SCH CONTIN APPROP-CATEGORICALS

Amends the State Aid Continuing Appropriation Law. Provides that the Law constitutes an irrevocable and continuing appropriation from the Common School Fund of all amounts necessary if the General Assembly fails to make Common School Fund appropriations to the State Board of Education sufficient to fund the disbursement for programs that are described in the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act and provisions of the School Code concerning children attending private schools, public out-of-state schools, public school residential facilities, or private special education facilities; children requiring extraordinary special education services and facilities; special education classes for children from orphanages, foster family homes, children's homes, or in State housing units; reimbursement for furnishing special educational facilities in a recognized school to children with disabilities; tuition of children from orphanages and children's homes; summer school grants; and reimbursement for transportation. Effective July 1, 2003.