The amounts of the payments made in July of each year , if required : (i) shall be considered an outstanding liability as of the 30th day of June immediately preceding those July payments, within the meaning of Section 25 of this Act; (ii) shall be payable from the appropriation for the fiscal year that ended on that 30th day of June; and (iii) shall be considered payments for claims covering the school year that commenced during the immediately preceding calendar year.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection, as soon as may be after the 10th and 20th days of each of the months of August through May, 1/24, and on or as soon as may be after the 10th and 20th days of June, 1/12 of the annual amount appropriated to the State Board of Education for distribution and payment during that fiscal year from the Common School Fund to and for the benefit of the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois (until the end of State fiscal year 1995) and the Public School Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago as provided by the Illinois Pension Code and Section 18-7 of the School Code, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be transferred by the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund to permit semi-monthly payments from the Common School Fund to and for the benefit of such teacher retirement systems as required by Section 18-7 of the School Code.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, on or as soon as may be after the 15th day of each month, beginning in July of 1995, 1/12 of the annual amount appropriated for that fiscal year from the Common School Fund to the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois (other than amounts appropriated under Section 1.1 of the State Pension Funds Continuing Appropriation Act), or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be transferred by the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund to permit monthly payments from the Common School Fund to that retirement system in accordance with Section 16-158 of the Illinois Pension Code and Section 18-7 of the School Code, except that such transfers in fiscal year 2004 from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund for the benefit of the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois shall be reduced in the aggregate by the State Comptroller and State Treasurer to adjust for the amount transferred to the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 6z-61. Amounts appropriated to the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois under Section 1.1 of the State Pension Funds Continuing Appropriation Act shall be transferred by the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund as necessary to provide for the payment of vouchers drawn against those appropriations.
The Governor may notify the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller to transfer, at a time designated by the Governor, such additional amount as may be necessary to effect advance distribution to school districts of amounts that otherwise would be payable in the next month pursuant to Sections 18-8.05 through 18-9 of the School Code. The State Treasurer and the State Comptroller shall thereupon transfer such additional amount. The aggregate amount transferred from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund in the eleven months beginning August 1 of any fiscal year shall not be in excess of the amount necessary for payment of claims certified by the State Superintendent of Education pursuant to the appropriation of the Common School Fund for that fiscal year. Notwithstanding the provisions of the first paragraph in this section, no transfer to effect an advance distribution shall be made in any month except on notification, as provided above, by the Governor.
The State Comptroller and State Treasurer shall transfer from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund and the Education Assistance Fund such amounts as may be required to honor the vouchers presented by the State Board of Education pursuant to Sections 18-3, 18-4.3, 18-5, 18-6 and 18-7 of the School Code.
The State Comptroller shall report all transfers provided for in this Act to the President of the Senate, Minority Leader of the Senate, Speaker of the House, and Minority Leader of the House.
In the event the Governor makes notification to effect advanced distribution under the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section, the aggregate amount transferred from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund in the 12 months beginning August 1, 1981 or the 12 months beginning August 1, 1982 shall not be in excess of the amount necessary for payment of claims certified by the State Superintendent of Education pursuant to the appropriation of the Common School Fund for the fiscal years commencing on the first of July of the years 1981 and 1982.
30 ILCS 105/8a