorsements.
(3) A commitment from employer and postsecondary
partners to establish recognition of and incentives for
endorsements.
No more than 20 grants may be awarded each year. The grant
amount must be at least $40,000 for a partnership that serves 5
high schools and may be up to $75,000 for a partnership that
serves more than 5 high schools. The State Board may retain up
to 5% of the appropriation for grants to support implementation
and to conduct semiannual conventions bringing together
partners from different regions of this State.
The State Board shall distribute such other grants as may
be authorized or appropriated by the General Assembly.
Each community college district entitled to State grants
under this Section must submit a report of its enrollment to
the State Board not later than 30 days following the end of
each semester or term in a format prescribed by the State
Board. These semester credit hours, or equivalent, shall be
certified by each district on forms provided by the State
Board. Each district's certified semester credit hours, or
equivalent, are subject to audit pursuant to Section 3-22.1.
The State Board shall certify, prepare, and submit monthly
vouchers to the State Comptroller setting forth an amount equal
to one-twelfth of the grants approved by the State Board for
base operating grants and equalization grants. The State Board

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shall prepare and submit to the State Comptroller vouchers for
payments of other grants as appropriated by the General
Assembly. If the amount appropriated for grants is different
from the amount provided for such grants under this Act, the
grants shall be proportionately reduced or increased
accordingly.
For the purposes of this Section, "resident student" means
a student in a community college district who maintains
residency in that district or meets other residency definitions
established by the State Board, and who was enrolled either in
one of the approved instructional program categories in that
district, or in another community college district to which the
resident's district is paying tuition under Section 6-2 or with
which the resident's district has entered into a cooperative
agreement in lieu of such tuition. Students shall be classified
as residents of the community college district without meeting
the 30-day residency requirement of the district if they are
currently residing in the district and are youth (i) who are
currently under the legal guardianship of the Illinois
Department of Children and Family Services or have recently
been emancipated from the Department and (ii) who had
previously met the 30-day residency requirement of the district
but who had a placement change into a new community college
district. The student, a caseworker or other personnel of the
Department, or the student's attorney or guardian ad litem
appointed under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 shall provide

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the district with proof of current in-district residency.
For the purposes of this Section, a "full-time equivalent"
student is equal to 30 semester credit hours.
The Illinois Community College Board Contracts and Grants
Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. Items of income
to this fund shall include any grants, awards, endowments, or
like proceeds, and where appropriate, other funds made
available through contracts with governmental, public, and
private agencies or persons. The General Assembly shall from
time to time make appropriations payable from such fund for the
support, improvement, and expenses of the State Board and
Illinois community college districts.
(Source: P.A. 99-845, eff. 1-1-17; 100-884, eff. 1-1-19.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.