Rep. Fred Crespo
Filed: 4/19/2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2214
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2214 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
5 | 30-9 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.
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9 | Each member of the General Assembly may nominate annually 2 | ||||||
10 | persons of
school age and otherwise eligible, from his or her
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11 | district; each shall
receive a
certificate of scholarship in | ||||||
12 | any State supported
university designated by the member. Any | ||||||
13 | member of the General Assembly in
making nominations under this | ||||||
14 | Section may designate that his nominee be
granted a 4 year | ||||||
15 | scholarship or may instead designate 2 or 4 nominees for
that | ||||||
16 | particular scholarship, each to receive a 2 year or a one year
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1 | scholarship, respectively. The nominee, if a graduate of a | ||||||
2 | school
accredited by the University to which nominated, shall | ||||||
3 | be admitted to the
university on the same conditions as to | ||||||
4 | educational qualifications as are
other graduates of | ||||||
5 | accredited schools. If the nominee is not a graduate of
a | ||||||
6 | school accredited by the university to which nominated, he or | ||||||
7 | she must, before
being entitled to the benefits of the | ||||||
8 | scholarship, pass an examination
given by the superintendent of | ||||||
9 | schools of the county where he or she resides at
the time | ||||||
10 | stated in Section 30-7 (now repealed) for the competitive | ||||||
11 | examination. The
president of each university shall prescribe | ||||||
12 | the rules governing the
examination for scholarship to his or | ||||||
13 | her university.
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14 | A member of the General Assembly may award the scholarship | ||||||
15 | by
competitive examination conducted under like rules as | ||||||
16 | prescribed in Section
30-7 (now repealed) even though one or | ||||||
17 | more of the applicants are graduates of schools
accredited by | ||||||
18 | the university.
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19 | The Illinois Student Assistance Commission must develop a | ||||||
20 | standard General Assembly scholarship application and shall be | ||||||
21 | responsible for the administration of the application process. | ||||||
22 | An application must be submitted by all scholarship candidates | ||||||
23 | and received by the Commission. The Commission shall adopt | ||||||
24 | rules to govern the application process. A member of the | ||||||
25 | General Assembly may delegate to the Illinois Student
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26 | Assistance Commission the authority to nominate persons for |
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1 | General Assembly
scholarships which that member would | ||||||
2 | otherwise be entitled to award, or may
direct the Commission to | ||||||
3 | evaluate and make recommendations to the member
concerning | ||||||
4 | candidates for such scholarships. In the event a member
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5 | delegates his or her nominating authority or directs the | ||||||
6 | Commission to evaluate
and make recommendations concerning | ||||||
7 | candidates for General Assembly
scholarships, the member shall | ||||||
8 | inform the Commission in writing of the
criteria which he or | ||||||
9 | she wishes the Commission to apply in nominating or
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10 | recommending candidates. Those criteria may include some or all | ||||||
11 | of the
criteria provided in Section 25 of the Higher Education | ||||||
12 | Student
Assistance Act. A delegation of authority under this | ||||||
13 | paragraph may be revoked
at any time by the member.
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14 | Failure of a member of the General Assembly to make a | ||||||
15 | nomination in any
year shall not cause that scholarship to | ||||||
16 | lapse, but the member may make a
nomination for such | ||||||
17 | scholarship at any time thereafter before the
expiration of his | ||||||
18 | or her term, and the person so nominated shall be entitled to
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19 | the same benefits as holders of other scholarships provided | ||||||
20 | herein. Any
such scholarship for which a member has made no | ||||||
21 | nomination prior to the
expiration of the term for which he or | ||||||
22 | she was elected shall lapse upon the
expiration of that term.
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23 | (Source: P.A. 93-349, eff. 7-24-03.)".
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