Public Act 100-0086
 
SB0930 EnrolledLRB100 08847 MLM 18989 b


  
    AN ACT concerning education.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Eastern Illinois University Law is amended  
by changing Section 10-92 as follows:
 
    (110 ILCS 665/10-92)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2022)
    Sec. 10-92. Tuition affordability discount program.
    (a)  The General Assembly makes all of the following 
findings:
        (1)  Both access and affordability are important points 
    in the Illinois Public Agenda for College and Career 
    Success.
        (2)  This State is in the top quartile with respect to 
    the percentage of family income needed to pay for college.
        (3)  Research suggests that as loan amounts increase, 
    versus grants-in-aid, the probability of college 
    attendance decreases.
        (4)  There is further research indicating socioeconomic 
    status may affect the willingness of students to use loans 
    to attend college.
        (5)  Strategic use of tuition discounting will decrease 
    the amount of loans that students must use to pay for 
    tuition.
        (6)  A modest, individually tailored tuition discount 
    can make the difference in choosing to attend college and 
    would enhance college access for low (up to 150% of the 
    federal poverty level) and middle income (151% to 300% of 
    the federal poverty level) families.
        (7)  Even if the federally calculated financial need for 
    college attendance is met, the federally determined 
    Expected Family Contribution can still be a daunting 
    amount.
        (8)  This State is the second largest exporter of 
    students in the country.
        (9)  Illinois students need to be kept in this State. 
    State universities in other states have adopted pricing and 
    incentives that make college expenses for residents of this 
    State less than in this State.
        (10)  A mechanism is needed to stop the outflow of 
    Illinois students to institutions in other states, 
    assisting in State efforts to maintain and educate a highly 
    trained workforce.
        (11) By being competitive on costs of attendance, this 
    State can bring out-of-state students to this State.
        (12)  The program established under this Section will 
    allow Eastern Illinois University to compete for highly 
    qualified students who may reside in other states by 
    mitigating the effect of cost differences.
        (13)  Modest tuition discounts, individually targeted 
    and tailored, result in enhanced revenue for university 
    programs.
        (14)  By increasing Eastern Illinois University's 
    capacity to strategically use tuition discounting, the 
    University will be capable of creating enhanced tuition 
    revenue by increasing enrollment yields. 
        (15)  The Board of Higher Education's current 
    institutional tuition waiver limitation is 3% of total 
    available undergraduate tuition revenue.
    (b)  The Board shall establish a program to increase the 
Board of Higher Education's institutional tuition waiver 
limitation for the university over a 4-year period to increase 
access to college and make college more affordable for 
undergraduate students.  Under the program, the institutional 
tuition waiver limitation shall be increased by 2 percentage 
points in the 2012-2013 academic year, 2 percentage points in 
the 2013-2014 academic year, 2 percentage points in the 
2014-2015 academic year, and one percentage point in the 
2015-2016 academic year, resulting in an institutional tuition 
waiver limitation of 10% in the fourth year of the program and 
thereafter.
    (c)  The program shall require that students who receive a 
tuition discount under the program be accepted to the 
university through normal admissions standards and processes. 
Individual tuition discounts granted under the program must not 
exceed $2,500 per academic year.  The program shall provide a 
maximum of one discount per academic year for a maximum of 4 
years to each student in the program who maintains satisfactory 
academic progress. The program shall be terminated after the 
2022-2023 2018-2019 academic year, with no new students 
receiving discounts.  However, notwithstanding the Board of 
Higher Education's institutional tuition waiver limitation, 
existing students receiving discounts under the program are 
eligible to maintain those discounts, with satisfactory 
academic progress, under the 4-year limitation, after the 
2022-2023 2018-2019 academic year due to maintenance of effort 
within their 4-year window. Sunset dates for discounted support 
shall be based upon the first academic year in which a student 
receives a discount.
    (d) Every 2 years, the Board shall report to the Board of 
Higher Education on the program's impact on tuition revenue, 
enrollment goals, and increasing access and affordability on 
such dates as the Board of Higher Education shall determine.
    (e)  The Board of Higher Education may adopt any rules that 
are necessary to implement this Section.
    (f)  This Section is repealed on July 1, 2026 2022. 

(Source: P.A. 97-290, eff. 8-10-11; 98-1100, eff. 1-1-15.)
 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law. 
  


Effective Date:  8/11/2017