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|  |  | HB5611 Engrossed |  | LRB095 19777 NHT 46155 b |  | 
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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,
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| 3 |  | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 |  |     Section 5. The School Code is amended  by adding Section  | 
| 5 |  | 21-30 as follows:
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| 6 |  |     (105 ILCS 5/21-30  new) | 
| 7 |  |     Sec. 21-30. Stipend; hard-to-staff school. | 
| 8 |  |     (a) In this Section "hard-to-staff school" means an  | 
| 9 |  | elementary or secondary school that ranks in the top 5% of  | 
| 10 |  | schools in this State in the number of teachers who leave their  | 
| 11 |  | positions. The State Board of Education shall rank schools for  | 
| 12 |  | this purpose based on mobility and teacher attrition over a  | 
| 13 |  | 5-year average.
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| 14 |  |     (b) Subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education  | 
| 15 |  | shall establish and administer a program that provides stipends  | 
| 16 |  | to teachers who choose to teach at hard-to-staff public schools  | 
| 17 |  | in this State.  Under the program, if a teacher who has at least  | 
| 18 |  | 4 years of experience at a recognized school agrees to teach at  | 
| 19 |  | a hard-to-staff school for 5 years, the teacher is entitled to  | 
| 20 |  | a total $20,000 stipend over those 5 years.  The stipend may be  | 
| 21 |  | paid out each year that the teacher teaches at a hard-to-staff  | 
| 22 |  | school or may be paid as a lump sum after the teacher has  | 
| 23 |  | completed 5 years of teaching at a hard-to-staff school. | 
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|  |  | HB5611 Engrossed | - 2 - | LRB095 19777 NHT 46155 b |  | 
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| 1 |  |     (c)  Notwithstanding any other rulemaking authority that  | 
| 2 |  | may exist, neither the Governor nor any agency or agency head  | 
| 3 |  | under the jurisdiction of the Governor has any authority to  | 
| 4 |  | make or promulgate rules to implement or enforce the provisions  | 
| 5 |  | of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly.  If,  | 
| 6 |  | however, the Governor believes that rules are necessary to  | 
| 7 |  | implement or enforce the provisions of this amendatory Act of  | 
| 8 |  | the 95th General Assembly, the Governor may suggest rules to  | 
| 9 |  | the General Assembly by filing them with the Clerk of the House  | 
| 10 |  | and the Secretary of the Senate and by requesting that the  | 
| 11 |  | General Assembly authorize such rulemaking by law, enact those  | 
| 12 |  | suggested rules into law, or take any other appropriate action  | 
| 13 |  | in the General Assembly's discretion.   Nothing contained in this  | 
| 14 |  | amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall be  | 
| 15 |  | interpreted to grant rulemaking authority under any other  | 
| 16 |  | Illinois statute where such authority is not otherwise  | 
| 17 |  | explicitly given.  For the purposes of this amendatory Act of  | 
| 18 |  | the 95th General Assembly, "rules" is given the meaning  | 
| 19 |  | contained in Section 1-70 of the Illinois Administrative  | 
| 20 |  | Procedure Act, and "agency" and "agency head" are given the  | 
| 21 |  | meanings contained in Sections 1-20 and 1-25 of the Illinois  | 
| 22 |  | Administrative Procedure Act to the extent that such  | 
| 23 |  | definitions apply to agencies or agency heads under the  | 
| 24 |  | jurisdiction of the Governor. 
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