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Full Text of HB0230  100th General Assembly

HB0230ham003 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. André Thapedi

Filed: 5/16/2017

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 230

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 230, AS AMENDED, by
3replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
4following:
 
5    "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
6Public University Uniform Admission Act.
 
7    Section 5. Definition of institution. In this Act,
8"institution" means a public university in this State.
 
9    Section 10. Uniform admission system. An institution shall
10admit first-time freshman students for each semester under the
11provisions of this Act.
 
12    Section 15. Automatic admission.
13    (a) Subject to Section 20 of this Act, each institution
14shall admit an applicant for admission to the institution as an

 

 

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1undergraduate student if the applicant graduated with a grade
2point average in the top 10% or was certified to be in the top
310% of the student's high school graduating class in one of the
42 school years preceding the academic year for which the
5applicant is applying for admission and:
6        (1) the applicant graduated from a public or private
7    high school in this State accredited by a generally
8    recognized accrediting organization or from a high school
9    operated by the United States Department of Defense;
10        (2) the applicant:
11            (A) successfully completed the minimum college
12        preparatory curriculum requirements established by law
13        for admission to the institution; and
14            (B) satisfied the ACT college admission assessment
15        or the SAT college admission assessment composite
16        score and subscores required for admission to the
17        institution to which the applicant applied as well as
18        any composite scores or subscores for colleges within
19        that institution.
20        (3) if the applicant graduated from a high school
21    operated by the United States Department of Defense, the
22    applicant is a State resident or is entitled to pay tuition
23    fees at the rate provided for State residents for the term
24    or semester to which admitted.
25    (b) An applicant who does not satisfy the curriculum
26requirements prescribed by item (A) of subdivision (2) of

 

 

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1subsection (a) of this Section is considered to have satisfied
2those requirements if the student completed the portion of the
3college preparatory curriculum that was available to the
4student but was unable to complete the remainder of the
5curriculum solely because courses necessary to complete the
6remainder were unavailable to the student at the appropriate
7times in the student's high school career as a result of course
8scheduling, lack of enrollment capacity, or another cause not
9within the student's control.
10    (c) An applicant who graduates in a graduating class of a
11school, whether public or non-public, that has so few students
12that class rank does not make a reliable contribution toward
13assessing the student's college readiness is considered to have
14satisfied the requirements of subsection (a) of this Section if
15the student has a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a
164-point scale and has met the requirements of item (A) or (B)
17of subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this Section.
 
18    Section 20. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
19admission.
20    (a) The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is not
21required to offer admission to applicants who qualify for
22automatic admission under Section 15 of this Act in excess of
23the number required to fill 75% of the university's enrollment
24capacity designated for first-time resident undergraduate
25students in an academic year. If the number of applicants who

 

 

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1qualify for automatic admission to the University of Illinois
2at Urbana-Champaign under Section 15 of this Act for an
3academic year exceeds 75% of the university's enrollment
4capacity designated for first-time resident undergraduate
5students for that academic year, the university may elect to
6offer admission to those applicants as provided by this
7subsection (a) and not as otherwise required by Section 15 of
8this Act. If the university elects to offer admission under
9this subsection (a), the university shall offer admission to
10those applicants by percentile rank according to high school
11graduating class standing based on grade point average,
12beginning with the top percentile rank, until the applicants
13qualified under Section 15 of this Act have been offered
14admission in the number estimated in good faith by the
15university as sufficient to fill 75% of the university's
16enrollment capacity designated for first-time resident
17undergraduate students, except that the university must offer
18admission to all applicants with the same percentile rank.
19After the applicants qualified for automatic admission under
20Section 15 of this Act have been offered admission under this
21subsection (a) in the number estimated in good faith as
22sufficient to fill 75% of the designated enrollment capacity
23described by this subsection (a), the university shall consider
24any remaining applicants qualified for automatic admission
25under Section 15 of this Act in the same manner as other
26applicants for admission as first-time undergraduate students.

 

 

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1    (b) If the number of applicants who apply to the University
2of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during the current academic
3year for admission in the next academic year and who qualify
4for automatic admission to an institution under Section 15 of
5this Act exceeds 75% of the university's enrollment capacity
6designated for first-time resident undergraduate students for
7that next academic year and the university plans to offer
8admission under subsection (a) of this Section during the next
9academic year, the university shall, in the manner prescribed
10by the Board of Higher Education and not later than September
1115 of the current academic year, provide to each school
12district, for dissemination of the information to high school
13junior-level students and their parents, notice of which
14percentile ranks of high school senior-level students who
15qualify for automatic admission under Section 15 of this Act
16are anticipated by the university to be offered admission under
17subsection (a) of this Section during the next academic year.
18    (c) If the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
19elects to offer admission to first-time resident undergraduate
20students under subsection (a) of this Section for an academic
21year, the university must not consider an applicant's legacy
22status as a factor in the university's decisions relating to
23admissions for that academic year.
24    (d) If the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
25offers admission to first-time resident undergraduate students
26under subsection (a) of this Section, the university shall

 

 

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1require that a student admitted under subsection (a) of this
2Section complete a designated portion of not less than 6
3semester credit hours of the student's coursework during
4evening hours or other low-demand hours as necessary to ensure
5the efficient use of the university's available classrooms.
6    (e) If the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
7elects to offer admission under subsection (a) of this Section
8for an academic year, the university may not offer admission to
9first-time undergraduate students who are not residents of this
10State for that academic year in excess of the number required
11to fill 10% of the university's enrollment capacity designated
12for first-time undergraduate students for that academic year.
13    (f) Not later than December 31 of each academic year in
14which the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers
15admission under subsection (a) of this Section, the university
16shall deliver a written report to the Governor and the General
17Assembly regarding the university's progress in each of the
18following matters:
19        (1) increasing geographic diversity of the entering
20    freshman class;
21        (2) counseling and outreach efforts aimed at students
22    qualified for automatic admission under this Act;
23        (3) recruiting State residents who graduate from other
24    institutions of higher education to the university's
25    graduate and professional degree programs;
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1    underrepresented demographic segments of this State's
2    population; and
3        (5) assessing and improving the university's
4    recruitment efforts.
5    (g) The Board of Higher Education shall publish an annual
6report on the impact of subsection (a) of this Section on this
7State's goal of closing college access and achievement gaps
8with respect to students of the University of Illinois at
9Urbana-Champaign, disaggregated by race, ethnicity,
10socioeconomic status, and geographic region and by whether the
11high school from which the student graduated was a small
12school, as designated by the State Superintendent of Education,
13or a public high school that is ranked among the lowest 20% of
14public high schools according to the percentage of each high
15school's graduates who enroll in an institution in one of the 2
16academic years following the year of the applicant's high
17school graduation. On request, the university shall provide the
18Board with any information the Board considers necessary for
19the completion of the report required by this subsection (g).
 
20    Section 25. Admission requirements.
21     (a) To qualify for admission under this Act, an applicant
22must:
23        (1) submit an application before the expiration of any
24    application filing deadline established by the
25    institution; and

 

 

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1        (2) provide a high school transcript or diploma that
2    satisfies the requirements of subsection (b) of this
3    Section.
4    (b) For purposes of subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of
5this Section, a student's official transcript or diploma must,
6not later than the end of the student's junior year, indicate:
7        (1) whether the student has satisfied or is on schedule
8    to satisfy the requirements of item (A) of subdivision (2)
9    of subsection (a) of Section 15 of this Act; or
10        (2) if subsection (b) of Section 15 of this Act applies
11    to the student, whether the student has completed the
12    portion of the college preparatory curriculum that was
13    available to the student.
 
14    Section 27. Graduates of nonaccredited private schools.
15    (a) As used in this Section, "nonaccredited secondary
16education" means a course of study at the secondary school
17level in a nonaccredited private school setting.
18    (b) Because the State of Illinois considers successful
19completion of a nonaccredited secondary education to be
20equivalent to graduation from a public high school, an
21institution, in complying with this Act and for all other
22purposes, must treat an applicant for admission to the
23institution as an undergraduate student who presents evidence
24that he or she has successfully completed a nonaccredited
25secondary education according to the same general standards,

 

 

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1including specific standardized testing score requirements, as
2other applicants for undergraduate admission who have
3graduated from a public high school.
4    (c) An institution may not require an applicant for
5admission to the institution as an undergraduate student who
6presents evidence that he or she has successfully completed a
7nonaccredited secondary education to:
8        (1) obtain or submit evidence that the person has
9    obtained a general educational development certificate,
10    certificate of high school equivalency, or other
11    credentials equivalent to a public high school degree; ?or
12        (2) take an examination or comply with any other
13    application or admission requirement not generally
14    applicable to other applicants for undergraduate admission
15    to the institution.
16    (d) In complying with this Act or otherwise, when an
17institution in its undergraduate admission review process
18sorts or is required to sort applicants by high school
19graduating class rank, the institution shall place any
20applicant who presents evidence that the applicant has
21successfully completed a nonaccredited secondary education
22that does not include a high school graduating class ranking at
23the average high school graduating class rank of undergraduate
24applicants to the institution who have equivalent standardized
25testing scores as the applicant.
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1respect to admission into the institution or any program within
2the institution, with respect to scholarship programs, and with
3respect to other terms and conditions, and in complying with
4this Act, an institution may not treat an applicant who has
5successfully completed a nonaccredited secondary education
6that does not include a high school graduating class ranking
7differently than an applicant who graduated from an accredited
8public school.
 
9    Section 30. Admission for child of fallen police officer,
10firefighter, or Department of Corrections employee. Each
11institution shall admit an applicant for admission to the
12institution as an undergraduate student if the applicant:
13        (1) is the child of a police officer or firefighter
14    employed by or in the voluntary service of this State or
15    any local public entity in this State who was killed or
16    sustained a fatal injury in the line of duty or is the
17    child of an employee of the Department of Corrections who
18    was assigned to a security position with the Department
19    with responsibility for inmates of a correctional
20    institution under the jurisdiction of the Department and
21    who was killed or sustained a fatal injury in the line of
22    duty;
23        (2) meets the minimum requirements, if any,
24    established for purposes of this Section by the governing
25    board of the institution for high school or prior

 

 

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1    college-level grade point average and performance on
2    standardized tests; and
3        (3) satisfies the ACT college admission assessment or
4    the SAT college admission assessment composite score and
5    subscores required for admission to the institution to
6    which the applicant applied as well as any composite scores
7    or subscores for colleges within that institution.
 
8    Section 35. Additional preparation for college. After
9admitting an applicant under this Act, the institution shall
10review the applicant's record and any other factor the
11institution considers appropriate to determine whether the
12applicant may require additional preparation for college-level
13work or would benefit from inclusion in a retention program.
14The institution may require a student so identified to enroll
15during the summer immediately after the student is admitted
16under this Act to participate in appropriate enrichment courses
17and orientation programs. This Act does not prohibit a student
18who is not determined to need additional preparation for
19college-level work from enrolling, if the student chooses,
20during the summer immediately after the student is admitted
21under this Act.
 
22    Section 40. Student outreach program. The Illinois Student
23Assistance Commission, by rule, shall develop and implement a
24program to increase and enhance the efforts of institutions in

 

 

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1conducting outreach to academically high-performing high
2school seniors in this State who are likely to be eligible for
3automatic admission under Section 15 of this Act to provide to
4those students information and counseling regarding the
5operation of this Act and other opportunities, including
6financial assistance, available to those students for success
7at institutions. Under the program, the Commission, after
8gathering information and recommendations from available
9sources and examining current outreach practices by
10institutions of higher education in this State and in other
11states, shall prescribe best practice guidelines and standards
12to be used by institutions in conducting the student outreach
13described by this Section.
 
14    Section 45. Fall or summer enrollment. An institution that
15admits, under this Act, an applicant qualified for automatic
16admission under Section 15 of this Act may admit the applicant
17for either the fall semester of the academic year for which the
18applicant applies or for the summer session preceding that fall
19semester, as determined by the institution.
 
20    Section 50. Admissions denial; reference to Act. If an
21institution denies admission to an applicant for an academic
22year, then, in any letter or other communication the
23institution provides to the applicant notifying the applicant
24of that denial, the institution may not reference the

 

 

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1provisions of this Act, including using a description of a
2provision of this Act such as "the top 10% automatic admissions
3law", as a reason the institution is unable to offer admission
4to the applicant, unless the number of applicants for admission
5to the institution for that academic year who qualify for
6automatic admission under Section 15 of this Act is sufficient
7to fill 100% of the institution's enrollment capacity
8designated for first-time resident undergraduate students.
 
9    Section 90. Rules. The Board of Higher Education and the
10Illinois Student Assistance Commission may adopt any rules
11necessary to implement this Act.".