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.