Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB 5122

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Makes post-secondary education tuition and fee waivers available to youth for whom the Department of Children and Family Services has court-ordered legal responsibility, youth who aged out of care at age 18 or older, or youth formerly under care who have been adopted and were the subject of an adoption assistance agreement or who have been placed in private guardianship and were the subject of a subsidized guardianship agreement. Requires applicants to have earned a high school diploma from an accredited institution or a high school equivalency certificate or have met the State criteria for high school graduation before the start of the school year for which they are applying for the waivers. Limits the tuition and fee waivers to persons under the age of 26 and provides that waivers shall be available to a student for at least the first 5 years the student is enrolled in a community college, university, or college maintained by the State. Provides that the age requirement and 5-year cap on tuition and fee waivers shall be waived and eligibility extended for applicants or students who were unable to enroll in a qualifying post-secondary school or complete an academic term because the student: (i) was called into active duty with the United States Armed Forces; (ii) was deployed for service in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; or (iii) volunteered in the Peace Corps or the AmeriCorps. Permits the Department to provide the student with a stipend to cover maintenance and school expenses during the academic years to supplement the student's earnings. Requires the Department to develop outreach programs to ensure qualifying youths are aware of the availability of the tuition and fee waivers.

Provides that qualifying youth shall receive a tuition and fee waiver to assist them in attending and completing their post-secondary education (rather than a waiver of all tuition and fees to attend and complete their post-secondary education). In provisions requiring an applicant to meet certain academic and age requirements, provides that the applicant must also apply for federal and State grant assistance by completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Provides that the community college or public university that an applicant attends must waive any tuition and fee amounts that exceed the amounts paid to the applicant under the federal Pell Grant Program or the State's Monetary Award Program.

Date	Chamber	Action
8/23/2018	House	Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-1045

Date	Chamber	Action
2/15/2018	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch
2/16/2018	House	First Reading
2/16/2018	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2/27/2018	House	Assigned to Appropriations-Higher Education Committee
2/27/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lou Lang
3/8/2018	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Steven A. Andersson
3/8/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Theresa Mah
3/8/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert Martwick
3/8/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr.
3/8/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy
3/8/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ann M. Williams
3/8/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Christian L. Mitchell
3/12/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Robyn Gabel
3/13/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Laura Fine
3/13/2018	House	Removed Co-Sponsor Rep. Laura Fine
3/27/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jay Hoffman
4/9/2018	House	Motion Filed to Suspend Rule 21 Appropriations-Higher Education Committee; Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie
4/9/2018	House	Motion to Suspend Rule 21 - Prevailed
4/11/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kathleen Willis
4/11/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
4/11/2018	House	Do Pass / Short Debate Appropriations-Higher Education Committee; 014-006-000
4/11/2018	House	Removed Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
4/12/2018	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
4/12/2018	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. William Davis
4/12/2018	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Laura Fine
4/12/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Mary E. Flowers
4/13/2018	House	Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
4/13/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Deb Conroy
4/16/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sara Feigenholtz
4/16/2018	House	Fiscal Note Requested by Rep. Tom Demmer
4/16/2018	House	State Mandates Fiscal Note Requested by Rep. Tom Demmer
4/17/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Will Guzzardi
4/17/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. David S. Olsen
4/18/2018	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch
4/18/2018	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
4/19/2018	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Appropriations-Higher Education Committee
4/19/2018	House	State Mandates Fiscal Note Filed
4/20/2018	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Appropriations-Higher Education Committee; 012-000-000
4/20/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Margo McDermed
4/20/2018	House	Fiscal Note Filed
4/23/2018	House	Second Reading - Short Debate
4/23/2018	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted
4/23/2018	House	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
4/24/2018	House	Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 096-015-000
4/24/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Nick Sauer
4/24/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. John M. Cabello
4/24/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Mark Batinick
4/24/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. LaToya Greenwood
4/24/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Juliana Stratton
4/24/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons
4/24/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez
4/24/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly
4/24/2018	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Katie Stuart
4/24/2018	Senate	Arrive in Senate
4/24/2018	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 25, 2018
4/25/2018	Senate	Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro
4/25/2018	Senate	First Reading
4/25/2018	Senate	Referred to Assignments
5/1/2018	Senate	Assigned to Human Services
5/9/2018	Senate	Postponed - Human Services
5/11/2018	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 31, 2018
5/15/2018	Senate	Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Omar Aquino
5/16/2018	Senate	Do Pass Human Services; 006-004-000
5/16/2018	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 17, 2018
5/17/2018	Senate	Second Reading
5/17/2018	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 18, 2018
5/18/2018	Senate	Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. John G. Mulroe
5/25/2018	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 31, 2018
5/29/2018	Senate	Third Reading - Passed; 037-013-000
5/29/2018	House	Passed Both Houses
5/29/2018	Senate	Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
5/29/2018	Senate	Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Karen McConnaughay
6/27/2018	House	Sent to the Governor
8/23/2018	House	Governor Approved
8/23/2018	House	Effective Date January 1, 2019
8/23/2018	House	Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-1045

	State Mandates Fiscal Note (Dept. of Commerce & Economic Opportunity)
	This bill does not create a State mandate.

	Fiscal Note (Dept. of Children & Family Services)
	If just 10% of the 11,000 eligible youth took advantage of the opportunity, the Department of Children and Family Services would be looking at an additional cost to the stipend program of $562,000 per month and $6,744,000 annually.