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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2565
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 2565, AS AMENDED,
3 by inserting below the last line of Section 5 the following:
4 "Section 8. The University of Illinois Act is amended by
5 changing Section 7f as follows:
6 (110 ILCS 305/7f) (from Ch. 144, par. 28f)
7 Sec. 7f. Partial tuition waivers.
8 (a) As used in this Section, "Illinois college or
9 university" means any of the following: the University of
10 Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Chicago State
11 University, Eastern Illinois University, Governors State
12 University, Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois
13 University, Northern Illinois University, and Western
14 Illinois University.
15 (b) Each year the Board of Trustees of the University of
16 Illinois shall offer 50% tuition waivers for undergraduate
17 education at any campus under its governance or supervision
18 to the children of employees of an Illinois college or
19 university who have been employed by any one or by more than
20 one Illinois college or university for an aggregate period of
21 at least 7 years. To be eligible to receive a partial
22 tuition waiver, the child of an employee of an Illinois
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1 college or university (i) must be under the age of 25 at the
2 commencement of the academic year during which the partial
3 tuition waiver is to be effective, and (ii) must qualify for
4 admission to the University of Illinois under the same
5 admissions requirements, standards and policies which the
6 University of Illinois applies to applicants for admission
7 generally to its respective undergraduate colleges and
8 programs. For purposes of this Section, an employee of an
9 Illinois college or university shall be deemed to include all
10 persons employed by the Department of Natural Resources under
11 the authority of the Board of Natural Resources and
12 Conservation in the: (i) Waste Management and Research
13 Center, (ii) Illinois State Geological Survey, (iii) Illinois
14 Natural History Survey, or (iv) Illinois State Water Survey.
15 (c) Subject to the provisions and limitations of
16 subsection (b), an eligible applicant who has continued to
17 maintain satisfactory academic progress toward graduation may
18 have his or her partial tuition waiver renewed until the time
19 as he or she has expended 4 years of undergraduate partial
20 tuition waiver benefits under this Section.
21 (d) No partial tuition waiver offered or allocated to
22 any eligible applicant in accordance with the provisions of
23 this Section shall be charged against any tuition waiver
24 limitation established by the Illinois Board of Higher
25 Education.
26 (e) The Board of Trustees shall prescribe rules and
27 regulations as are necessary to implement and administer the
28 provisions of this Section.
29 (Source: P.A. 90-282, eff. 1-1-98.)".