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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB5902
Introduced 2/10/2010, by Rep. Patricia R. Bellock - Sandra M. Pihos SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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105 ILCS 5/3-14.21 |
from Ch. 122, par. 3-14.21 |
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Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning the inspection of schools, provides that the regional superintendent shall utilize a local building inspector to verify that a school complies with the Health/Life Safety Code for Public Schools. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
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| 3-14.21 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/3-14.21) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-14.21)
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| Sec. 3-14.21. Inspection of schools.
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| (a) The regional superintendent shall inspect and survey |
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| all
public
schools under his or her supervision and notify the |
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| board of education, or the
trustees of schools in a district |
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| with trustees, in writing before July 30,
whether or not the |
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| several schools in their district have been kept as required
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| law, using forms provided by the State Board of Education which |
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| are based on
the Health/Life Safety Code for Public Schools |
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| adopted under Section 2-3.12. The regional
superintendent |
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| shall report his or her findings to the State Board of
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| Education on
forms provided by the State Board of Education. |
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| The regional superintendent shall utilize a local building |
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| inspector to verify that a school complies with the Health/Life |
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| Safety Code for Public Schools adopted under Section 2-3.12 of |
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| this Code.
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| (b) If the regional superintendent determines that a school |
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| board has
failed in a timely manner to correct urgent items |
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| identified in a previous
life-safety report completed under |
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| Section 2-3.12 or as otherwise previously
ordered by the |
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| regional superintendent, the regional superintendent shall |
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| order
the school board to adopt and submit to the regional |
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| superintendent a plan for
the immediate correction of the |
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| building violations. This plan shall be
adopted following a |
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| public hearing that is conducted by the school board on the
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| violations and the plan and that is preceded by at least 7 |
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| days' prior notice
of the hearing published in
a newspaper of |
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| general circulation within the school district. If the regional
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| superintendent determines in the next annual inspection that |
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| the plan has not
been completed and that the violations have |
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| not been corrected, the regional
superintendent shall submit a |
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| report to the State Board of Education with a
recommendation |
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| that the State Board withhold from payments of general State |
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| aid
due to the district an amount necessary to correct the |
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| outstanding violations.
The State Board, upon notice to the |
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| school board
and to the regional superintendent, shall consider |
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| the report at a meeting of
the State Board, and may order that |
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| a sufficient amount of general State aid be
withheld from |
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| payments due to the district to correct the violations. This
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| amount shall be paid to the regional superintendent who shall |
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| contract on
behalf of the school board for the correction of |
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| the outstanding violations.
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| (c) The Office of the State Fire Marshal or a qualified |
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| fire official, as defined in Section 2-3.12 of this Code, to |
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| whom the State Fire Marshal has delegated his or her authority |
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| shall conduct an annual fire safety inspection of each school |
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| building in this State. The State Fire Marshal or the fire |
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| official shall coordinate its inspections with the regional |
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| superintendent. The inspection shall be based on the fire |
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| safety code authorized in Section 2-3.12 of this Code. Any |
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| violations shall be reported in writing to the regional |
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| superintendent and shall reference the specific code sections |
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| where a discrepancy has been identified within 15 days after |
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| the inspection has been conducted. The regional superintendent |
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| shall address those violations that are not corrected in a |
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| timely manner pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section. The |
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| inspection must be at no cost to the school district.
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| (d) If a municipality or, in the case of an unincorporated |
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| area, a county or, if applicable, a fire protection district |
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| wishes to perform new construction inspections under the |
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| jurisdiction of a regional superintendent, then the entity must |
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| register this wish with the regional superintendent. These |
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| inspections must be based on the building code authorized in |
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| Section 2-3.12 of this Code. The inspections must be at no cost |
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| to the school district.
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| (Source: P.A. 96-734, eff. 8-25-09.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.
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