Board of Education of Maine Township High School District 207 v. State Board of Education

This is the first judicial test of the State Mandates Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 85, par. 2201 et seq.). Plaintiffs are 15 local school districts that filed a declaratory judgment action against defendants, the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Education. Count I sought to declare Public Act 83 — 913 (Nurses’ Pay Bill) void in its entirety because a “fiscal note” was not prepared in accordance with section 8(b)(2) of the State Mandates Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 85, par. 2208(b)(2).) In Count II, plaintiffs asserted alternatively that the Nurses’ Pay Bill is…