Public Act 099-0611
 
HB5561 EnrolledLRB099 20491 MLM 45012 b

    AN ACT concerning education.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections
10-20.58 and 34-18.50 as follows:
 
    (105 ILCS 5/10-20.58 new)
    Sec. 10-20.58. Accelerate College pilot program. School
districts may enter into Accelerate College educational
partnership agreements as authorized under Section 3-42.4 of
the Public Community College Act.
 
    (105 ILCS 5/34-18.50 new)
    Sec. 34-18.50. Accelerate College pilot program. The
district may enter into an Accelerate College educational
partnership agreement as authorized under Section 3-42.4 of the
Public Community College Act.
 
    Section 10. The Public Community College Act is amended by
adding Section 3-42.4 as follows:
 
    (110 ILCS 805/3-42.4 new)
    Sec. 3-42.4. Accelerate College pilot program.
    (a) As used in this Section, "district board" means a
community college district board of trustees.
    (b) A district board may elect to enter into an Accelerate
College educational partnership agreement with any school
district wholly contained within the community college
district's jurisdiction. If the district board and a school
district enter into an Accelerate College educational
partnership agreement, the district board must offer a group of
high school students the right to take community college
courses without paying tuition for those courses.
    (c) In the first full academic year after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, no
school district may enroll more than 45 students in college
courses under an Accelerate College educational partnership
agreement, and the students enrolled shall be limited to one
year of community college credits.
    In the second full academic year after the effective date
of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, no school
district may enroll more than 90 students in college courses
under an Accelerate College educational partnership agreement.
No more than 45 of those students may be in the final year
before school graduation and no more than 45 of those students
may be in the second to last year before high school graduation
in this academic year.
    In the third full academic year and more after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General
Assembly, no school district may enroll more than 90 students
in college courses under an Accelerate College educational
partnership agreement.
    (d) Subject to the terms of its Accelerate College
educational partnership agreement, the community college may
limit the courses offered to high school students and may
charge non-tuition fees to the students. Allowable non-tuition
fees include actual operating costs of the courses taken by
high school students and any student activities in which the
high school student may participate at the community college.
    (e) Any coursework completed by high school students in a
community college under this Section shall be transferrable to
all public universities in this State on the same basis as
coursework completed by community college students who have
previously earned high school diplomas.
    (f) The State Board must study agreements established under
this Section and, by January 1 each year after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly,
deliver a report based on the State Board's findings to both
the General Assembly and the Governor.
    The annual report must include, but is not limited to, the
ongoing success or lack thereof in growing the program from the
point of view of Illinois educational institutions, ongoing
success or lack thereof of the students who participate in the
program, and the advantage or lack thereof of authorizing the
expansion of the program from one year to 2 years of
college-level coursework for select groups of students.
    (g) This Section is repealed 36 months after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 7/22/2016