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90_HB3749
110 ILCS 947/35
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act.
Provides that if a student who receives a MAP award as a
full-time undergraduate student has not received the maximum
grant for the academic year in which the grant is awarded
because of a change in his or her full-time enrollment status
before the summer term of that academic year begins, the
Commission shall provide summer term assistance to the
student if the student applies and remains MAP eligible.
Provides that the amount of summer term assistance provided
may not cause the aggregate amount of the grant received by
the student for the academic year to exceed the maximum MAP
award available for full-time enrollment for that academic
year. Effective July 1, 1998.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Higher Education Student Assistance
2 Act by changing Section 35.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Higher Education Student Assistance Act
6 is amended by changing Section 35 as follows:
7 (110 ILCS 947/35)
8 Sec. 35. Monetary award program.
9 (a) The Commission shall, each year, receive and
10 consider applications for grant assistance under this
11 Section. Subject to a separate appropriation for such
12 purposes, an applicant is eligible for a grant under this
13 Section when the Commission finds that the applicant:
14 (1) is a resident of this State and a citizen or
15 permanent resident of the United States; and
16 (2) in the absence of grant assistance, will be
17 deterred by financial considerations from completing an
18 educational program at the qualified institution of his
19 or her choice.
20 (b) The Commission shall award renewals only upon the
21 student's application and upon the Commission's finding that
22 the applicant:
23 (1) has remained a student in good standing;
24 (2) remains a resident of this State; and
25 (3) is in a financial situation that continues to
26 warrant assistance.
27 (c) All grants shall be applicable only to tuition and
28 necessary fee costs for 2 semesters or 3 quarters in an
29 academic year. Requests for summer term assistance will be
30 made separately and shall be considered on an individual
31 basis according to Commission policy. However, if a student
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1 who is awarded a grant under this Section as a full-time
2 undergraduate student has not received the maximum award for
3 the academic year for which the grant is awarded because of a
4 change in his or her full-time enrollment status before the
5 summer term of that academic year begins, the Commission,
6 upon application of the student, shall provide summer term
7 assistance to that student under this Section (i) if the
8 student has continued to remain eligible for monetary award
9 program consideration, and (ii) if the amount of assistance
10 provided by the Commission to the student during that summer
11 term does not cause the aggregate amount of the student's
12 grant under this Section for the academic year in which the
13 grant is awarded to exceed the maximum grant amount available
14 under this Section for full-time undergraduate enrollment for
15 that academic year. The Commission shall determine the
16 grant amount for each full-time and part-time student, which
17 shall be the smallest of the following amounts:
18 (1) $4,120 for 2 semesters or 3 quarters of
19 full-time undergraduate enrollment or $2,060 for 2
20 semesters or 3 quarters of part-time undergraduate
21 enrollment, or such lesser amount as the Commission finds
22 to be available; or
23 (2) the amount which equals the 2 semesters or 3
24 quarters tuition and other necessary fees required
25 generally by the institution of all full-time
26 undergraduate students, or in the case of part-time
27 students an amount of tuition and fees for 2 semesters or
28 3 quarters which shall not exceed one-half the amount of
29 tuition and necessary fees generally charged to full-time
30 undergraduate students by the institution; or
31 (3) such amount as the Commission finds to be
32 appropriate in view of the applicant's financial
33 resources.
34 "Tuition and other necessary fees" as used in this Section
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1 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
9 Section, detailed provisions concerning the computation of
10 tuition and other necessary fees.
11 (d) No applicant, including those presently receiving
12 scholarship assistance under this Act, is eligible for
13 monetary award program consideration under this Act after
14 receiving a baccalaureate degree or the equivalent of 10
15 semesters or 15 quarters of award payments. The Commission
16 shall determine when award payments for part-time enrollment
17 or interim or summer terms shall be counted as a partial
18 semester or quarter of payment.
19 (e) The Commission, in determining the number of grants
20 to be offered, shall take into consideration past experience
21 with the rate of grant funds unclaimed by recipients. The
22 Commission shall notify applicants that grant assistance is
23 contingent upon the availability of appropriated funds.
24 (f) The Commission may request appropriations for
25 deposit into the Monetary Award Program Reserve Fund. Monies
26 deposited into the Monetary Award Program Reserve Fund may be
27 expended exclusively for one purpose: to make Monetary Award
28 Program grants to eligible students. Amounts on deposit in
29 the Monetary Award Program Reserve Fund may not exceed 2% of
30 the current annual State appropriation for the Monetary Award
31 Program.
32 The purpose of the Monetary Award Program Reserve Fund is
33 to enable the Commission each year to assure as many students
34 as possible of their eligibility for a Monetary Award Program
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1 grant and to do so before commencement of the academic year.
2 Moneys deposited in this Reserve Fund are intended to enhance
3 the Commission's management of the Monetary Award Program,
4 minimizing the necessity, magnitude, and frequency of
5 adjusting award amounts and ensuring that the annual Monetary
6 Award Program appropriation can be fully utilized.
7 (g) The Commission shall determine the eligibility of
8 and make grants to applicants enrolled at qualified
9 for-profit institutions in accordance with the criteria set
10 forth in this Section. The eligibility of applicants
11 enrolled at such for-profit institutions shall be limited as
12 follows:
13 (1) Beginning with the academic year 1997, only to
14 eligible first-time freshmen and first-time transfer
15 students who have attained an associate degree.
16 (2) Beginning with the academic year 1998, only to
17 eligible freshmen students, transfer students who have
18 attained an associate degree, and students who receive a
19 grant under paragraph (1) for the academic year 1997 and
20 whose grants are being renewed for the academic year
21 1998.
22 (3) Beginning with the academic year 1999, to all
23 eligible students.
24 (Source: P.A. 89-163, eff. 7-19-95; 89-330, eff. 8-17-95;
25 89-512, eff. 7-11-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-122, eff.
26 7-17-97.)
27 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July
28 1, 1998.