Illinois 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB2149 Engrossed / Bill

Filed 04/09/2025

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1  AN ACT concerning education.
2  Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3  represented in the General Assembly:
4  Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
5  18-3 as follows:
6  (105 ILCS 5/18-3)    (from Ch. 122, par. 18-3)
7  Sec. 18-3. Tuition of children from orphanages and
8  children's homes. When the children from any home for orphans,
9  dependent, abandoned or maladjusted children maintained by any
10  organization or association admitting to such home children
11  from the State in general or when children residing in a school
12  district wherein the State of Illinois maintains and operates
13  any welfare or penal institution on property owned by the
14  State of Illinois, which contains houses, housing units or
15  housing accommodations within a school district, attend grades
16  kindergarten through 12 of the public schools maintained by
17  that school district, the State Superintendent of Education
18  shall direct the State Comptroller to pay a specified amount
19  sufficient to pay the annual tuition cost of such children who
20  attended such public schools during the regular school year
21  ending on June 30. The Comptroller shall pay the amount after
22  receipt of a voucher submitted by the State Superintendent of
23  Education.

 

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1  The amount of the tuition for such children attending the
2  public schools of the district shall be determined by the
3  State Superintendent of Education by multiplying the number of
4  such children in average daily attendance in such schools by
5  1.2 times the total annual per capita cost of administering
6  the schools of the district. Such total annual per capita cost
7  shall be determined by totaling all expenses of the school
8  district in the educational, operations and maintenance, bond
9  and interest, transportation, Illinois municipal retirement,
10  and rent funds for the school year preceding the filing of such
11  tuition claims less expenditures not applicable to the regular
12  K-12 program, less offsetting revenues from State sources
13  except those from the common school fund, less offsetting
14  revenues from federal sources except those from federal
15  impaction aid, less student and community service revenues,
16  plus a depreciation allowance; and dividing such total by the
17  average daily attendance for the year. Notwithstanding
18  subsection (a), for any school district that (i) is designated
19  as a Tier 1 or Tier 2 school district under Section 18-8.15,
20  (ii) has at least one school that is located on federal
21  property, (iii) has an overall student population of no more
22  than 4,500 students and no less than 2,500 students, and (iv)
23  receives a federal Public Schools on Military Installations
24  grant until June 30, 2030, the depreciation allowance shall
25  exclude the following:
26  (1) Depreciation of the portion of a new school

 

 

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1  building that was constructed using federal or donated
2  funds from the school district's Capital Projects Fund.
3  (2) Depreciation of the portion of a new school
4  building that was constructed with private funds and
5  donated to the school district upon completion.
6  Annually on or before June 15 the superintendent of the
7  district shall certify to the State Superintendent of
8  Education the following:
9  1. The name of the home and of the organization or
10  association maintaining it; or the legal description of
11  the real estate upon which the house, housing units, or
12  housing accommodations are located and that no taxes or
13  service charges or other payments authorized by law to be
14  made in lieu of taxes were collected therefrom or on
15  account thereof during either of the calendar years
16  included in the school year for which claim is being made;
17  2. The number of children from the home or living in
18  such houses, housing units or housing accommodations and
19  attending the schools of the district;
20  3. The total number of children attending the schools
21  of the district;
22  4. The per capita tuition charge of the district; and
23  5. The computed amount of the tuition payment claimed
24  as due.
25  Whenever the persons in charge of such home for orphans,
26  dependent, abandoned or maladjusted children have received

 

 

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1  from the parent or guardian of any such child or by virtue of
2  an order of court a specific allowance for educating such
3  child, such persons shall pay to the school board in the
4  district where the child attends school such amount of the
5  allowance as is necessary to pay the tuition required by such
6  district for the education of the child. If the allowance is
7  insufficient to pay the tuition in full the State
8  Superintendent of Education shall direct the Comptroller to
9  pay to the district the difference between the total tuition
10  charged and the amount of the allowance.
11  Whenever the facilities of a school district in which such
12  house, housing units or housing accommodations are located,
13  are limited, pupils may be assigned by that district to the
14  schools of any adjacent district to the limit of the
15  facilities of the adjacent district to properly educate such
16  pupils as shall be determined by the school board of the
17  adjacent district, and the State Superintendent of Education
18  shall direct the Comptroller to pay a specified amount
19  sufficient to pay the annual tuition of the children so
20  assigned to and attending public schools in the adjacent
21  districts and the Comptroller shall draw his warrant upon the
22  State Treasurer for the payment of such amount for the benefit
23  of the adjacent school districts in the same manner as for
24  districts in which the houses, housing units or housing
25  accommodations are located.
26  Summer session costs shall be reimbursed based on the

 

 

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1  actual expenditures for providing these services. On or before
2  November 1 of each year, the superintendent of each eligible
3  school district shall certify to the State Superintendent of
4  Education the claim of the district for the summer session
5  following the regular school year just ended. The State
6  Superintendent of Education shall transmit to the Comptroller
7  no later than December 15th of each year vouchers for payment
8  of amounts due to school districts for summer session.
9  Claims for tuition for children from any home for orphans
10  or dependent, abandoned, or maladjusted children shall be paid
11  on a current year basis. On September 30, December 31, and
12  March 31, the State Board of Education shall voucher payments
13  for districts with those students based on an estimated cost
14  calculated from the prior year's claim. The school district
15  shall certify to the State Superintendent of Education the
16  report of claims due for such tuition payments on or before
17  June 15. Claims received by June 15 may be amended until August
18  1. The State Superintendent of Education shall direct the
19  State Comptroller to pay to the district, on or before August
20  31, the amount due for the district for the school year in
21  accordance with the calculation of the claim as set forth in
22  this Section. However, notwithstanding any other provisions of
23  this Section or the School Code, beginning with fiscal year
24  1994 and each fiscal year thereafter, if the amount
25  appropriated for any fiscal year is less than the amount
26  required for purposes of this Section, the amount required to

 

 

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1  eliminate any insufficient reimbursement for each district
2  claim under this Section shall be reimbursed on August 31 of
3  the next fiscal year. Payments required to eliminate any
4  insufficiency for prior fiscal year claims shall be made
5  before any claims are paid for the current fiscal year.
6  If a school district makes a claim for reimbursement under
7  Section 14-7.03 it shall not include in any claim filed under
8  this Section children residing on the property of State
9  institutions included in its claim under Section 14-7.03.
10  Any child who is not a resident of Illinois who is placed
11  in a child welfare institution, private facility, State
12  operated program, orphanage or children's home shall have the
13  payment for his educational tuition and any related services
14  assured by the placing agent.
15  In order to provide services appropriate to allow a
16  student under the legal guardianship or custodianship of the
17  State to participate in local school district educational
18  programs, costs may be incurred in appropriate cases by the
19  district that are in excess of 1.2 times the district per
20  capita tuition charge allowed under the provisions of this
21  Section. In the event such excess costs are incurred, they
22  must be documented in accordance with cost rules established
23  under the authority of this Section and may then be claimed for
24  reimbursement under this Section.
25  Planned services for students eligible for this funding
26  must be a collaborative effort between the appropriate State

 

 

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1  agency or the student's group home or institution and the
2  local school district.
3  (Source: P.A. 101-17, eff. 6-14-19.)

 

 

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