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                                     LRB093 10108 NHT 10359 b

 1        AN ACT making appropriations.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5. The sum of $3,000,000,  or  so  much  of  that
 5    amount  as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General
 6    Revenue  Fund  to  the  Board   of   Higher   Education   for
 7    distribution as Access and Diversity grants authorized by the
 8    Higher  Education  Cooperation  Act  in  order to address the
 9    teacher   shortage   by   training   aspiring   teachers   in
10    understaffed regions and to increase teacher competency.

11        Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on July
12    1, 2003.