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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 adding Section
5 2-3.2a and by changing Sections 2-3.116 and 3-9 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/2-3.2a new)
7 Sec. 2-3.2a. Electronic transmission and collection of
8 data and funds. The State Board of Education may require
9 that the transmission or collection of any document, record,
10 form, claim, proposal, other data, or funds, between the
11 State Board of Education and any entity doing business with
12 the State Board of Education, be handled by electronic
13 transmission or collection. The State Board shall establish
14 standards for the electronic transmission and collection of
15 data and funds, including data encryption standards, that
16 must be used by all entities doing business with the State
17 Board. These standards must comply with the Electronic
18 Commerce Security Act.
19 (105 ILCS 5/2-3.116)
20 Sec. 2-3.116. Electronic transfer of funds to school
21 districts, regional offices of education, and other
22 providers. The State Board of Education shall, in
23 consultation with the regional superintendents of schools and
24 with the advice and approval of the Comptroller, adopt and
25 implement rules establishing a system for the electronic
26 transfer of funds to school districts, regional offices of
27 education, and other providers entitled to payment under
28 programs administered by the State Board of Education.
29 Beginning July 1, 2002, all payments for school districts,
30 regional offices of education, and other providers entitled
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1 to payment under programs administered by the State Board of
2 Education must be disbursed by the Comptroller through
3 electronic funds transfer, except as the State Board of
4 Education otherwise directs. If a school district entitled
5 to payment wishes an electronic payment to be made to the
6 district's regional office of education on the district's
7 behalf, the school board, with the approval of the regional
8 office of education, must provide a resolution to the State
9 Board of Education directing that the electronic deposit be
10 made into the account of the regional office of education.
11 The procedures in effect on the effective date of this
12 amendatory Act of 1994 for payment by the State Board of
13 Education shall remain in effect until those rules take
14 effect.
15 (Source: P.A. 88-641, eff. 9-9-94.)
16 (105 ILCS 5/3-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-9)
17 Sec. 3-9. School funds; apportionment and payment.
18 Whenever the regional superintendent receives In every
19 instance possible, except by written agreement between local
20 school districts in an educational service region and a
21 regional superintendent directing that payments be made to
22 the regional superintendent by the State Comptroller, funds
23 due to local school districts shall be disbursed by the State
24 Comptroller through direct electronic transfer from the State
25 school fund as directed by the State Board of Education. In
26 the event a written agreement exists, upon receipt of amounts
27 due to local school districts from the State school funds,
28 the regional superintendent shall apportion and distribute
29 the moneys to the appropriate local school districts as
30 directed. No part of the State or other school funding fund,
31 however, shall be paid to any school treasurer or other
32 persons authorized to receive it unless such treasurer has
33 filed the required his bond, or if reelected, has renewed the
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1 his bond and filed it as required by law and unless the
2 publication of the annual fiscal statement required in
3 Section 10-17 has been made and properly certified.
4 (Source: P.A. 87-473; 88-89; 88-641, eff. 9-9-94.)
5 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
6 becoming law.
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