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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Board of Higher Education Act is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 9.29 as follows:
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| 6 | (110 ILCS 205/9.29)
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| 7 | Sec. 9.29. Tuition and fee waiver report. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) The Board of Higher Education
shall
annually
compile | ||||||
| 9 | information concerning tuition and fee waivers and tuition and | ||||||
| 10 | fee
waiver
programs that has been
provided by
the Boards of | ||||||
| 11 | Trustees of the University of Illinois, Southern Illinois
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| 12 | University, Chicago
State University, Eastern Illinois | ||||||
| 13 | University, Governors State University,
Illinois State
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| 14 | University, Northeastern Illinois University, Northern | ||||||
| 15 | Illinois University, and
Western
Illinois University and shall | ||||||
| 16 | report its findings and recommendations
concerning tuition and | ||||||
| 17 | fee
waivers and tuition and fee waiver programs to the General | ||||||
| 18 | Assembly by filing electronic or paper
copies of
its
report by | ||||||
| 19 | December
31 of
each year as provided in Section 3.1 of the | ||||||
| 20 | General Assembly Organization
Act. | ||||||
| 21 | (b) No later than July 1, 2020, and annually thereafter, | ||||||
| 22 | each public university must submit a report to the Board of | ||||||
| 23 | Higher Education on the amount of tuition that undergraduate, | ||||||
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| 1 | degree-seeking students attending the university paid in the | ||||||
| 2 | previous academic year that includes all of the following | ||||||
| 3 | information: | ||||||
| 4 | (1) The percentage of undergraduate students who paid | ||||||
| 5 | more than 75% of full tuition costs. | ||||||
| 6 | (2) The percentage of undergraduate students who paid | ||||||
| 7 | more than 50% but no more than 75% of full tuition costs. | ||||||
| 8 | (3) The percentage of undergraduate students who paid | ||||||
| 9 | more than 25% but no more than 50% of full tuition costs. | ||||||
| 10 | (4) The percentage of undergraduate students who paid | ||||||
| 11 | no more than 25% of full tuition costs. | ||||||
| 12 | (5) The percentage of undergraduate students who had no | ||||||
| 13 | tuition costs. | ||||||
| 14 | The tuition costs calculated under this subsection must reflect | ||||||
| 15 | the amount of tuition paid by a student after all scholarships, | ||||||
| 16 | grants, and other financial assistance have been applied to his | ||||||
| 17 | or her tuition charge and must reflect only the amounts paid by | ||||||
| 18 | undergraduate, degree-seeking students. | ||||||
| 19 | The Board of Higher Education must annually compile and | ||||||
| 20 | submit to the General Assembly, as part of the report required | ||||||
| 21 | under subsection (a), the information received under this | ||||||
| 22 | subsection.
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| 23 | (Source: P.A. 100-167, eff. 1-1-18.)
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