HB2214ham001 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Fred Crespo

Filed: 4/19/2007

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2214

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2214 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section 30-9 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/30-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-9)

Sec. 30-9. General Assembly scholarship; conditions of admission; award by competitive examination.

Each member of the General Assembly may nominate annually 2 persons of school age and otherwise eligible, from his or her district; each shall receive a certificate of scholarship in any State supported university designated by the member. Any member of the General Assembly in making nominations under this Section may designate that his nominee be granted a 4 year scholarship or may instead designate 2 or 4 nominees for that particular scholarship, each to receive a 2 year or a one year scholarship, respectively. The nominee, if a graduate of a school accredited by the University to which nominated, shall be admitted to the university on the same conditions as to educational qualifications as are other graduates of accredited schools. If the nominee is not a graduate of a school accredited by the university to which nominated, he or she must, before being entitled to the benefits of the scholarship, pass an examination given by the superintendent of schools of the county where he or she resides at the time stated in Section 30-7 (now repealed) for the competitive examination. The president of each university shall prescribe the rules governing the examination for scholarship to his or her university.

A member of the General Assembly may award the scholarship by competitive examination conducted under like rules as prescribed in Section 30-7 (now repealed) even though one or more of the applicants are graduates of schools accredited by the university.

The Illinois Student Assistance Commission must develop a standard General Assembly scholarship application and shall be responsible for the administration of the application process. An application must be submitted by all scholarship candidates and received by the Commission. The Commission shall adopt rules to govern the application process. A member of the General Assembly may delegate to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission the authority to nominate persons for General Assembly scholarships which that member would otherwise be entitled to award, or may direct the Commission to evaluate and make recommendations to the member concerning candidates for such scholarships. In the event a member delegates his or her nominating authority or directs the Commission to evaluate and make recommendations concerning candidates for General Assembly scholarships, the member shall inform the Commission in writing of the criteria which he or she wishes the Commission to apply in nominating or recommending candidates. Those criteria may include some or all of the criteria provided in Section 25 of the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. A delegation of authority under this paragraph may be revoked at any time by the member.

Failure of a member of the General Assembly to make a nomination in any year shall not cause that scholarship to lapse, but the member may make a nomination for such scholarship at any time thereafter before the expiration of his or her term, and the person so nominated shall be entitled to the same benefits as holders of other scholarships provided herein. Any such scholarship for which a member has made no nomination prior to the expiration of the term for which he or she was elected shall lapse upon the expiration of that term.

(Source: P.A. 93-349, eff. 7-24-03.)".