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Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
Filed: 5/13/2015
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1818
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1818 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The University of Illinois Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 9 as follows:
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| 6 | | (110 ILCS 305/9) (from Ch. 144, par. 30)
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| 7 | | Sec. 9. Scholarships for children of veterans. For each of |
| 8 | | the following
periods of hostilities, each county shall be |
| 9 | | entitled, annually, to one
honorary scholarship in the |
| 10 | | University, for the benefit of the children of
persons who |
| 11 | | served in the armed forces of the United States, except that |
| 12 | | the total number of scholarships annually granted to recipients |
| 13 | | from each county may not exceed 3: the
Civil War, World War I, |
| 14 | | any time between September 16, 1940 and the
termination of |
| 15 | | World War II, any time during the national emergency
between |
| 16 | | June 25, 1950 and January 31, 1955, any time during the Viet
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| 1 | | Nam conflict between January 1, 1961 and May 7, 1975, any time |
| 2 | | during the siege of Beirut and the Grenada Conflict between |
| 3 | | June 14, 1982 and December 15, 1983, or any
time on or after |
| 4 | | August 2, 1990 and until Congress or the President orders that
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| 5 | | persons in service are no longer eligible for
the Southwest |
| 6 | | Asia Service Medal, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation |
| 7 | | Iraqi Freedom. Preference for scholarships shall be
given to |
| 8 | | the children of persons who are deceased or
disabled. Such |
| 9 | | scholarships shall be
granted to such pupils as shall, upon |
| 10 | | public examination, conducted as
the board of trustees of the |
| 11 | | University may determine, be decided to
have attained the |
| 12 | | greatest proficiency in the branches of learning
usually taught |
| 13 | | in the secondary schools, and who shall be of good moral
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| 14 | | character, and not less than 15 years of age. Such pupils, so |
| 15 | | selected,
shall be entitled to receive, without charge for |
| 16 | | tuition, instruction in
any or all departments of the |
| 17 | | University for a term of at least 4
consecutive years. Such |
| 18 | | pupils shall conform, in all respects, to the
rules and |
| 19 | | regulations of the University, established for the government
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| 20 | | of the pupils in attendance.
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| 21 | | (Source: P.A. 95-64, eff. 1-1-08.)
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| 22 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, |
| 23 | | 2015.".
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