SB2475
A BILL FOR
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB2475
Introduced 2/21/2023, by Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr.
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent
expenses of the Illinois State Board of Education and teacher
retirement contributions for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
2023, as follows:
General Funds $10,328,862,300
Other State Funds $ 97,963,700
Federal Funds $ 8,414,056,900
Total $18,840,882,900
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AN ACT concerning appropriations. 1
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented 2
in the General Assembly: 3
ARTICLE 1 4
Section 1. The amount of $24,540,000, or so much thereof as 5
may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund 6
to the Illinois State Board of Education to meet its operational 7
expenses for the fiscal year begi nning July 1, 2023. 8
Section 5. The following amounts, or so much thereof as 9
may be necessary, are appropriated to the Illinois State Board 10
of Education for Evidence -Based Funding, provided for in 11
Section 18-8.15 of the School Code: 12
Payable from the Education Assistance Fund ........511,589,400 13
Payable from the Common School Fund .............3,213,015,600 14
Payable from the General Revenue Fund ...........3,715,633,300 15
Payable from the Fund for the Advancement 16
of Education ................................ .....839,000,700 17
Total $8,279,239,000 18
Section 10. The following amounts, or so much thereof as 19
may be necessary, which shall be used by the Illinois State Board 20 SB2475 -2- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
of Education exclusively for the foregoing purposes and not, 1
under any circumstances, for personal services expenditures or 2
other operational or administrative costs, are appropriated to 3
the Illinois State Board of Education for the fiscal year 4
beginning July 1, 2023: 5
From the General Revenue Fund: 6
For a grant to Learning Ally for services for 7
Blind/Dyslexic Persons ............................. 846,000 8
For Disabled Student Transportation 9
Reimbursement ................................ ..437,366,100 10
For Disabled Student Tuition, 11
Private Tuition, including prior year costs ....202,732,400 12
For District Consolidation Costs/ 13
Supplemental Payments to School Districts ...........80,000 14
For a grant to Illinois State University for Autism 15
Training & Technical Assistance .................... 100,000 16
For the Philip J. Rock Center 17
and School ................................ .......4,119,800 18
For Reimbursement for the Free Breakfast/ 19
Lunch Program ................................ ....9,000,000 20
For Tax-Equivalent Grants, 18 -4.4 ...................275,000 21
For Transportation-Regular/Vocational 22
Common School Transportation 23
Reimbursement, 29-5 of the School Code ...................0 24
For a grant to Chicago Lighthouse for Visually 25 SB2475 -3- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
Impaired/Educational Materials Coordinating Unit, 1
14-11.01 of the School Code ...................... 1,421,100 2
For Regular Education Reimbursement 3
Per 18-3 of the School Code, including prior year 4
costs ................................ ...........8,000,000 5
For Special Education Reimbursement 6
Per 14-7.03 of the School Code, including prior year 7
costs ................................ .........118,919,500 8
For all costs associated with Alternative 9
Education/Regional Safe Schools ..................6,300,000 10
For Truants’ Alternative and Optional 11
Education Program ............................... 11,500,000 12
For a grant to Teach for America for the Teach for 13
America Program ................................ .1,000,000 14
For Agriculture Education Programs ................7,050,000 15
For Career and Techni cal Education ...............45,726,400 16
For a grant to Illinois State University 17
for its National Board Resource Center 18
for National Board Certified 19
Teachers ................................ .........1,500,000 20
From the Education Assistance Fund: 21
For Transportation-Regular/Vocational Common School 22
Transportation Reimbursement, 29 -5 of the School 23
Code ................................ .........$340,000,000 24
For Disabled Student Tuition, Private Tuition, including 25 SB2475 -4- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
prior year costs ................................ .......$0 1
For Disabled Student Transportation Reimbursement ........$0 2
Total $1,195,936,300 3
Section 15. The following amounts, or so much thereof as 4
may be necessary, are appropriated to the Illinois State Board 5
of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023: 6
From the General Revenue Fund: 7
For State and District Technology Support .........2,443,800 8
For Advanced Placement Classes ...................... 500,000 9
For Principal Mentoring and Recruitment Program ...1,800,000 10
For Low-Income Advanced Placement Fee .............2,500,000 11
For After School Matters .......................... 4,000,000 12
For After-School Programming ..................... 20,000,000 13
For the Southwest Organizing Project Parent 14
Mentoring Program ................................ 8,000,000 15
For Grant Accountability and Transparency Act and 16
Budgeting for Results Initiatives ..................300,000 17
Total $39,543,800 18
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Section 20. The amount of $673,138,100, or so much thereof 20
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue 21
Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for Early 22
Childhood Education. 23
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Section 25. The amount of $ 750,000, or so much thereof as 1
may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Reven ue Fund 2
to the Illinois State Board of Education for all costs 3
associated with the Community and Residential Services 4
Authority. 5
Section 30. The amount of $40 ,000,000, or so much thereof 6
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue 7
Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for Student 8
Assessments, including Bilingual Assessments. 9
Section 35. The amount of $615,100, or so much thereof as 10
may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund 11
to the Illinois St ate Board of Education for all costs 12
associated with Educator Misconduct Hearings and 13
Investigations. 14
Section 40. The amount of $500,000, or so much thereof as 15
may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund 16
to the Illinois State Board of Education for all costs 17
authorized by the Educator Licensure Article of the School 18
Code, including refunds. 19
Section 45. The amount of $3,000,000, or so much thereof 20
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue 21 SB2475 -6- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
Fund to the Illinois S tate Board of Education for all costs 1
associated with Computer Science Equity Program. 2
Section 50. The amount of $1,600,000, or so much thereof 3
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue 4
Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education f or all costs 5
associated with Dolly Parton ’s Imagination Library. 6
Section 55. The amount of $70,000,000, or so much thereof 7
as may be necessary is appropriated from the General Revenue 8
Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for grants, 9
contracts, and administrative expenses for costs associated 10
with teacher pipeline programs. 11
ARTICLE 2 12
Section 5. The amount of $6,000,000, or so much thereof as 13
may be necessary, is appropriated from the Teacher Certificate 14
Fee Revolving Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for 15
all costs authorized by the Educator Licen sure Article of the 16
School Code, including refunds. 17
Section 10. The amount of $ 8,484,800, or so much of that 18
amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the State 19
Board of Education Special Purpose Trust Fund to the Illinois 20 SB2475 -7- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
State Board of Education for expenditures by the Board in 1
accordance with grants, gifts, royalty payments, or dona tions 2
that the Board has received or may receive from any source, 3
public or private, in support of projects that are within the 4
lawful powers of the Board, including refunds. 5
Section 15. The amount of $8 ,150,000, or so much of that 6
amount as may be nec essary, is appropriated from the State 7
Board of Education Special Purpose Trust Fund to the Illinois 8
State Board of Education for its ordinary and contingent 9
expenses. 10
Section 20. The amount of $1,000,000, or so much thereof 11
as may be necessary, is app ropriated from the School District 12
Emergency Financial Assistance Fund for use by the Illinois 13
State Board of Education as provided in Section 1B -8 of the 14
School Code. 15
Section 25. The amount of $ 2,208,900, or so much thereof 16
as may be necessary, is app ropriated from the ISBE Teacher 17
Certificate Institute Fund to the Illinois State Board of 18
Education for costs authorized by the School Code, including 19
refunds. 20
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Section 30. The amount of $ 200,000, or so much of that 22 SB2475 -8- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
amount as may be necessary, is appro priated from the After -1
School Rescue Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for 2
its ordinary and contingent expenses. 3
Section 35. The amount of $ 600,000, or so much thereof as 4
may be necessary, is appropriated from the School 5
Infrastructure Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education 6
for its ordinary and contingent expenses. 7
Section 40. The amount of $1,000,000, or so much thereof 8
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the Temporary 9
Relocation Expenses Revolving Grant Fund for use by the 10
Illinois State Board of Education as provided in Section 2 -11
3.77 of the School Code. 12
Section 45. The amount of $ 1,050,000, or so much thereof 13
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the State Board of 14
Education Special Purpose Trust Fund to the Illin ois State 15
Board of Education for all costs associated with its Charter 16
School Department, per 105 ILCS 5/27A -7.5. 17
Section 50. The amount of $12,100,000, or so much thereof 18
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the Personal Property 19
Tax Replacement Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education 20
for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, for Regional 21 SB2475 -9- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
Superintendents’ and Assistants’ Compensation and Related 1
Benefits. 2
Section 55. The following amounts, or so much thereof as 3
may be necessary, are appropriated from the Personal Property 4
Tax Replacement Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education 5
for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023: 6
For Bus Driver Training ............................. 150,000 7
For Regional Superintendents’ Services ...........18,970,000 8
Total $19,120,000 9
Section 60. The following amounts, or so much thereof as 10
may be necessary, which shall be used by the Illinois State 11
Board of Education exclusively for the foregoing purposes and 12
not, under any circumstances, for personal services 13
expenditures or other operational or administrative costs, are 14
appropriated to the Illinois State Board of Education for the 15
fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023: 16
From the Drivers Education Fund: 17
For Driver Education ............................. 10,000,000 18
From the Charter Schools Revolving Loan Fund: 19
For Charter Schools Loans ........................... 200,000 20
From the School Technology Revolving Loan Fund: 21
For School Technology Loans, 2 -3.117a 22
of the School Code .............................. 7,500,00023 SB2475 -10- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
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Total $17,700,000 2
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Section 65. The amount of $8 50,000, or so much thereof as 4
may be necessary, is appropriated from the State Board of 5
Education Special Purpose Trust Fund to the Illinois State 6
Board of Education for Grant Accountability and Trans parency 7
Act and Budgeting for Results Initiatives. 8
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Section 70. The amount of $2, 500,000, or so much thereof 10
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the School STEAM 11
Grant Program Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for 12
the School STEAM Gra nt Program. 13
Section 75. The amount of $17, 000,000, or so much thereof 14
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the Freedom Schools 15
Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education for grants, 16
contracts, and administrative expenses for costs associated 17
with the freedom school network and programs. 18
ARTICLE 3 19
Section 5. The amount of $ 19,904,700, or so much of that 20
amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal 21
Department of Agriculture Fund to the Illinois State Board of 22 SB2475 -11- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
Education for its ordinary and contingent expenses. 1
Section 10. The amount of $ 2,900,000, or so much of that 2
amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal 3
Agency Services Fund to the Illinois State Board of Education 4
for its ordinary and contingent expenses. 5
Section 15. The amount of $ 50,869,800, or so much of that 6
amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal 7
Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of 8
Education for its ordinary and contingent expenses. 9
Section 20. The following amounts, or so much thereof as 10
may be necessary, are appropriated to the Illinois State Board 11
of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023: 12
From the SBE Federal Department of Agriculture Fund: 13
For Child Nutrition ........................... 1,250,000,000 14
From the SBE Federal Department of Education Fund: 15
For Title I ................................ ...1,200,000,000 16
For Title III ................................ ....56,000,000 17
For Title IV ................................ ....250,000,000 18
For Title V ................................ .......2,200,000 19
For Title X ................................ .......9,000,000 20 SB2475 -12- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
For Individuals with Disabilities Act, 1
Deaf/Blind for a grant to Philip J. Rock Center and School 2
for Project Reach ................................ .800,000 3
For Individuals with Disabilities Act, 4
Improvement Program ............................. 5,000,000 5
For Individuals with Disabilities Act, 6
Preschool ................................ ......41,000,000 7
For Grants for Vocational 8
Education – Basic .............................. 70,000,000 9
For Student Assessments .......................... 35,000,000 10
For Institute of Education Sciences Grant .........1,000,000 11
For Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration 12
Grant ................................ ...........3,600,000 13
For School-Based Mental Health Services ...........7,500,000 14
Total $2,931,100,000 15
Section 25. The amount of $160,000,000, or so much thereof 16
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal 17
Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of 18
Education for Title II, at the approximate costs below: 19
For Title II ................................ ..157,691,750 20
For a grant to the Illinois Principals Association in 21
support of the Ed Leader’s Network pl atform ...1,500,000 22
For a grant to the Illinois Association of School 23
Administrators for mentoring of new superintendents 24 SB2475 -13- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
in their first three years of service and 1
scholarships for female educational 2
leaders of color in the Aspiring 3
Superintendents Program ........................ 298,250 4
For a grant to or contract with the Illinois Principals 5
Association for the mentoring of principals and assistant 6
principals in schools identified for comprehensive 7
supports ................................ ........510,000 8
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Section 30. The amount of $949,576,400, or so much thereof 10
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal 11
Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of 12
Education for Individuals with Disabilities Act, IDEA, at the 13
approximate costs below: 14
For Individuals with Disabilities Act, IDEA ...947,810,000 15
For a grant to Illinois State University 16
for the Autism Learning and Supports Project ....686,400 17
For a grant to the University of Illinois for the Center 18
for Transition ................................ 1,000,000 19
For a grant to the Il linois Deaf and Hard of Hearing 20
Commission for the Illinois Deaf and Hard of Hearing 21
Program ................................ ..........80,000 22
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Section 35. The following amounts, or so much thereof as 24
may be necessary, are appropriated to the Illinois State Board 25 SB2475 -14- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
of Education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023: 1
From SBE Federal Agency Services Fund: 2
For Adolescent Health Programs ...................... 500,000 3
For Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ....5,300,000 4
For STOP School Violence and Mental Health 5
Programs ................................ ........1,000,000 6
For Preschool Development Grant Birth 7
Through Five ................................ ....35,000,000 8
Total $41,800,000 9
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Section 40. The amount of $5 ,738,400, or so much of that 11
amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal 12
Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of 13
Education for grants, contracts, and administrative expenses 14
of the Elementary and Secondary School Em ergency Relief Fund 15
per the Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. 16
Section 45. The amount of $ 4,701,700, or so much of that 17
amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal 18
Department of Education Fund to the Illinois Stat e Board of 19
Education for grants, contracts, and administrative expenses 20
of the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund per the 21
Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. 22
Section 50. The amount of $ 524,556,000, or so much of that 23 SB2475 -15- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal 1
Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of 2
Education for grants, contracts, and administrative expenses 3
of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund 4
per the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental 5
Appropriations Act, 2021. 6
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Section 55. The amount of $ 29,788,500, or so much of that 8
amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal 9
Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of 10
Education for grants, contracts, and administrative expenses 11
of the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund per the 12
Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations 13
Act, 2021. 14
Section 60. The amount of $ 47,829,500, or so much of that 15
amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal 16
Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of 17
Education for grants, contracts, and administrative expenses 18
of the Emergency Assistance to Non -Public Schools per the 19
Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations 20
Act, 2021. 21
Section 65. The amount of $ 3,518,513,100, or so much of 22
that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE 23 SB2475 -16- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
Federal Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State 1
Board of Education for grant s, contracts, and administrative 2
expenses of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency 3
Relief Fund per the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, at the 4
approximate costs below: 5
For Elementary & Secondary School Emergency Relief 6
Fund, ARP ESSER ............................. 3,512,513,100 7
For the Social-Emotional Learning and Trauma Response Program 8
for a grant to the following named entities, at the 9
approximate costs below: 10
For Regional Office of Education #1 ..............857,143 11
For Regional Office of Education #4 ..............857,143 12
For Regional Office of Education #19 .............857,143 13
For Regional Office of Education #21 .............857,143 14
For Regional Office of Education #39 .............857,143 15
For Regional Office of Education #40 .............857,143 16
For City of Chicago School District 299 ..........857,142 17
Section 70. The amount of $80,186,400, or so much of that 18
amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal 19
Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of 20
Education for grants, contracts, and administrative expenses 21
of the Emergency Assistan ce to Non-Public Schools per the 22
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. 23
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Section 75. The amount of $ 26,029,700, or so much of that 1
amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the SBE Federal 2
Department of Education Fund to the Illinois State Board of 3
Education for grants, contracts, and administrative expenses 4
for Homeless Children and Youth per the American Rescue Plan 5
Act of 2021. 6
Section 80. The amount of $ 9,119,300, or so much of that 7
amount as may be necessary and remains unexpended at the clos e 8
of business on June 30, 2023, from a reappropriation heretofore 9
made for such purpose in Article 138, Section 370 of Public Act 10
102-0698, as amended, is reappropriated from the State 11
Coronavirus Urgent Remediation Emergency Fund to the Illinois 12
State Board of Education for costs associated with implementing 13
after school programs for purposes permitted by Section 9901 14
of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and related federal 15
guidance. 16
Section 85. The amount of $ 9,877,300, or so much of that 17
amount as may be necessary and remains unexpended at the close 18
of business on June 30, 2023, from a reappropriation heretofore 19
made for such purpose in Article 138, Section 360 of Public Act 20
102-0698,as amended, is reappropriated from the State 21
Coronavirus Urgent R emediation Emergency Fund to the Illinois 22
State Board of Education for costs associated with implementing 23 SB2475 -18- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
parent mentoring programs for purposes permitted by Section 1
9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and related federal 2
guidance. 3
Section 90. The amount of $ 66,100, or so much of that 4
amount as may be necessary and remains unexpended at the close 5
of business on June 30, 2023, from a reappropriation heretofore 6
made for such purpose in Article 138, Section 365 of Public Act 7
102-0698, as amended, is reappropriated from the State 8
Coronavirus Urgent Remediation Emergency Fund to the Illinois 9
State Board of Education for a grant to the Black and Gold 10
Initiative for mentoring, educational programming, and violence 11
prevention for high school students, f or purposes permitted by 12
Section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and related 13
federal guidance. 14
Section 95. The amount of $ 1,500,000, or so much thereof 15
as may be necessary and remains unexpended at the close of 16
business on June 30, 2023, from a reappropriation heretofore 17
made for such purpose in Article 138, Section 1210 of Public 18
Act 102-0698, as amended, is reappropriated from the S tate 19
Coronavirus Urgent Remediation Emergency Fund to the Illinois 20
State Board of Education for a grant to Virtual Learning Systems 21
for costs associated with expenses to provide social studies 22
curriculum to include African American history chapters to all 23 SB2475 -19- OMB103 00110 KTF 45110 b
schools statewide, for purposes permitted by Section 9901 of 1
the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and related federal 2
guidance. 3
ARTICLE 4 4
Section 1. The sum of $ 6,043,154,650, or so much thereof 5
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the Common School 6
Fund to the Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois 7
for the State’s contribution, as provided by law. 8
Section 5. The sum of $300,000, or so much thereof as may 9
be necessary, is appropriated from the Education Assistance 10
Fund to the Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois 11
for additional costs due to the establishment of minimum 12
retirement allowances pursuant to Sections 16 -136.2 and 16-13
136.3 of the Illinois Pension Code. 14
Section 10. The sum of $400,000, or so m uch thereof as may 15
be necessary, is appropriated from the Common School Fund to 16
the Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois for 17
the employer contributions required by the State as an employer 18
of teachers described under subsection (e) or subse ction (f) 19
of Section 16-158 of the Illinois Pension Code. 20
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Section 15. The amount of $ 65,393,587, or so much thereof 1
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue 2
Fund to the Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois 3
for deposit into the Teacher Health Insurance Security Fund as 4
the State’s contribution for teachers’ health insurance. 5
Section 20. The amount of $ 14,564,000, or so much thereof 6
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the Common School 7
Fund to the Public School Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund 8
of Chicago for the State’s contribution pursuant to subsection 9
(c) of Section 17-127 of the Illinois Pension Code. 10
Section 25. The amount of $ 308,147,000, or so much thereof 11
as may be necessary, is appropriated from the Common School 12
Fund to the Public School Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund 13
of Chicago for the State’s contribution pursuant to paragraph 14
(2) of subsection (d) of Section 17 -127 of the Illinois Pension 15
Code. 16
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 17
2023. 18