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| 1 | AN ACT relating to schools.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Private Business and Vocational Schools Act | ||||||
| 5 | is amended by
changing Section 1.1 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 425/1.1)
(from Ch. 144, par. 136.1)
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| 7 | Sec. 1.1. Exemptions and annual filing.
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| 8 | (a) For purposes of this Act, the following shall
not be | ||||||
| 9 | considered to be a private business and vocational school:
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| 10 | (1) Any eleemosynary institution.
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| 11 | (2) Any religious institution.
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| 12 | (3) Any public educational institution exempt from | ||||||
| 13 | property taxation
under the laws of this State.
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| 14 | (4) Any in-service course of instruction and subject | ||||||
| 15 | offered by an
employer provided no tuition is charged and | ||||||
| 16 | such instruction is offered
only to employees of such | ||||||
| 17 | employer.
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| 18 | (5) Any educational institution (A) which (i) on the | ||||||
| 19 | effective
date of this amendatory Act of 1984 or which on | ||||||
| 20 | January 2, 2001 enrolls a
majority of its students in | ||||||
| 21 | degree programs and , has maintained an
accredited status | ||||||
| 22 | with the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of
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| 23 | the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools or | ||||||
| 24 | (ii) on or after the
effective date of this amendatory Act | ||||||
| 25 | of the 93rd General Assembly enrolls
students in one or | ||||||
| 26 | more bachelor-level programs,
enrolls a majority of its | ||||||
| 27 | students in degree
programs,
and is accredited by a
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| 28 | national accrediting agency that is recognized by the U.S. | ||||||
| 29 | Department of
Education , and (B) which is regulated by the | ||||||
| 30 | Illinois Board of Higher
Education under
the Private | ||||||
| 31 | College Act or the Academic Degree Act, or which is exempt | ||||||
| 32 | from
such regulation under either of the foregoing Acts | ||||||
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| 1 | solely for the reason that
such educational institution was | ||||||
| 2 | in operation on the effective date of either
such Act.
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| 3 | (6) Any institution and the franchisees of such | ||||||
| 4 | institution which offer
exclusively a course of | ||||||
| 5 | instruction in income tax theory or return preparation
at a | ||||||
| 6 | total contract price of no more than $400, provided that | ||||||
| 7 | the total annual
enrollment of such institution for all | ||||||
| 8 | such courses of instruction exceeds 500
students, and | ||||||
| 9 | further provided that the total contract price for all
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| 10 | instruction offered to a student in any one calendar year | ||||||
| 11 | does not exceed $400.
For each calendar year after 1990, | ||||||
| 12 | the total contract price shall be adjusted,
rounded off to | ||||||
| 13 | the nearest dollar, by the same percentage as the increase | ||||||
| 14 | or
decrease in the general price level as measured by the | ||||||
| 15 | consumer price index for
all urban consumers for the United | ||||||
| 16 | States, or its successor index, as defined
and officially | ||||||
| 17 | reported by the United States Department of Labor, or its
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| 18 | successor agency. The change in the index shall be that as | ||||||
| 19 | first published by
the Department of Labor for the calendar | ||||||
| 20 | year immediately preceding the year in
which the total | ||||||
| 21 | contract price is calculated.
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| 22 | (b) An institution exempted under subsection (a) of this | ||||||
| 23 | Section must file
with the Superintendent an annual financial | ||||||
| 24 | report to demonstrate continued
compliance by the institution | ||||||
| 25 | with the requirements on which the exemption is
based.
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| 26 | (Source: P.A. 92-62, eff. 1-1-02.)
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| 27 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 28 | becoming law.
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