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1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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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 School Code is amended by changing Sections | ||||||
5 | 30-9, 30-10,
30-11, and 30-12 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/30-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-9)
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7 | Sec. 30-9. General Assembly scholarship; conditions of | ||||||
8 | admission; award by
competitive examination. | ||||||
9 | (a) The provisions of this subsection (a) are subject to | ||||||
10 | subsection (b).
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11 | Each member of the General Assembly may nominate annually 2 | ||||||
12 | persons of
school age and otherwise eligible, from his | ||||||
13 | district; each shall
receive a
certificate of scholarship in | ||||||
14 | any State supported
university designated by the member. Any | ||||||
15 | member of the General Assembly in
making nominations under this | ||||||
16 | Section may designate that his nominee be
granted a 4 year | ||||||
17 | scholarship or may instead designate 2 or 4 nominees for
that | ||||||
18 | particular scholarship, each to receive a 2 year or a one year
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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 | ||||||
23 | accredited schools. If the nominee is not a graduate of
a | ||||||
24 | school accredited by the university to which nominated, he | ||||||
25 | must, before
being entitled to the benefits of the scholarship, | ||||||
26 | pass an examination
given by the superintendent of schools of | ||||||
27 | the county where he resides at
the time stated in Section 30-7 | ||||||
28 | for the competitive examination. The
president of each | ||||||
29 | university shall prescribe the rules governing the
examination | ||||||
30 | for scholarship to his university.
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31 | A member of the General Assembly may award the scholarship | ||||||
32 | by
competitive examination conducted under like rules as |
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1 | prescribed in Section
30-7 even though one or more of the | ||||||
2 | applicants are graduates of schools
accredited by the | ||||||
3 | university.
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4 | A member of the General Assembly may delegate to the | ||||||
5 | Illinois Student
Assistance Commission the authority to | ||||||
6 | nominate persons for General Assembly
scholarships which that | ||||||
7 | member would otherwise be entitled to award, or may
direct the | ||||||
8 | Commission to evaluate and make recommendations to the member
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9 | concerning candidates for such scholarships. In the event a | ||||||
10 | member
delegates his nominating authority or directs the | ||||||
11 | Commission to evaluate
and make recommendations concerning | ||||||
12 | candidates for General Assembly
scholarships, the member shall | ||||||
13 | inform the Commission in writing of the
criteria which he | ||||||
14 | wishes the Commission to apply in nominating or
recommending | ||||||
15 | candidates. Those criteria may include some or all of the
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16 | criteria provided in Section 25 of the Higher Education Student
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17 | Assistance Act. A delegation of authority under this paragraph | ||||||
18 | may be revoked
at any time by the member.
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19 | Failure of a member of the General Assembly to make a | ||||||
20 | nomination in any
year shall not cause that scholarship to | ||||||
21 | lapse, but the member may make a
nomination for such | ||||||
22 | scholarship at any time thereafter through June 1,
2004;
before | ||||||
23 | the
expiration of his term, and the person so nominated shall | ||||||
24 | be entitled to
the same benefits as holders of other | ||||||
25 | scholarships provided herein. Any
such scholarship for which a | ||||||
26 | member has made no nomination on or before June
1, 2004
prior | ||||||
27 | to the
expiration of the term for which he was elected shall | ||||||
28 | lapse upon the
expiration of that term.
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29 | (b) After June 1, 2004 no
person may be nominated to | ||||||
30 | receive any one-year, 2-year, 4-year, or other
scholarship or | ||||||
31 | certificate of scholarship under this Section, nor may any such
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32 | scholarship be awarded under this Section after June 1, 2004,
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33 | unless the person was nominated prior to that
date to receive | ||||||
34 | that scholarship.
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35 | (Source: P.A. 93-349, eff. 7-24-03.)
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1 | (105 ILCS 5/30-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-10)
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2 | Sec. 30-10. Filing nominations-Failure to accept or | ||||||
3 | pass-Second
nomination. Nominations that are made , under | ||||||
4 | Section 30-9 on or before June 1, 2004 and that show , showing
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5 | the name and address of the
nominee, and the term of the | ||||||
6 | scholarship, whether 4 years, 2 years or
one year, must be | ||||||
7 | filed with the State Superintendent of Education not later
than | ||||||
8 | the opening day of the semester or term with which the | ||||||
9 | scholarship is to
become effective. The State
Superintendent of | ||||||
10 | Education shall forthwith notify the
president of the | ||||||
11 | university of such nomination. No valid nomination to any | ||||||
12 | scholarship may be made
under Section 30-9 after June 1, 2004.
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13 | If the nominee fails to accept the nomination or, not being | ||||||
14 | a
graduate of a school accredited by the university, fails to | ||||||
15 | pass the
examination for admission, the president of the | ||||||
16 | university shall at once
notify the State Superintendent of | ||||||
17 | Education. Upon receiving such notification,
the State | ||||||
18 | Superintendent of Education shall notify the nominating
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19 | member, who may , on or before, but not after June 1, 2004, name | ||||||
20 | another person for the scholarship. The second
nomination must | ||||||
21 | be received by the State Superintendent of Education not
later | ||||||
22 | than the middle of the semester or term with which the | ||||||
23 | scholarship
was to have become effective under the original | ||||||
24 | nomination in order to
become effective as of the opening date | ||||||
25 | of such semester or term
otherwise it shall not become | ||||||
26 | effective until the beginning of the next
semester or term | ||||||
27 | following the making of the second nomination , provided
that | ||||||
28 | the second nomination must be made, if at all, on or before | ||||||
29 | June 1, 2004
or the scholarship shall be deemed to have lapsed | ||||||
30 | by operation of law . Upon
receiving such notification of a | ||||||
31 | second nomination on or before June 1, 2004 , the State | ||||||
32 | Superintendent of Education shall
notify the president of the | ||||||
33 | university of such second nomination.
If any person nominated | ||||||
34 | after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of 1973 to | ||||||
35 | receive a General Assembly scholarship changes his residence
to | ||||||
36 | a location outside of the district from which he was nominated, |
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1 | his
nominating member may terminate that scholarship at the | ||||||
2 | conclusion of
the college year in which he is then enrolled , | ||||||
3 | but after June 1, 2004 no
person may be
nominated to receive or | ||||||
4 | otherwise be awarded all or any part of the
scholarship that is | ||||||
5 | unused or unexpired at the time the scholarship is so
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6 | terminated . For purposes of this
paragraph, a person changes | ||||||
7 | his residence if he registers to vote in a
location outside of | ||||||
8 | the district from which he was nominated, but does
not change | ||||||
9 | his residence merely by taking off-campus housing or living
in | ||||||
10 | a nonuniversity residence.
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11 | (Source: P.A. 93-349, eff. 7-24-03.)
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12 | (105 ILCS 5/30-11) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-11)
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13 | Sec. 30-11. Failure to use scholarship - Further | ||||||
14 | nominations. If any nominee under Section 30-9 or 30-10 | ||||||
15 | discontinues his course
of instruction or fails to use the | ||||||
16 | scholarship, leaving 1, 2, 3, or 4
years thereof unused, the | ||||||
17 | member of the General Assembly may, except as
otherwise | ||||||
18 | provided in this Article, nominate some other person eligible
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19 | under this Article from his district who shall be entitled to | ||||||
20 | the
scholarship for the unexpired period thereof ; provided that | ||||||
21 | the nomination for the unexpired period of the
scholarship must | ||||||
22 | be made, if at all, on or before June 1, 2004 or the
nomination | ||||||
23 | shall be invalid, and the scholarship and its unexpired period
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24 | shall be deemed to have lapsed by operation of law . Such | ||||||
25 | appointment to an
unexpired scholarship vacated before July 1, | ||||||
26 | 1961, may be made only by
the member of the General Assembly | ||||||
27 | who made the original appointment and
during the time he is | ||||||
28 | such a member. If a scholarship is vacated on or
after July 1, | ||||||
29 | 1961, and the member of the General Assembly who made the
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30 | original appointment has ceased to be a member, some eligible | ||||||
31 | person may
be nominated in the following manner to fill the | ||||||
32 | vacancy: If the
original appointment was made by a Senator, | ||||||
33 | such nomination shall be
made by the Senator from the same | ||||||
34 | district; if the original appointment
was made by a | ||||||
35 | Representative,
such nomination
shall be made by the |
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1 | Representative
from the same district. Every nomination to fill | ||||||
2 | a vacancy must
be made on or before June 1, 2004 and
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3 | accompanied either by a release of the original nominee or if | ||||||
4 | he is
dead then an affidavit to that effect by some competent | ||||||
5 | person. The
failure of a nominee to register at the university | ||||||
6 | within 20 days after
the opening of any semester or term shall | ||||||
7 | be deemed a release by him of
the nomination, unless he has | ||||||
8 | been granted a leave of absence in
accordance with Section | ||||||
9 | 30-14 or unless his absence is by reason of his
entry into the | ||||||
10 | military service of the United States. The university shall | ||||||
11 | immediately upon the
expiration of 20 days after the beginning | ||||||
12 | of the semester or term notify
the State Board of Education
as | ||||||
13 | to the status of each
scholarship, who shall forthwith notify | ||||||
14 | the nominating member of any
nominee's failure to register or, | ||||||
15 | if the nominating member has ceased to
be a member of the | ||||||
16 | General Assembly, shall notify the member or members
entitled | ||||||
17 | to make the nomination to fill the vacancy. All nominations to | ||||||
18 | unused
or unexpired scholarships , if made on or before June 1, | ||||||
19 | 2004, shall be effective as of the opening of the semester
or | ||||||
20 | term of the university during which they are made if they are | ||||||
21 | filed with
the university during the first half of the semester | ||||||
22 | or term, otherwise
they shall not be effective until the | ||||||
23 | opening of the next following
semester or term ; provided that | ||||||
24 | no nomination to an unused or unexpired
scholarship is valid if | ||||||
25 | made after June 1, 2004, and an unused or unexpired
scholarship | ||||||
26 | shall be deemed to have lapsed by operation of law unless the
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27 | nomination to that unused or unexpired scholarship is made on | ||||||
28 | or before June 1,
2004 .
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29 | (Source: P.A. 93-349, eff. 7-24-03.)
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30 | (105 ILCS 5/30-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-12)
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31 | Sec. 30-12. Failure to begin or discontinuance of course | ||||||
32 | because of military service. Any nominee, under Sections 30-9, | ||||||
33 | 30-10, or 30-11, who fails to begin
or discontinues his course | ||||||
34 | of instruction because of his entry into the
military service | ||||||
35 | of the United States, leaving all or a portion of the
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1 | scholarship unused, may, upon completion of such service, use | ||||||
2 | the
scholarship or the unused portion thereof, regardless of | ||||||
3 | whether or not the
member of the General Assembly who nominated | ||||||
4 | him is then a member; provided
that during the nominee's period | ||||||
5 | of military service no other person may be
nominated by such | ||||||
6 | member to all or any portion of such unused or unfinished
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7 | scholarship unless the nomination is accompanied either by a | ||||||
8 | release of the
original nominee or if he is dead then an | ||||||
9 | affidavit to that effect by some
competent person and unless | ||||||
10 | the nomination is made on or before June 1,
2004 .
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11 | (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31 .)
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12 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
13 | becoming law. |