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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,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Private Business and Vocational Schools Act | ||||||
5 | is amended by changing Section 1.1 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 425/1.1)
(from Ch. 144, par. 136.1)
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7 | Sec. 1.1. Exemptions and annual filing.
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8 | (a) For purposes of this Act, the following shall
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9 | considered to be a private business and vocational school:
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10 | (1) Any eleemosynary institution.
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11 | (2) Any religious institution.
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12 | (3) Any public educational institution exempt from | ||||||
13 | property taxation
under the laws of this State.
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14 | (4) Any in-service course of instruction and subject | ||||||
15 | offered by an
employer provided no tuition is charged and | ||||||
16 | such instruction is offered
only to employees of such | ||||||
17 | employer.
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18 | (5) (Blank) Any educational institution (A) which (i) | ||||||
19 | enrolls a
majority of its students in degree programs and | ||||||
20 | has maintained an
accredited status with the Commission on | ||||||
21 | Institutions of Higher Education of
the North Central | ||||||
22 | Association of Colleges and Schools or (ii) on or after the
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23 | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General |
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1 | Assembly enrolls
students in one or more bachelor-level | ||||||
2 | programs,
enrolls a majority of its students in degree
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3 | programs,
and is accredited by a
national accrediting | ||||||
4 | agency that is recognized by the U.S. Department of
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5 | Education and (B) which is regulated by the Illinois Board | ||||||
6 | of Higher
Education under
the Private College Act or the | ||||||
7 | Academic Degree Act, or which is exempt from
such | ||||||
8 | regulation under either of the foregoing Acts solely for | ||||||
9 | the reason that
such educational institution was in | ||||||
10 | operation on the effective date of either
such Act .
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11 | (6) Any institution and the franchisees of such | ||||||
12 | institution which offer
exclusively a course of | ||||||
13 | instruction in income tax theory or return preparation
at a | ||||||
14 | total contract price of no more than $400, provided that | ||||||
15 | the total annual
enrollment of such institution for all | ||||||
16 | such courses of instruction exceeds 500
students, and | ||||||
17 | further provided that the total contract price for all
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18 | instruction offered to a student in any one calendar year | ||||||
19 | does not exceed $400.
For each calendar year after 1990, | ||||||
20 | the total contract price shall be adjusted,
rounded off to | ||||||
21 | the nearest dollar, by the same percentage as the increase | ||||||
22 | or
decrease in the general price level as measured by the | ||||||
23 | consumer price index for
all urban consumers for the United | ||||||
24 | States, or its successor index, as defined
and officially | ||||||
25 | reported by the United States Department of Labor, or its
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26 | successor agency. The change in the index shall be that as |
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1 | first published by
the Department of Labor for the calendar | ||||||
2 | year immediately preceding the year in
which the total | ||||||
3 | contract price is calculated. | ||||||
4 | (7) Any educational institution that maintains | ||||||
5 | accredited status with the Commission on Institutions of | ||||||
6 | Higher Education of the North Central Association of | ||||||
7 | Colleges and Schools or other comparable regional | ||||||
8 | accreditation association. | ||||||
9 | (8) Any educational institution that maintains | ||||||
10 | accredited status with a national accrediting agency that | ||||||
11 | is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. | ||||||
12 | (9) Any educational institution that is regulated in | ||||||
13 | whole or in part by the Illinois Board of Higher Education | ||||||
14 | or other comparable out-of-State educational agency.
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15 | (b) An institution exempted under subsection (a) of this | ||||||
16 | Section must file
with the Superintendent documentation that | ||||||
17 | demonstrates an annual financial report to demonstrate | ||||||
18 | continued
compliance by the institution with the requirements | ||||||
19 | on which the exemption is
based.
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20 | (Source: P.A. 95-126, eff. 8-13-07.)
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21 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | ||||||
22 | 2010.
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