093_HB0344
LRB093 04379 NHT 04429 b
1 AN ACT concerning higher education.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5 Higher Education Institution Crime Statistics Act.
6 Section 5. Crime statistics audit.
7 (a) On or before January 1, 2004, and every 3 years
8 thereafter, the Auditor General shall conduct and report the
9 results of an audit of a sample of not less than 6
10 institutions of higher education in Illinois that receive
11 federal student aid to evaluate the accuracy of these
12 institutions' statistics and the procedures used by these
13 institutions to identify, gather, and track data for
14 publishing, disseminating, and reporting accurate crime
15 statistics in compliance with the requirements of the federal
16 Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus
17 Crime Statistics Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1092(f)).
18 (b) The reports on the results of the audits described
19 in subsection (a) of this Section shall be submitted to the
20 General Assembly and the Governor.
21 Section 10. Web site link. The Auditor General and the
22 Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority shall provide
23 on their Internet Web sites a link to the Internet Web site
24 of each Illinois institution of higher education that
25 includes on that Web site the institution's criminal
26 statistics information.
27 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
28 becoming law.