99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB0669

Introduced 2/3/2015, by Sen. Thomas Cullerton

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/2A-1.2 from Ch. 46, par. 2A-1.2
10 ILCS 5/2A-48 from Ch. 46, par. 2A-48
10 ILCS 5/2A-49 from Ch. 46, par. 2A-49
10 ILCS 5/2A-54 from Ch. 46, par. 2A-54
105 ILCS 5/9-5 from Ch. 122, par. 9-5
105 ILCS 5/10-4 from Ch. 122, par. 10-4
105 ILCS 5/10-10 from Ch. 122, par. 10-10
105 ILCS 5/10-16 from Ch. 122, par. 10-16
105 ILCS 5/11E-55
105 ILCS 5/32-1.1 from Ch. 122, par. 32-1.1
105 ILCS 5/32-2.12 from Ch. 122, par. 32-2.12

Amends the Election Code and the School Code. Changes the election of members of a board of school directors, board of education, or board of school inspectors from the consolidated election to the general election. Makes related changes.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning education.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
5Sections 2A-1.2, 2A-48, 2A-49, and 2A-54 as follows:
6 (10 ILCS 5/2A-1.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-1.2)
7 Sec. 2A-1.2. Consolidated Schedule of Elections - Offices
8Designated.
9 (a) At the general election in the appropriate
10even-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled or
11shall be on the ballot as otherwise required by this Code:
12 (1) Elector of President and Vice President of the
13 United States;
14 (2) United States Senator and United States
15 Representative;
16 (3) State Executive Branch elected officers;
17 (4) State Senator and State Representative;
18 (5) County elected officers, including State's
19 Attorney, County Board member, County Commissioners, and
20 elected President of the County Board or County Chief
21 Executive;
22 (6) Circuit Court Clerk;
23 (7) Regional Superintendent of Schools, except in

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1 counties or educational service regions in which that
2 office has been abolished;
3 (7.5) Elected members of school boards, directors of
4 boards of school directors, and members of boards of school
5 inspectors, except school boards in school districts that
6 adopt Article 33 of the School Code;
7 (8) Judges of the Supreme, Appellate and Circuit
8 Courts, on the question of retention, to fill vacancies and
9 newly created judicial offices;
10 (9) (Blank);
11 (10) Trustee of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of
12 Chicago, and elected Trustee of other Sanitary Districts;
13 (11) Special District elected officers, not otherwise
14 designated in this Section, where the statute creating or
15 authorizing the creation of the district requires an annual
16 election and permits or requires election of candidates of
17 political parties.
18 (b) At the general primary election:
19 (1) in each even-numbered year candidates of political
20 parties shall be nominated for those offices to be filled
21 at the general election in that year, except where pursuant
22 to law nomination of candidates of political parties is
23 made by caucus and except for those offices listed in
24 paragraph (7.5) of subsection (a) of this Section.
25 (2) in the appropriate even-numbered years the
26 political party offices of State central committeeman,

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1 township committeeman, ward committeeman, and precinct
2 committeeman shall be filled and delegates and alternate
3 delegates to the National nominating conventions shall be
4 elected as may be required pursuant to this Code. In the
5 even-numbered years in which a Presidential election is to
6 be held, candidates in the Presidential preference primary
7 shall also be on the ballot.
8 (3) in each even-numbered year, where the municipality
9 has provided for annual elections to elect municipal
10 officers pursuant to Section 6(f) or Section 7 of Article
11 VII of the Constitution, pursuant to the Illinois Municipal
12 Code or pursuant to the municipal charter, the offices of
13 such municipal officers shall be filled at an election held
14 on the date of the general primary election, provided that
15 the municipal election shall be a nonpartisan election
16 where required by the Illinois Municipal Code. For partisan
17 municipal elections in even-numbered years, a primary to
18 nominate candidates for municipal office to be elected at
19 the general primary election shall be held on the Tuesday 6
20 weeks preceding that election.
21 (4) in each school district which has adopted the
22 provisions of Article 33 of the School Code, successors to
23 the members of the board of education whose terms expire in
24 the year in which the general primary is held shall be
25 elected.
26 (c) At the consolidated election in the appropriate

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1odd-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled:
2 (1) Municipal officers, provided that in
3 municipalities in which candidates for alderman or other
4 municipal office are not permitted by law to be candidates
5 of political parties, the runoff election where required by
6 law, or the nonpartisan election where required by law,
7 shall be held on the date of the consolidated election; and
8 provided further, in the case of municipal officers
9 provided for by an ordinance providing the form of
10 government of the municipality pursuant to Section 7 of
11 Article VII of the Constitution, such offices shall be
12 filled by election or by runoff election as may be provided
13 by such ordinance;
14 (2) Village and incorporated town library directors;
15 (3) City boards of stadium commissioners;
16 (4) Commissioners of park districts;
17 (5) Trustees of public library districts;
18 (6) Special District elected officers, not otherwise
19 designated in this section, where the statute creating or
20 authorizing the creation of the district permits or
21 requires election of candidates of political parties;
22 (7) Township officers, including township park
23 commissioners, township library directors, and boards of
24 managers of community buildings, and Multi-Township
25 Assessors;
26 (8) Highway commissioners and road district clerks;

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1 (9) Members of school boards in school districts which
2 adopt Article 33 of the School Code;
3 (10) The directors and chairman of the Chain O Lakes -
4 Fox River Waterway Management Agency;
5 (11) Forest preserve district commissioners elected
6 under Section 3.5 of the Downstate Forest Preserve District
7 Act;
8 (12) School Elected members of school boards, school
9 trustees and , directors of boards of school directors,
10 trustees of county boards of school trustees (except in
11 counties or educational service regions having a
12 population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants) and members of
13 boards of school inspectors, except school boards in school
14 districts that adopt Article 33 of the School Code;
15 (13) Members of Community College district boards;
16 (14) Trustees of Fire Protection Districts;
17 (15) Commissioners of the Springfield Metropolitan
18 Exposition and Auditorium Authority;
19 (16) Elected Trustees of Tuberculosis Sanitarium
20 Districts;
21 (17) Elected Officers of special districts not
22 otherwise designated in this Section for which the law
23 governing those districts does not permit candidates of
24 political parties.
25 (d) At the consolidated primary election in each
26odd-numbered year, candidates of political parties shall be

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1nominated for those offices to be filled at the consolidated
2election in that year, except where pursuant to law nomination
3of candidates of political parties is made by caucus, and
4except those offices listed in paragraphs (12) through (17) of
5subsection (c).
6 At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate
7odd-numbered years, the mayor, clerk, treasurer, and aldermen
8shall be elected in municipalities in which candidates for
9mayor, clerk, treasurer, or alderman are not permitted by law
10to be candidates of political parties, subject to runoff
11elections to be held at the consolidated election as may be
12required by law, and municipal officers shall be nominated in a
13nonpartisan election in municipalities in which pursuant to law
14candidates for such office are not permitted to be candidates
15of political parties.
16 At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate
17odd-numbered years, municipal officers shall be nominated or
18elected, or elected subject to a runoff, as may be provided by
19an ordinance providing a form of government of the municipality
20pursuant to Section 7 of Article VII of the Constitution.
21 (e) (Blank).
22 (f) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, public
23questions may be submitted to voters pursuant to this Code and
24any special election otherwise required or authorized by law or
25by court order may be conducted pursuant to this Code.
26 Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of officers

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1established in this Article, whenever a referendum is held for
2the establishment of a political subdivision whose officers are
3to be elected, the initial officers shall be elected at the
4election at which such referendum is held if otherwise so
5provided by law. In such cases, the election of the initial
6officers shall be subject to the referendum.
7 Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of
8officials established in this Article, any community college
9district which becomes effective by operation of law pursuant
10to Section 6-6.1 of the Public Community College Act, as now or
11hereafter amended, shall elect the initial district board
12members at the next regularly scheduled election following the
13effective date of the new district.
14 (g) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, if in
15any precinct there are no offices or public questions required
16to be on the ballot under this Code then no election shall be
17held in the precinct on that date.
18 (h) There may be conducted a referendum in accordance with
19the provisions of Division 6-4 of the Counties Code.
20(Source: P.A. 89-5, eff. 1-1-96; 89-95, eff. 1-1-96; 89-626,
21eff. 8-9-96; 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)
22 (10 ILCS 5/2A-48) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-48)
23 Sec. 2A-48. Board of School Directors - Member - Time of
24Election. A member of a Board of School Directors or a member
25of an elected Board of Education, as the case may be, shall be

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1elected at each general consolidated election to succeed each
2incumbent member whose term ends before the following general
3consolidated election.
4(Source: P.A. 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)
5 (10 ILCS 5/2A-49) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-49)
6 Sec. 2A-49. Board of School Inspectors - Member - Time of
7Election. A member of a Board of School Inspectors shall be
8elected at the general consolidated election which immediately
9precedes the expiration of the term of any incumbent school
10inspector, to succeed each incumbent school inspector whose
11term ends before the following general consolidated election.
12(Source: P.A. 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)
13 (10 ILCS 5/2A-54) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-54)
14 Sec. 2A-54. (a) In those cases in which the election to an
15office is changed by the consolidation of elections to an
16earlier or later month in the same year or to a different year,
17the term of any incumbent serving on December 1, 1980 is
18extended to the first Monday in the first month following the
19election of his successor and until the successor has
20qualified, and the term of the successor in office shall
21commence on that first Monday.
22 The term of office of a person elected at a nonpartisan
23election whose term begins before the effective date of this
24amendatory Act of 1997 shall expire on the date that his or her

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1term would have expired had this amendatory Act of 1997 not
2been enacted. The term of office of a person elected at a
3consolidated election held on or after the effective date of
4this amendatory Act of 1997 to succeed to a term of office of a
5person elected at a nonpartisan election shall begin upon the
6termination of the predecessor's term of office. The term of
7office of a person elected to succeed to a term of office of a
8person elected at a nonpartisan election shall end after the
9next consolidated election at which a successor is elected and
10at the regularly scheduled time for the ending of terms of
11office as provided in the Act or Acts creating or governing
12that unit of local government or school district.
13 However, this general provision for the transition of terms
14of office in relation to the adoption of a uniform schedule of
15elections shall be subject to the specific provisions for the
16transition of terms of office in the several Acts creating or
17governing the creation of various units of local government and
18school districts, as amended.
19 (b) With respect to the election of members of a board of
20school directors, board of education, or board of school
21inspectors being changed from the consolidated election to the
22general election under this amendatory Act of the 99th General
23Assembly, the term of any incumbent serving on January 1, 2016
24is extended until his or her successor is elected and has
25qualified.
26(Source: P.A. 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)

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1 Section 10. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
29-5, 10-4, 10-10, 10-16, 11E-55, 32-1.1, and 32-2.12 as
3follows:
4 (105 ILCS 5/9-5) (from Ch. 122, par. 9-5)
5 Sec. 9-5. Election dates and terms of offices.
6 (a) The dates upon which school officer elections shall be
7held are as established in the general election law. Members of
8boards of education shall unless otherwise provided serve terms
9of 4 years.
10 (b) If, at a regularly scheduled election, a proposition is
11submitted to the voters of a district, as provided by a
12resolution of the board, on the question of whether board
13members should serve for 6 year terms and the proposition
14receives the affirmative vote of those voting thereon, members
15of the board of education shall thereafter serve for terms of 6
16years.
17 (c) The term of any incumbent serving on a school board on
18January 1, 2016 is extended until his or her successor is
19elected and has qualified as provided under subsection (b) of
20Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
21(Source: P.A. 82-1014.)
22 (105 ILCS 5/10-4) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-4)
23 Sec. 10-4. Election of directors.

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1 (a) In all districts, directors shall be elected in each
2even-numbered odd-numbered year, each for a term of 4 years.
3 (b) In consolidated districts where 5 directors are elected
4in 1981 pursuant to the extension of terms provided by law for
5transition to the consolidated election schedule under the
6general election law, those directors elected shall, by lot,
7determine 2 of their number to serve 2 years and 3 to serve 4
8years; their successors shall serve for a 4 year term.
9 (c) If a proposition to increase the membership of a school
10district's board of school directors to 7 directors and to
11elect a new 7-member board of school directors to replace the
12district's existing board of 3 school directors is approved by
13the electors of the district at a regular scheduled election as
14provided in subsection (b) of Section 10-1, 7 members shall be
15elected at the next regular school election, in the manner
16provided by Article 9, to serve as the board of school
17directors of that district. The terms of office of the 3
18members of the board of school directors serving at the time of
19the election of the initial 7-member board of school directors
20shall expire when the 7 newly elected members of the initial
217-member board of school directors assume office and are
22organized as provided in Section 10-5. At their organizational
23meeting, the initial members of the 7-member board of school
24directors shall by lot determine 4 of their number to serve 4
25year terms and 3 of their number to serve 2 year terms. Their
26successors shall serve for a 4 year term.

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1 (d) In all other districts, one school director shall be
2elected in each district every other even-numbered
3odd-numbered year, and 2 two school directors shall be elected
4in the intervening even-numbered odd-numbered years.
5 (e) When a vacancy occurs in the membership of any board of
6school directors the remaining members shall, within 30 days,
7fill the vacancy by appointment until the next regular school
8election, or, upon their failure so to do, the regional
9superintendent shall make such appointment within the next 30
10days to fill the vacancy as herein provided. Upon the regional
11superintendent's failure to fill the vacancy, the vacancy shall
12be filled at the next regularly scheduled election.
13(Source: P.A. 90-757, eff. 8-14-98.)
14 (105 ILCS 5/10-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-10)
15 Sec. 10-10. Board of education; term; vacancy. All school
16districts having a population of not fewer than 1,000 and not
17more than 500,000 inhabitants, as ascertained by any special or
18general census, and not governed by special Acts, shall be
19governed by a board of education consisting of 7 members,
20serving without compensation except as herein provided. Each
21member shall be elected for a term of 4 years for the initial
22members of the board of education of a combined school district
23to which that subsection applies. If 5 members are elected in
241983 pursuant to the extension of terms provided by law for
25transition to the consolidated election schedule under the

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1general election law, 2 of those members shall be elected to
2serve terms of 2 years and 3 shall be elected to serve terms of
34 years; their successors shall serve for a 4 year term. When
4the voters of a district have voted to elect members of the
5board of education for 6 year terms, as provided in Section
69-5, the terms of office of members of the board of education
7of that district expire when their successors assume office but
8not later than 7 days after such election. If at the regular
9school election held in the first even-numbered odd-numbered
10year after the determination to elect members for 6 year terms
112 members are elected, they shall serve for a 6 year term; and
12of the members elected at the next regular school election 3
13shall serve for a term of 6 years and 2 shall serve a term of 2
14years. Thereafter members elected in such districts shall be
15elected to a 6 year term. If at the regular school election
16held in the first even-numbered odd-numbered year after the
17determination to elect members for 6 year terms 3 members are
18elected, they shall serve for a 6 year term; and of the members
19elected at the next regular school election 2 shall serve for a
20term of 2 years and 2 shall serve for a term of 6 years.
21Thereafter members elected in such districts shall be elected
22to a 6 year term. If at the regular school election held in the
23first even-numbered odd-numbered year after the determination
24to elect members for 6 year terms 4 members are elected, 3
25shall serve for a term of 6 years and one shall serve for a term
26of 2 years; and of the members elected at the next regular

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1school election 2 shall serve for terms of 6 years and 2 shall
2serve for terms of 2 years. Thereafter members elected in such
3districts shall be elected to a 6 year term. If at the regular
4school election held in the first even-numbered odd-numbered
5year after the determination to elect members for a 6 year term
65 members are elected, 3 shall serve for a term of 6 years and 2
7shall serve for a term of 2 years; and of the members elected
8at the next regular school election 2 shall serve for terms of
96 years and 2 shall serve for terms of 2 years. Thereafter
10members elected in such districts shall be elected to a 6 year
11term. An election for board members shall not be held in school
12districts which by consolidation, annexation or otherwise
13shall cease to exist as a school district within 6 months after
14the election date, and the term of all board members which
15would otherwise terminate shall be continued until such
16district shall cease to exist. Each member, on the date of his
17or her election, shall be a citizen of the United States of the
18age of 18 years or over, shall be a resident of the State and
19the territory of the district for at least one year immediately
20preceding his or her election, shall be a registered voter as
21provided in the general election law, shall not be a school
22trustee, and shall not be a child sex offender as defined in
23Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012. When the board of
24education is the successor of the school directors, all rights
25of property, and all rights regarding causes of action existing
26or vested in such directors, shall vest in it as fully as they

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1were vested in the school directors. Terms of members are
2subject to Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
3 Nomination papers filed under this Section are not valid
4unless the candidate named therein files with the county clerk
5or the county board of election commissioners, as the case may
6be, of the county in which the principal office of the school
7district is located a receipt from the county clerk showing
8that the candidate has filed a statement of economic interests
9as required by the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Such
10receipt shall be so filed either previously during the calendar
11year in which his nomination papers were filed or within the
12period for the filing of nomination papers in accordance with
13the general election law.
14 Whenever a vacancy occurs, the remaining members shall
15notify the regional superintendent of that vacancy within 5
16days after its occurrence and shall proceed to fill the vacancy
17until the next regular school election, at which election a
18successor shall be elected to serve the remainder of the
19unexpired term. However, if the vacancy occurs with less than
20868 days remaining in the term, or if the vacancy occurs less
21than 88 days before the next regularly scheduled election for
22this office then the person so appointed shall serve the
23remainder of the unexpired term, and no election to fill the
24vacancy shall be held. Should they fail so to act, within 45
25days after the vacancy occurs, the regional superintendent of
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1operating, as defined in Section 3-14.2 of this Act, shall
2within 30 days after the remaining members have failed to fill
3the vacancy, fill the vacancy as provided for herein. Upon the
4regional superintendent's failure to fill the vacancy, the
5vacancy shall be filled at the next regularly scheduled
6election. Whether elected or appointed by the remaining members
7or regional superintendent, the successor shall be an
8inhabitant of the particular area from which his or her
9predecessor was elected if the residential requirements
10contained in Section 10-10.5 or 12-2 of this Code apply.
11 A board of education may appoint a student to the board to
12serve in an advisory capacity. The student member shall serve
13for a term as determined by the board. The board may not grant
14the student member any voting privileges, but shall consider
15the student member as an advisor. The student member may not
16participate in or attend any executive session of the board.
17(Source: P.A. 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13; 98-115, eff. 7-29-13.)
18 (105 ILCS 5/10-16) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-16)
19 Sec. 10-16. Organization of Board. Within 28 days after the
20general consolidated election, other than the consolidated
21elections in 1999 and 2001, the board shall organize by
22electing its officers and fixing a time and place for the
23regular meetings. However, when school board members are
24elected at the consolidated elections held in April of 1999 and
25April of 2001, the board shall organize within 7 days after the

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1first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in each such
2year by electing officers and setting the time and place of the
3regular meetings. Upon organizing itself as provided in this
4paragraph, the board shall enter upon the discharge of its
5duties.
6 The regional superintendent of schools having supervision
7and control, as provided in Section 3-14.2, of a new school
8district that is governed by this the School Code and formed on
9or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1998
10shall convene the newly elected board within 7 days after the
11election of the board of education of that district, whereupon
12the board shall proceed to organize by electing one of their
13number as president and electing a secretary, who may or may
14not be a member. At such meeting the length of term of each of
15the members shall be determined by lot so that 4 shall serve
16for 4 years, and 3 for 2 years from the commencement of their
17terms; provided, however, if such members were not elected at
18the general consolidated election in an odd-numbered year, such
19initial terms shall be extended to the general consolidated
20election for school board members immediately following the
21expiration of the initial 4 or 2 year terms. The provisions of
22this paragraph that relate to the determination of terms by lot
23shall not apply to the initial members of the board of
24education of a combined school district who are to be elected
25to unstaggered terms.
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1for 2 years, except that the terms of the officers elected at
2the organization meeting in November, 2001 shall expire at the
3organization meeting in April, 2003; provided that the board by
4resolution may establish a policy for the terms of office to be
5one year, and provide for the election of officers.
6 Special meetings of the board of education may be called by
7the president or by any 3 members of the board by giving notice
8thereof in writing, stating the time, place and purpose of the
9meeting. Such notice may be served by mail 48 hours before such
10meeting or by personal service 24 hours before such meeting.
11Public notice of meetings must also be given as prescribed in
12Sections 2.02 and 2.03 of the Open Meetings Act, as now or
13hereafter amended.
14 At each regular and special meeting which is open to the
15public, members of the public and employees of the district
16shall be afforded time, subject to reasonable constraints, to
17comment to or ask questions of the board.
18 The president or district superintendent shall, at each
19regular board meeting, report any requests made of the district
20under provisions of the The Freedom of Information Act and
21shall report the status of the district's response.
22(Source: P.A. 93-847, eff. 7-30-04; 94-1019, eff. 7-10-06.)
23 (105 ILCS 5/11E-55)
24 Sec. 11E-55. Holding of elections.
25 (a) Elections provided by this Article shall be conducted

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1in accordance with the general election law. The regional
2superintendent of schools shall perform the election duties
3assigned by law to the secretary of a school board for the
4election and shall certify the officers and candidates
5therefore pursuant to the general election law.
6 (b) Nomination papers filed under this Article are not
7valid unless the candidate named therein files with the
8regional superintendent of schools a receipt from the county
9clerk showing that the candidate has filed a statement of
10economic interests as required by the Illinois Governmental
11Ethics Act. This receipt shall be so filed either previously
12during the calendar year in which his or her nomination papers
13were filed or within the period for the filing of nomination
14papers in accordance with the general election law.
15 (c)(1) If the petition requests the election of school
16board members of the school district proposed to be created at
17the same election at which the proposition to establish that
18district is to be submitted to voters or if the regional
19superintendent of schools finds it to be in the best interest
20of the districts involved to elect school board members of the
21school district proposed to be created at the same a
22consolidated election or general primary election, then that
23fact shall be included in the notice of referendum.
24 (2) If the members of the school board of the school
25district proposed to be created are not to be elected at the
26same election at which the proposition to establish that

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1district is to be submitted to the voters, then the regional
2superintendent of schools shall order an election to be held on
3the next regularly scheduled election date for the purpose of
4electing a school board for that district.
5 (3) In either event, the school board elected for a new
6school district or districts created under this Article shall
7consist of 7 members who shall have the terms and the powers
8and duties of school boards as provided by statute.
9 (d) All notices regarding propositions for reorganization
10or creation of new school districts under this Article shall be
11given in accordance with the general election law in
12substantially the following form:
13 (1) Notice in high school - unit conversion or unit to
14 dual conversion:
15
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM TO DISSOLVE
16
CERTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND
17
ESTABLISH CERTAIN NEW SCHOOL DISTRICTS
18 NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
19 referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county
20 (counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the
21 proposition to dissolve (here identify the school
22 districts to be dissolved by name and number) and to
23 establish new school districts for the following described
24 territory: A new (here specify elementary, high school, or

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1 unit) district shall be formed from (here describe the
2 territory, which, for territory currently included in an
3 entire school district, may be a general reference to all
4 of the territory included within that particular school
5 district). (Here repeat the territory information for each
6 new school district.)
7 The election is called and will be held pursuant to an
8 order of the Regional Superintendent dated on (insert
9 date), which order states that if a majority of the voters
10 in each of the affected districts voting on the proposition
11 at the referendum vote in favor thereof, the tax rates for
12 various purposes of the new districts shall be as follows:
13 For the new (here specify elementary, high school, or unit)
14 district formed from the territory of (here describe
15 territory, which, for territory currently included in an
16 entire school district, may be a general reference to all
17 of the territory included within that particular
18 district), the tax rates for various purposes shall be
19 (here specify the maximum tax rates for various purposes
20 the proposed school district is authorized to levy and, if
21 applicable, the specifications related to the Property Tax
22 Extension Limitation Law, in accordance with Section
23 11E-80 of this Code). (Here repeat the tax rate information
24 for each new school district.)
25 Dated (insert date).
26 Regional Superintendent of Schools ..................

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1 (2) Notice for combined school district formation:
2
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM
3
TO ESTABLISH COMBINED SCHOOL DISTRICT
4 NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
5 referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county
6 (counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the
7 proposition to establish a combined (here insert
8 elementary, high school, or unit) school district for the
9 following described territory: (here describe the
10 territory, which, for territory currently included in an
11 entire school district, may be a general reference to all
12 of the territory included within that particular school
13 district). The election is called and will be held pursuant
14 to an order of the Regional Superintendent dated on (insert
15 date), which order states that if a majority of the voters
16 in each of the affected school districts voting on the
17 proposition at the referendum vote in favor thereof, the
18 tax rates for various purposes of the proposed combined
19 school district shall be (here specify the maximum tax
20 rates for various purposes the proposed combined school
21 district is authorized to levy and, if applicable, the
22 specifications related to the Property Tax Extension
23 Limitation Law, in accordance with Section 11E-80 of this

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1 Code).
2 Dated (insert date).
3 Regional Superintendent of Schools ..................
4 (3) Notice for unit district formation (other than a
5 partial elementary unit district):
6
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM TO ESTABLISH
7
A COMMUNITY UNIT DISTRICT
8 NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
9 referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county
10 (counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the
11 proposition to establish a unit district for the following
12 described territory: (here describe the territory, which,
13 for territory currently included in an entire school
14 district, may be a general reference to all of the
15 territory included within that particular school
16 district). The election is called and will be held pursuant
17 to an order of the Regional Superintendent dated on (insert
18 date), which order states that if a majority of the voters
19 in each of the affected school districts voting on the
20 proposition at the referendum vote in favor thereof, the
21 tax rates for various purposes for the proposed unit
22 district shall be (here specify the maximum tax rates for
23 various purposes the proposed unit district shall be

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1 authorized to levy and, if applicable, the specifications
2 related to the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, in
3 accordance with Section 11E-80 of this Code).
4 Dated (insert date).
5 Regional Superintendent of Schools ..................
6 (4) Notice for combined high school - unit district
7 formation:
8
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM
9
TO ESTABLISH COMBINED HIGH SCHOOL - UNIT DISTRICT
10 NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
11 referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county
12 (counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the
13 proposition to establish a combined high school - unit
14 district for the following described territory: (here
15 describe the territory, which, for territory currently
16 included in an entire school district, may be a general
17 reference to all of the territory included within that
18 particular school district). The following described
19 territory shall be included in the combined high school -
20 unit district for high school purposes only: (here describe
21 the territory that will be included only for high school
22 purposes, which, for territory currently included in an
23 entire school district, may be a general reference to all

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1 of the territory included within that particular school
2 district). The election is called and will be held pursuant
3 to an order of the Regional Superintendent dated on (insert
4 date), which order states that if a majority of the voters
5 in each of the affected school districts voting on the
6 proposition at the referendum vote in favor thereof, the
7 tax rates for various purposes for the proposed combined
8 high school - unit district shall be (here specify the
9 maximum tax rates for various purposes the proposed
10 combined high school - unit district shall be authorized to
11 levy and, if applicable, the specifications related to the
12 Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, in accordance with
13 Sections 11E-80 and 11E-90 of this Code).
14 Dated (insert date).
15 Regional Superintendent of Schools ..................
16 (5) Notice for multi-unit conversion:
17
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM TO DISSOLVE CERTAIN
18
UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND ESTABLISH CERTAIN
19
NEW SCHOOL DISTRICTS
20 NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
21 referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county
22 (counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the
23 proposition to dissolve (here identify the districts to be

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1 dissolved by name and number) and to establish new school
2 districts for the following described territory: A new
3 (here specify elementary or combined high school - unit)
4 district shall be formed from (here describe the territory,
5 which, for territory currently included in an entire school
6 district, may be a general reference to all of the
7 territory included within that particular school
8 district). (Here repeat the territory information for each
9 new school district.) The following described territory
10 shall be included in the proposed combined high school -
11 unit district only for high school purposes: (here describe
12 the territory that will only be included for high school
13 purposes, which, for territory currently included in an
14 entire school district, may be a general reference to all
15 of the territory included within that particular school
16 district).
17 The election is called and will be held pursuant to an
18 order of the Regional Superintendent dated on (insert
19 date), which order states that if a majority of the voters
20 in each of the affected districts voting on the proposition
21 at the referendum vote in favor thereof, the tax rates for
22 various purposes of the new districts shall be as follows:
23 For the new elementary district formed from the territory
24 of (here identify the unit district by name and number) the
25 tax rates for various purposes shall be (here specify the
26 maximum tax rates for various purposes the proposed

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1 elementary district is authorized to levy and, if
2 applicable, the specifications related to the Property Tax
3 Extension Limitation Law, in accordance with Section
4 11E-80 of this Code). (Here repeat the tax rate and
5 Property Tax Extension Limitation Law information for each
6 new elementary district.) For the new combined high school -
7 unit district, the tax rates for various purposes shall
8 be (here specify the maximum tax rates for various purposes
9 the proposed combined high school - unit district shall be
10 authorized to levy and, if applicable, the specifications
11 related to the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, in
12 accordance with Sections 11E-80 and 11E-90 of this Code).
13 Dated (insert date).
14 Regional Superintendent of Schools ..................
15 (6) Notice for optional elementary unit district
16 formation:
17
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM TO ESTABLISH
18
AN OPTIONAL ELEMENTARY UNIT DISTRICT
19 NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
20 referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county
21 (counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the
22 proposition to establish an optional elementary unit
23 district for the following described territory: (here

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1 describe the elementary and high school district territory
2 by name and number). If a majority of the voters in one or
3 more of the affected elementary districts and in the
4 affected high school district voting on the proposition at
5 the referendum vote in favor thereof, all of the territory
6 included within the affected high school district shall be
7 included in the optional elementary unit district for high
8 school purposes. However, only the territory of elementary
9 districts in which a majority of the voters voting in the
10 proposition at the referendum vote in favor thereof shall
11 be included in the optional elementary unit district for
12 elementary purposes. The election is called and will be
13 held pursuant to an order of the Regional Superintendent
14 dated on (insert date), which order states that if a
15 majority of the voters in one or more of the affected
16 elementary districts and in the affected high school
17 district voting on the proposition at the referendum vote
18 in favor thereof, the tax rates for various purposes for
19 the proposed optional elementary unit district shall be
20 (here list the maximum tax rates for various purposes the
21 proposed optional elementary unit district is authorized
22 to levy and, if applicable, the specifications related to
23 the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, in accordance
24 with Sections 11E-80 and 11E-95 of this Code).
25 Dated (insert date).
26 Regional Superintendent of Schools ..................

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1 (7) Notice for an elementary district to opt into a
2 partial elementary unit district:
3
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM TO JOIN
4
AN OPTIONAL ELEMENTARY UNIT DISTRICT
5 NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
6 referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county
7 (counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the
8 proposition to dissolve an elementary district and join an
9 optional elementary unit district for kindergarten through
10 12 grade-level purposes for all of the territory included
11 within (here identify the elementary district by name and
12 number). The election is called and will be held pursuant
13 to an order of the Regional Superintendent dated on (insert
14 date), which order states that if a majority of the voters
15 in the elementary school district voting on the proposition
16 at the referendum vote in favor thereof, the tax rates for
17 various purposes for the optional elementary unit district
18 shall be (here list the maximum tax rates for various
19 purposes the optional elementary unit district is
20 authorized to levy and, if applicable, the specifications
21 related to the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, in
22 accordance with Sections 11E-80 and 11E-95 of this Code)
23 and the elementary district, prior to dissolution, shall

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1 issue funding bonds pursuant to Sections 19-8 and 19-9 of
2 the School Code to liquidate any operational deficit or
3 debt incurred or accumulated since the date of the election
4 in which the proposition to form the optional elementary
5 unit district passed.
6 Dated (insert date).
7 Regional Superintendent of Schools ....................
8(Source: P.A. 94-1019, eff. 7-10-06.)
9 (105 ILCS 5/32-1.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 32-1.1)
10 Sec. 32-1.1. Election and powers of board - No provision in
11special act. In all special charter districts maintaining
12schools under any general school laws, where there is no
13provision in the special Acts creating such districts for the
14election of boards of education as otherwise provided, there
15shall be elected, in lieu of the school directors as now
16provided, a board of education, to consist of 7 members to be
17elected at the time and in the manner as provided by the
18general election law for the election and qualification of
19boards of education in other cases. In any district having a
20population of more than 100,000 but less than 2,000,000 such
21board may be increased in size to 11 members upon adoption by a
22majority of electors residing in the district and voting on the
23question in a referendum as provided in this Section. Such
24question shall be submitted to the electors at an election upon
25a resolution adopted by the Board. Members shall be elected

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1biennially in the school district, whose term of office shall
2be 4 years, and there shall also be elected in each
3even-numbered odd-numbered year a president of the board.
4Following the first such election, those members elected, other
5than the president, shall, by lot, determine 3 to serve 2 years
6and 3 to serve 4 years; thereafter, all terms shall be 4 years.
7In other cases, however, if 4 members, other than the
8president, are elected in 1983, then those elected shall, by
9lot, determine one to serve for 2 years and 3 to serve 4 years;
10thereafter all terms shall be 4 years. In neither case shall
11such determinations affect the biennial selection of the
12president. At the first regular school election after the
13adoption by the district electors of a question as provided in
14this Section increasing the size of the board in those
15districts entitled to exercise an option for and elect an 11
16member board, 4 additional members shall be elected and shall
17determine by lot 2 to serve for 2 years and 2 for 4 years. Their
18successors shall serve for a 4 year term. In case of an 11
19member board already in existence, if 7 members, other than the
20president, are elected in 1983 then those members elected
21shall, by lot determine one to serve 2 years and 6 to serve 4
22years. Terms thereafter shall be 4 years. The board of
23education shall have all the powers and duties of trustees of
24schools in school townships and the powers and duties of boards
25of education in districts having a population of not fewer than
261,000 and not more than 500,000 as provided by this Act.

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1 The day upon which the election provided for in this
2section is to be held is subject to the provisions of the
3general election law.
4(Source: P.A. 86-225.)
5 (105 ILCS 5/32-2.12) (from Ch. 122, par. 32-2.12)
6 Sec. 32-2.12. Time for election of board members. In all
7special charter districts, the regular election of members of
8such boards shall hereafter be held on the date set for school
9elections as provided in the general election law in odd
10numbered years.
11(Source: P.A. 81-1490.)