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Sen. Steve Stadelman
Filed: 4/5/2019
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 457
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 457 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The University of Illinois Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 9 as follows:
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| 6 | | (110 ILCS 305/9) (from Ch. 144, par. 30)
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| 7 | | Sec. 9. Scholarships for children of veterans. For each of |
| 8 | | the following
periods of hostilities, each county shall be |
| 9 | | entitled, annually, to one
honorary scholarship in the |
| 10 | | University, for the benefit of the children of
persons who |
| 11 | | served in the armed forces of the United States, except that |
| 12 | | the total number of scholarships annually granted to recipients |
| 13 | | from each county may not exceed 3: any time between September |
| 14 | | 16, 1940 and the
termination of World War II, any time during |
| 15 | | the national emergency
between June 25, 1950 and January 31, |
| 16 | | 1955, any time during the Viet
Nam conflict between January 1, |
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| 1 | | 1961 and May 7, 1975, any time during the siege of Beirut and |
| 2 | | the Grenada Conflict between June 14, 1982 and December 15, |
| 3 | | 1983, or any
time on or after August 2, 1990 and until Congress |
| 4 | | or the President orders that
persons in service are no longer |
| 5 | | eligible for
the Southwest Asia Service Medal, Operation |
| 6 | | Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Preference for |
| 7 | | scholarships shall be
given to the children of persons who are |
| 8 | | deceased or to the children of persons who have a disability, |
| 9 | | including the children of veterans who were police officers or |
| 10 | | fire officers and were killed in the line of duty while |
| 11 | | employed by, or in the voluntary service of, this State or any |
| 12 | | local public entity in this State. Such scholarships shall be
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| 13 | | granted to such pupils as shall, upon public examination, |
| 14 | | conducted as
the board of trustees of the University may |
| 15 | | determine, be decided to
have attained the greatest proficiency |
| 16 | | in the branches of learning
usually taught in the secondary |
| 17 | | schools, and who shall be of good moral
character, and not less |
| 18 | | than 15 years of age. Such pupils, so selected,
shall be |
| 19 | | entitled to receive, without charge for tuition, instruction in
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| 20 | | any or all departments of the University for a term of at least |
| 21 | | 4
consecutive years. Such pupils shall conform, in all |
| 22 | | respects, to the
rules and regulations of the University, |
| 23 | | established for the government
of the pupils in attendance.
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| 24 | | (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 99-377, eff. 8-17-15; |
| 25 | | 99-642, eff. 7-28-16.)
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