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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB1378 Introduced 1/29/2025, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 110 ILCS 1010/3 | from Ch. 144, par. 233 |
| Amends the Academic Degree Act. With respect to a public university, provides that only the board of trustees of the university may award an honorary degree, and the university's faculty shall have no role in the award of the honorary degree. |
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| | SB1378 | | LRB104 06343 LNS 16379 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Academic Degree Act is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 3 as follows:
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| 6 | | (110 ILCS 1010/3) (from Ch. 144, par. 233) |
| 7 | | Sec. 3. Award of degrees.) A degree or any object in |
| 8 | | evidence thereof may be awarded only by a degree granting |
| 9 | | institution. Anything in this Act to the contrary |
| 10 | | notwithstanding, a degree granting institution may award |
| 11 | | honorary degrees; provided that any such degree be clearly |
| 12 | | represented to be honorary and that any other tangible object |
| 13 | | issued or purporting to be in evidence thereof shall state on |
| 14 | | its face expressly, clearly and conspicuously that the degree |
| 15 | | is honorary. With respect to a public university, only the |
| 16 | | board of trustees of the university may award an honorary |
| 17 | | degree, and the university's faculty shall have no role in the |
| 18 | | award of the honorary degree. |
| 19 | | (Source: P.A. 79-803.) |