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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1286

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 1286  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

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

 6        (105 ILCS 5/30-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-9)
 7        Sec. 30-9.  General  Assembly  scholarships  scholarship;
 8    conditions  of  admission;  award by competitive examination.
 9    Each member of the General Assembly may nominate  annually  2
10    persons  of  school  age  and  otherwise  eligible,  from his
11    district; one shall receive a certificate of  scholarship  in
12    the  University  of  Illinois  and  the other shall receive a
13    certificate of  scholarship  in  any  other  State  supported
14    university  designated  by  the  member.  Any  member  of the
15    General Assembly in making nominations under this Section may
16    designate that his nominee be granted a 4 year scholarship or
17    may instead designate 2 or 4  nominees  for  that  particular
18    scholarship,  each  to  receive  a  2  year  or  a  one  year
19    scholarship,  respectively.  The  nominee, if a graduate of a
20    school accredited by the University to which nominated, shall
21    be admitted to the university on the same  conditions  as  to
22    educational   qualifications   as   are  other  graduates  of
 
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 1    accredited schools. If the nominee is not  a  graduate  of  a
 2    school  accredited  by  the university to which nominated, he
 3    must,  before  being  entitled  to  the   benefits   of   the
 4    scholarship,  pass an examination given by the superintendent
 5    of schools of the county where he resides at the time  stated
 6    in   Section   30-7  for  the  competitive  examination.  The
 7    president  of  each  university  shall  prescribe  the  rules
 8    governing the examination for scholarship to his university.
 9        A  member  of  the  General  Assembly   may   award   the
10    scholarship  by  competitive examination conducted under like
11    rules as prescribed in Section 30-7 even though one  or  more
12    of  the applicants are graduates of schools accredited by the
13    university.
14        A member of the General  Assembly  may  delegate  to  the
15    Illinois  Student  Assistance  Commission  the  authority  to
16    nominate persons for General Assembly scholarships which that
17    member  would  otherwise  be entitled to award, or may direct
18    the Commission to evaluate and make  recommendations  to  the
19    member  concerning  candidates  for such scholarships. In the
20    event a member delegates his nominating authority or  directs
21    the   Commission   to   evaluate   and  make  recommendations
22    concerning candidates for General Assembly scholarships,  the
23    member shall inform the Commission in writing of the criteria
24    which  he  wishes  the  Commission  to apply in nominating or
25    recommending candidates. Those criteria may include  some  or
26    all  of  the  criteria  provided  in Section 25 of the Higher
27    Education Student Assistance Act. A delegation  of  authority
28    under  this  paragraph  may  be  revoked  at  any time by the
29    member.
30        Failure of a member of the General  Assembly  to  make  a
31    nomination  in  any  year shall not cause that scholarship to
32    lapse,  but  the  member  may  make  a  nomination  for  such
33    scholarship at any time thereafter before the  expiration  of
34    his  term,  and  the person so nominated shall be entitled to
 
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 1    the same benefits as holders of other  scholarships  provided
 2    herein.  Any  such scholarship for which a member has made no
 3    nomination prior to the expiration of the term for  which  he
 4    was elected shall lapse upon the expiration of that term.
 5    (Source: P.A. 87-997.)".