093_HB0344

 
                                     LRB093 04379 NHT 04429 b

 1        AN ACT concerning higher education.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 1.  Short title. This Act may  be  cited  as  the
 5    Higher Education Institution Crime Statistics Act.

 6        Section 5.  Crime statistics audit.
 7        (a)  On  or  before  January  1,  2004, and every 3 years
 8    thereafter, the Auditor General shall conduct and report  the
 9    results  of  an  audit  of  a  sample  of  not  less  than  6
10    institutions  of  higher  education  in Illinois that receive
11    federal  student  aid  to  evaluate  the  accuracy  of  these
12    institutions' statistics and the  procedures  used  by  these
13    institutions   to   identify,  gather,  and  track  data  for
14    publishing,  disseminating,  and  reporting  accurate   crime
15    statistics in compliance with the requirements of the federal
16    Jeanne  Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus
17    Crime Statistics Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1092(f)).
18        (b)  The reports on the results of the  audits  described
19    in  subsection  (a) of this Section shall be submitted to the
20    General Assembly and the Governor.

21        Section 10.  Web site link. The Auditor General  and  the
22    Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority shall provide
23    on  their  Internet Web sites a link to the Internet Web site
24    of  each  Illinois  institution  of  higher  education   that
25    includes   on   that  Web  site  the  institution's  criminal
26    statistics information.

27        Section 99.  Effective date. This Act takes  effect  upon
28    becoming law.