Full Text of HB3648 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning 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 Higher | 5 | | Education in Prison Act. | 6 | | Section 5. Higher education in prison programs. | 7 | | (a) In this Section, "higher education" means | 8 | | post-secondary academic education at the undergraduate or | 9 | | graduate level in a community college or university setting. | 10 | | (b) On or before September 1 of the year following the | 11 | | effective date of this Act and each subsequent September 1, | 12 | | the Department of Corrections shall release a report, to be | 13 | | published on the Department of Corrections's Internet website, | 14 | | detailing the following information pertaining to higher | 15 | | education within Department institutions and facilities: | 16 | | (1) the number of unique individuals involved in adult | 17 | | basic education, high school equivalency, and credit and | 18 | | non-credit bearing higher education programs over the | 19 | | course of the fiscal year; | 20 | | (2) the racial, ethnic, age, and gender breakdown of | 21 | | committed persons participating in higher education | 22 | | programs; | 23 | | (3) the length of sentence and length of remaining |
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| 1 | | sentence of persons enrolled in higher education programs; | 2 | | (4) the number of committed persons who are on waiting | 3 | | lists for participation in all educational programs, | 4 | | including adult basic education, high school equivalency, | 5 | | and higher education, and the average length of time spent | 6 | | on each waiting list, including a breakdown by length of | 7 | | remaining sentence; | 8 | | (5) the total amount of earned program sentence credit | 9 | | awarded to committed persons for participating in higher | 10 | | education programs and the percentage of committed persons | 11 | | participating in higher education programs that are | 12 | | awarded earned program sentence credit; | 13 | | (6) the number, category, and ultimate resolution of | 14 | | grievances related to higher education programs; | 15 | | (7) a financial statement that includes annual and | 16 | | monthly expenditures of Department of Corrections | 17 | | institutions and facilities on adult basic education, high | 18 | | school equivalency, and higher education programs; and | 19 | | (8) an explanation of how participation in adult basic | 20 | | education, high school equivalency, and higher education | 21 | | programs is factored into a committed persons' risk | 22 | | assessment score. | 23 | | Personal, identifiable information shall be redacted to | 24 | | protect privacy. | 25 | | The report must be filed with the Governor and General | 26 | | Assembly. |
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| 1 | | (c) The data provided in the report under subsection (b) | 2 | | shall include an aggregate chart at the Department level and | 3 | | individual reports by each correctional institution or | 4 | | facility of the Department of Corrections. | 5 | | (d) To facilitate the collection of information on higher | 6 | | education in prison (HEP) programs, each 4-year public or | 7 | | private institution of higher education with HEP degree or | 8 | | certificate programs shall provide the Board of Higher | 9 | | Education with student-level information as part of its | 10 | | regular agency data-collection processes. Each public | 11 | | community college with HEP degree or certificate programs | 12 | | shall provide the Illinois Community College Board with | 13 | | student-level information as part of its regular agency | 14 | | data-collection processes. Upon request, the student-level | 15 | | information shall include the correctional facility in which | 16 | | the HEP program is being offered. The information provided to | 17 | | the Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community | 18 | | College Board shall include HEP enrollment and completion data | 19 | | disaggregated by variables, including but not limited to, | 20 | | race, ethnicity, gender, age, and type of degree or | 21 | | certificate. The Board of Higher Education and the Illinois | 22 | | Community College Board shall annually make HEP program data | 23 | | publicly available on their Internet websites.
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