Full Text of SB2225 94th General Assembly
SB2225eng 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Board of Higher Education Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 9.07 as follows:
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| (110 ILCS 205/9.07) (from Ch. 144, par. 189.07)
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| Sec. 9.07. Admission standards.
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| (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), to
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| establish minimum admission standards for public community | 10 |
| colleges,
colleges and state universities. However, | 11 |
| notwithstanding any other
provision of this Section or any | 12 |
| other law of this State, the minimum admission
standards | 13 |
| established by the Board shall not directly or indirectly | 14 |
| authorize
or require a State college or university to | 15 |
| discriminate in the admissions
process against an applicant for | 16 |
| admission because of the applicant's
enrollment in a charter | 17 |
| school
established under
Article 27A of the School Code. | 18 |
| Admission standards for out-of-state
students may be higher | 19 |
| than for Illinois residents.
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| (b) Implementation of the new statewide minimum admission | 21 |
| requirements
and standards for public colleges and | 22 |
| universities in Illinois established
and announced by the Board | 23 |
| in December, 1985 shall be deferred as provided
in this | 24 |
| subsection. The Board shall not attempt to implement or | 25 |
| otherwise
effect adoption and establishment of those minimum | 26 |
| admission requirements
and standards in any public community | 27 |
| college, college or State university
prior to the fall of 1993, | 28 |
| and no public community college, college or
State university | 29 |
| shall be under any duty or obligation to implement,
establish | 30 |
| or otherwise apply those minimum admission requirements and
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| standards to any entering freshmen prior to the fall of 1993.
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| The Board of Higher Education shall provide the State |
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| Superintendent of
Education, on or before January 1, 1990, | 2 |
| descriptions of
course content, and such other criteria as are | 3 |
| necessary to determine and
certify whether all school districts | 4 |
| maintaining grades 9-12 are offering
courses which satisfy the | 5 |
| minimum admission requirements and standards
established and | 6 |
| announced by the Board.
In addition, there shall be established | 7 |
| a 9 member committee composed
of 3 members selected by the | 8 |
| Board of Higher Education, 3 members selected
by the State | 9 |
| Superintendent of Education and 3 members selected by the
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| President of the Illinois Vocational Association. The | 11 |
| committee shall be
appointed within 30 days after the effective | 12 |
| date of this amendatory Act.
It shall be the duty and | 13 |
| responsibility of the committee to identify and
develop courses | 14 |
| and curricula in the vocational education area which meet
the | 15 |
| minimum admission requirements and standards to be established | 16 |
| and
implemented under this Section. The first meeting of the | 17 |
| committee shall
be called by the Executive Director of the | 18 |
| Board of Higher Education
within 10 days after the committee is | 19 |
| appointed. At its first meeting the
committee shall organize | 20 |
| and elect a chairperson. The committee's report
shall be | 21 |
| prepared and submitted by the committee to the Board of Higher
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| Education, the Illinois State Board of Education and the | 23 |
| General Assembly
by April 1, 1989.
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| (c) By March 1, 1980, the Boards shall develop guidelines | 25 |
| which: (1) place
the emphasis on postsecondary remedial | 26 |
| programs at Public Community Colleges
and (2) reduces the role | 27 |
| of the state universities in offering remedial
programs. By | 28 |
| June 30, 1981, the Board shall report to the General Assembly
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| the progress made toward this transition in the emphasis on | 30 |
| remedial programs
at the postsecondary level and any | 31 |
| legislative action that it deems
appropriate. Under the | 32 |
| guidelines, if a State university determines that a student | 33 |
| needs remedial coursework, then the university must require | 34 |
| that the student complete the remedial coursework.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-450, eff. 4-10-96.)
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| Section 10. The Higher Education Student Assistance Act is | 2 |
| amended by changing Section 35 as follows:
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| (110 ILCS 947/35)
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| Sec. 35. Monetary award program.
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| (a) The Commission shall, each year, receive and consider | 6 |
| applications
for grant assistance under this Section. Subject | 7 |
| to a separate
appropriation for such purposes, an applicant is | 8 |
| eligible for a grant under
this Section when the Commission | 9 |
| finds that the applicant:
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| (1) is a resident of this State and a citizen or | 11 |
| permanent resident
of the United States; and
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| (2) in the absence of grant assistance, will be | 13 |
| deterred by
financial considerations from completing an | 14 |
| educational program at the
qualified institution of his or | 15 |
| her choice.
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| (b) The Commission shall award renewals only upon the | 17 |
| student's application
and upon the Commission's finding that | 18 |
| the applicant:
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| (1) has remained a student in good standing;
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| (2) remains a resident of this State; and
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| (3) is in a financial situation that continues to | 22 |
| warrant assistance.
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| (c) All grants shall be applicable only to tuition and | 24 |
| necessary fee costs. The Commission shall determine the grant
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| amount for each student, which shall not exceed the smallest of
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| the following amounts:
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| (1) $4,968, or such lesser amount as
the Commission | 28 |
| finds to be available, during an academic year; or
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| (2) the amount which equals 2 semesters or 3 quarters | 30 |
| tuition
and other necessary fees required generally by the | 31 |
| institution of all
full-time undergraduate students; or
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| (3) such amount as the Commission finds to be | 33 |
| appropriate in view of
the applicant's financial | 34 |
| resources.
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| "Tuition and other necessary fees" as used in this Section |
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| include the
customary charge for instruction and use of | 2 |
| facilities in general, and the
additional fixed fees charged | 3 |
| for specified purposes, which are required
generally of | 4 |
| nongrant recipients for each academic period for which the | 5 |
| grant
applicant actually enrolls, but do not include fees | 6 |
| payable only once or
breakage fees and other contingent | 7 |
| deposits which are refundable in whole or in
part. The | 8 |
| Commission may prescribe, by rule not inconsistent with this
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| Section, detailed provisions concerning the computation of | 10 |
| tuition and other
necessary fees.
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| (d) No applicant, including those presently receiving | 12 |
| scholarship
assistance under this Act, is eligible for monetary | 13 |
| award program
consideration under this Act after receiving a | 14 |
| baccalaureate degree or
the equivalent of 135 semester credit | 15 |
| hours of award payments. However, a student is not ineligible | 16 |
| for monetary award program consideration under this subsection | 17 |
| (d) if both of the following apply: | 18 |
| (1) A State university that the student was enrolled at | 19 |
| required that the student complete remedial coursework. | 20 |
| (2) By subtracting the total number of semester credit | 21 |
| hours, not to exceed 30 semester credit hours, of required | 22 |
| remedial coursework that the student successfully | 23 |
| completed and received award payments for, the student has | 24 |
| received less than the equivalent of 135 semester credit | 25 |
| hours of award payments.
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| (e) The Commission, in determining the number of grants to | 27 |
| be offered,
shall take into consideration past experience with | 28 |
| the rate of grant funds
unclaimed by recipients. The Commission | 29 |
| shall notify applicants that grant
assistance is contingent | 30 |
| upon the availability of appropriated funds.
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| (f) The Commission may request appropriations for deposit | 32 |
| into the
Monetary Award Program Reserve Fund. Monies deposited | 33 |
| into the Monetary Award
Program Reserve Fund may be expended | 34 |
| exclusively for one purpose: to make
Monetary Award Program | 35 |
| grants to eligible students. Amounts on deposit in the
Monetary | 36 |
| Award Program Reserve Fund may not exceed 2% of the current |
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| annual
State appropriation for the Monetary Award Program.
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| The purpose of the Monetary Award Program Reserve Fund is | 3 |
| to enable the
Commission each year to assure as many students | 4 |
| as possible of their
eligibility for a Monetary Award Program | 5 |
| grant and to do so before commencement
of the academic year. | 6 |
| Moneys deposited in this Reserve Fund are intended to
enhance | 7 |
| the Commission's management of the Monetary Award Program, | 8 |
| minimizing
the necessity, magnitude, and frequency of | 9 |
| adjusting award amounts and ensuring
that the annual Monetary | 10 |
| Award Program appropriation can be fully utilized.
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| (g) The Commission shall determine the eligibility of and | 12 |
| make grants to
applicants enrolled at qualified for-profit | 13 |
| institutions in accordance with the
criteria set forth in this | 14 |
| Section. The eligibility of applicants enrolled at
such | 15 |
| for-profit institutions shall be limited as follows:
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| (1) Beginning with the academic year 1997, only to | 17 |
| eligible first-time
freshmen and
first-time transfer | 18 |
| students who have attained an associate degree.
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| (2) Beginning with the academic year 1998, only to | 20 |
| eligible freshmen
students,
transfer students who have | 21 |
| attained an associate degree, and students who
receive a | 22 |
| grant under paragraph (1) for the academic year 1997 and | 23 |
| whose grants
are being renewed for the academic year 1998.
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| (3) Beginning with the academic year 1999, to all | 25 |
| eligible students.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-45, eff. 7-1-01; 93-1032, eff. 9-2-04.)
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