Full Text of HB5122 100th General Assembly
HB5122 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2017 and 2018 HB5122 Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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20 ILCS 505/8 | from Ch. 23, par. 5008 |
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Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Makes post-secondary education tuition and fee waivers available to youth for whom the Department of Children and Family Services has court-ordered legal responsibility, youth who aged out of care at age 18 or older, or youth formerly under care who have been adopted and were the subject of an adoption assistance agreement or who have been placed in private guardianship and were the subject of a subsidized guardianship agreement. Requires applicants to have earned a high school diploma from an
accredited institution or a high school equivalency
certificate or have met the State criteria for high
school graduation before the start of the school year for which they are applying for the waivers. Limits the tuition and fee waivers to persons under the age of 26 and provides that waivers shall be available to a student for at least the first 5 years the student is enrolled in a
community college, university, or college maintained by the
State. Provides that the age requirement and 5-year cap on tuition and fee waivers shall be waived and eligibility extended for applicants or students who were unable to enroll in a qualifying post-secondary school or complete an academic term because the student: (i) was called into
active duty with the United States Armed Forces; (ii) was
deployed for service in the United States Public Health Service
Commissioned Corps; or (iii) volunteered in the Peace Corps or
the AmeriCorps. Permits the Department to provide the student with a stipend to cover maintenance and school
expenses during the academic years to
supplement the student's earnings. Requires the Department to develop outreach programs to ensure qualifying youths are aware of the availability of the tuition and fee waivers.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended | 5 | | by changing Section 8 as follows:
| 6 | | (20 ILCS 505/8) (from Ch. 23, par. 5008)
| 7 | | Sec. 8. Scholarships and fee waivers ; tuition waiver . | 8 | | (a) Each year the Department shall select a minimum of 53 | 9 | | students (at least 4 of whom shall be children of veterans) to | 10 | | receive scholarships and fee waivers which will enable them to | 11 | | attend and complete their post-secondary education at a | 12 | | community college, university, or college. Youth shall be | 13 | | selected from among the youth for whom the Department has | 14 | | court-ordered legal responsibility, youth who aged out of care | 15 | | at age 18 or older, or youth formerly under care
who have been | 16 | | adopted or who have been placed in private guardianship. | 17 | | Recipients must have earned a high school diploma from an | 18 | | accredited institution or a high school equivalency | 19 | | certificate or diploma or have met the State criteria for high | 20 | | school graduation before the start of the school year for which | 21 | | they are applying for the scholarship and waiver. Scholarships | 22 | | and fee waivers shall be available to students for at least 5 | 23 | | years, provided they are continuing to work toward graduation. |
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| 1 | | Unused scholarship dollars and fee waivers shall be reallocated | 2 | | to new recipients. No later than January 1, 2015, the | 3 | | Department shall promulgate rules identifying the criteria for | 4 | | "continuing to work toward graduation" and for reallocating | 5 | | unused scholarships and fee waivers. Selection shall be made on | 6 | | the
basis of several factors, including, but not limited to, | 7 | | scholastic record, aptitude, and general interest in higher
| 8 | | education. The selection committee shall include at least 2 | 9 | | individuals formerly under the care of the Department who have | 10 | | completed their post-secondary education. In accordance with | 11 | | this Act, tuition scholarships and fee waivers
shall be | 12 | | available to such students at any university or college | 13 | | maintained by
the State of Illinois. The Department shall | 14 | | provide maintenance and school
expenses, except tuition and | 15 | | fees, during the academic years to supplement
the students' | 16 | | earnings or other resources so long as they consistently
| 17 | | maintain scholastic records which are acceptable to their | 18 | | schools and to
the Department. Students may attend other | 19 | | colleges and universities, if
scholarships are awarded them, | 20 | | and receive the same benefits for maintenance
and other | 21 | | expenses as those students attending any Illinois State | 22 | | community
college, university, or college under this Section. | 23 | | Beginning with recipients receiving scholarships and waivers | 24 | | in August 2014, the Department shall collect data and report | 25 | | annually to the General Assembly on measures of success, | 26 | | including (i) the number of youth applying for and receiving |
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| 1 | | scholarships or waivers , (ii) the percentage of scholarship or | 2 | | waiver recipients who complete their college or university | 3 | | degree within 5 years, (iii) the average length of time it | 4 | | takes for scholarship or waiver recipients to complete their | 5 | | college or university degree, (iv) the reasons that scholarship | 6 | | or waiver recipients are discharged or fail to complete their | 7 | | college or university degree, (v) when available, youths' | 8 | | outcomes 5 years and 10 years after being awarded the | 9 | | scholarships or waivers , and (vi) budget allocations for | 10 | | maintenance and school expenses incurred by the Department.
| 11 | | (b) Youth who are not selected to receive a scholarship or | 12 | | fee waiver under subsection (a) shall receive a waiver of all | 13 | | tuition and fees to attend and complete their post-secondary | 14 | | education at any community college, university, or college | 15 | | maintained by the State of Illinois if they are youth for whom | 16 | | the Department has court-ordered legal responsibility, youth | 17 | | who aged out of care at age 18 or older, or youth formerly | 18 | | under care who have been adopted and were the subject of an | 19 | | adoption assistance agreement or who have been placed in | 20 | | private guardianship and were the subject of a subsidized | 21 | | guardianship agreement. | 22 | | Applicants for the tuition and fee waivers provided under | 23 | | this subsection must have earned a high school diploma from an | 24 | | accredited institution or a high school equivalency | 25 | | certificate or have met the State criteria for high school | 26 | | graduation before the start of the school year for which they |
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| 1 | | are applying for the waivers. Applicants must enroll in a | 2 | | qualifying post-secondary education before they reach the age | 3 | | of 26. | 4 | | Tuition and fee waivers shall be available to a student for | 5 | | at least the first 5 years the student is enrolled in a | 6 | | community college, university, or college maintained by the | 7 | | State of Illinois so long as the student makes satisfactory | 8 | | progress toward completing his or her degree. The age | 9 | | requirement and 5-year cap on tuition and fee waivers under | 10 | | this subsection shall be waived and eligibility for tuition and | 11 | | fee waivers shall be extended for any applicant or student who | 12 | | the Department determines was unable to enroll in a qualifying | 13 | | post-secondary school or complete an academic term because the | 14 | | applicant or student: (i) was called into active duty with the | 15 | | United States Armed Forces; (ii) was deployed for service in | 16 | | the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; or | 17 | | (iii) volunteered in the Peace Corps or the AmeriCorps. The | 18 | | Department shall extend eligibility for a qualifying applicant | 19 | | or student by the total number of months or years during which | 20 | | the applicant or student served on active duty with the United | 21 | | States Armed Forces, was deployed for service in the United | 22 | | States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, or | 23 | | volunteered in the Peace Corps or the AmeriCorps. The number of | 24 | | months an applicant or student served on active duty with the | 25 | | United States Armed Forces shall be rounded up to the next | 26 | | higher year to determine the maximum length of time to extend |
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| 1 | | eligibility for the applicant or student. | 2 | | The Department may provide the student with a stipend to | 3 | | cover maintenance and school expenses, except tuition and fees, | 4 | | during the academic years to supplement the student's earnings | 5 | | or other resources so long as the student consistently | 6 | | maintains scholastic records which are acceptable to the | 7 | | student's school and to the Department. | 8 | | The Department shall develop outreach programs to ensure | 9 | | that youths who qualify for the tuition and fee waivers under | 10 | | this subsection who are high school students in grades 9 | 11 | | through 12 or who are enrolled in a high school equivalency | 12 | | testing program are aware of the availability of the tuition | 13 | | and fee waivers. | 14 | | (Source: P.A. 98-718, eff. 1-1-15; 98-805, eff. 1-1-15; 99-78, | 15 | | eff. 7-20-15.)
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