Bill Text: IL SB2364 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning an early childhood education block grant.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-4)
Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB2364 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB2364-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | 1C-2 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/1C-2)
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7 | Sec. 1C-2. Block grants.
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8 | (a) For fiscal year 1999, and
and each fiscal year | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | thereafter, the State Board
of Education shall award to school | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | districts block grants as described in subsection
(c). The | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | State Board of Education may adopt
rules and regulations | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | necessary to implement this Section. In accordance with
Section | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | 2-3.32, all state block grants are subject to an audit. | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | Therefore,
block grant receipts and block grant expenditures | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | shall be recorded to the
appropriate fund code. | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | (b) (Blank).
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17 | (c) An Early Childhood Education Block Grant shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | created by combining
the following programs: Preschool | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | Education, Parental Training and Prevention
Initiative. These | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | funds shall be distributed to school districts and other
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21 | entities on a competitive basis, except that the State Board of | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | Education shall award to a school district having a population | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | exceeding 500,000 inhabitants 37% of the funds in each fiscal |
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1 | year. Not less than 14% of the Early Childhood Education Block | ||||||
2 | Grant allocation of funds
shall be used to
fund programs for | ||||||
3 | children ages 0-3. Beginning in Fiscal Year 2016, at least 25% | ||||||
4 | of any additional Early Childhood Education Block Grant funding | ||||||
5 | over and above the previous fiscal year's allocation shall be | ||||||
6 | used to fund programs for children ages 0-3. Once the | ||||||
7 | percentage of Early Childhood Education Block Grant funding | ||||||
8 | allocated to programs for children ages 0-3 reaches 20% of the | ||||||
9 | overall Early Childhood Education Block Grant allocation for a | ||||||
10 | full fiscal year, thereafter in subsequent fiscal years the | ||||||
11 | percentage of Early Childhood Education Block Grant funding | ||||||
12 | allocated to programs for children ages 0-3 each fiscal year | ||||||
13 | shall remain at least 20% of the overall Early Childhood | ||||||
14 | Education Block Grant allocation. However, if, in a given | ||||||
15 | fiscal year, the amount appropriated for the Early Childhood | ||||||
16 | Education Block Grant is insufficient to increase the | ||||||
17 | percentage of the grant to fund programs for children ages 0-3 | ||||||
18 | without reducing the amount of the grant for existing providers | ||||||
19 | of preschool education programs, then the percentage of the | ||||||
20 | grant to fund programs for children ages 0-3 may be held steady | ||||||
21 | instead of increased.
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22 | (Source: P.A. 99-589, eff. 7-21-16; 100-465, eff. 8-31-17.)
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