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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1286
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 1286 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
5 Section 30-9 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/30-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-9)
7 Sec. 30-9. General Assembly scholarships scholarship;
8 conditions of admission; award by competitive examination.
9 Each member of the General Assembly may nominate annually 2
10 persons of school age and otherwise eligible, from his
11 district; one shall receive a certificate of scholarship in
12 the University of Illinois and the other shall receive a
13 certificate of scholarship in any other State supported
14 university designated by the member. Any member of the
15 General Assembly in making nominations under this Section may
16 designate that his nominee be granted a 4 year scholarship or
17 may instead designate 2 or 4 nominees for that particular
18 scholarship, each to receive a 2 year or a one year
19 scholarship, respectively. The nominee, if a graduate of a
20 school accredited by the University to which nominated, shall
21 be admitted to the university on the same conditions as to
22 educational qualifications as are other graduates of
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1 accredited schools. If the nominee is not a graduate of a
2 school accredited by the university to which nominated, he
3 must, before being entitled to the benefits of the
4 scholarship, pass an examination given by the superintendent
5 of schools of the county where he resides at the time stated
6 in Section 30-7 for the competitive examination. The
7 president of each university shall prescribe the rules
8 governing the examination for scholarship to his university.
9 A member of the General Assembly may award the
10 scholarship by competitive examination conducted under like
11 rules as prescribed in Section 30-7 even though one or more
12 of the applicants are graduates of schools accredited by the
13 university.
14 A member of the General Assembly may delegate to the
15 Illinois Student Assistance Commission the authority to
16 nominate persons for General Assembly scholarships which that
17 member would otherwise be entitled to award, or may direct
18 the Commission to evaluate and make recommendations to the
19 member concerning candidates for such scholarships. In the
20 event a member delegates his nominating authority or directs
21 the Commission to evaluate and make recommendations
22 concerning candidates for General Assembly scholarships, the
23 member shall inform the Commission in writing of the criteria
24 which he wishes the Commission to apply in nominating or
25 recommending candidates. Those criteria may include some or
26 all of the criteria provided in Section 25 of the Higher
27 Education Student Assistance Act. A delegation of authority
28 under this paragraph may be revoked at any time by the
29 member.
30 Failure of a member of the General Assembly to make a
31 nomination in any year shall not cause that scholarship to
32 lapse, but the member may make a nomination for such
33 scholarship at any time thereafter before the expiration of
34 his term, and the person so nominated shall be entitled to
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1 the same benefits as holders of other scholarships provided
2 herein. Any such scholarship for which a member has made no
3 nomination prior to the expiration of the term for which he
4 was elected shall lapse upon the expiration of that term.
5 (Source: P.A. 87-997.)".