Public Act 099-0377
 
SB1818 EnrolledLRB099 10038 NHT 30260 b


  
    AN ACT concerning education.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  






 
 
    Section 5. The University of Illinois Act is amended  by 
changing Section 9 as follows:
 



    (110 ILCS 305/9)  (from Ch. 144, par. 30)



    Sec. 9. Scholarships for children of veterans. For each of 
the following
periods of hostilities, each county shall be 
entitled, annually, to one
honorary scholarship in the 
University, for the benefit of the children of
persons who 
served in the armed forces of the United States, except that 
the total number of scholarships annually granted to recipients 
from each county may not exceed 3: the
Civil War, World War I, 
any time between September 16, 1940 and the
termination of 
World War II, any time during the national emergency
between 
June 25, 1950 and January 31, 1955, any time during the Viet

Nam conflict between January 1, 1961 and May 7, 1975, any time 
during the siege of Beirut and the Grenada Conflict between 
June 14, 1982 and December 15, 1983, or any
time on or after 
August 2, 1990 and until Congress or the President orders that

persons in service are no longer eligible for
the Southwest 
Asia Service Medal, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation 
Iraqi Freedom.  Preference for scholarships shall be
given to 
the children of persons who are deceased or
disabled.    Such 
scholarships shall be
granted to such pupils as shall, upon 
public examination, conducted as
the board of trustees of the 
University may determine, be decided to
have attained the 
greatest proficiency in the branches of learning
usually taught 
in the secondary schools, and who shall be of good moral

character, and not less than 15 years of age.  Such pupils, so 
selected,
shall be entitled to receive, without charge for 
tuition, instruction in
any or all departments of the 
University for a term of at least 4
consecutive years.  Such 
pupils shall conform, in all respects, to the
rules and 
regulations of the University, established for the government

of the pupils in attendance.

(Source: P.A. 95-64, eff. 1-1-08.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 
2015.