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Rep. Sheri L Jesiel
Filed: 3/23/2015
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3742
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3742 by replacing |
3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | | "Section 5. The Higher Education Student Assistance Act is |
5 | | amended by changing Section 20 as follows:
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6 | | (110 ILCS 947/20)
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7 | | Sec. 20. Functions of Commission.
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8 | | (a) The Commission, in accordance with this Act, shall |
9 | | prepare and supervise
the issuance of public information |
10 | | concerning its provisions; prescribe the
form and regulate the |
11 | | submission of applications for assistance; provide for
and |
12 | | conduct, or cause to be conducted, all eligibility |
13 | | determinations of
applicants; award the appropriate financial |
14 | | assistance; and, upon request by a
member of the General |
15 | | Assembly, nominate or evaluate and recommend for
nomination |
16 | | applicants for General Assembly scholarships in accordance |
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1 | | with
criteria specified by the member under Section 30-9 of the |
2 | | School Code.
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3 | | (b) The Commission is authorized to participate in any |
4 | | programs
for monetary assistance to students and to receive, |
5 | | hold, and disburse all such
funds made available by any agency |
6 | | or organization for the purpose or purposes
for which they are |
7 | | made available. The Commission is authorized to administer
a |
8 | | program of grant assistance as authorized by the Baccalaureate |
9 | | Savings Act.
The Commission is authorized to participate in any |
10 | | programs established to
improve student financial aid services |
11 | | or the proficiency of persons engaged in
student financial aid |
12 | | services and to receive, hold, and disburse all funds
made |
13 | | available by any agency or organization for the purpose or |
14 | | purposes for
which they are made available subject to the |
15 | | appropriations of the General
Assembly.
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16 | | (c) The Commission is authorized to deny a scholarship or a |
17 | | grant to
any person who has defaulted on a guaranteed student |
18 | | loan and who is not
maintaining a satisfactory repayment |
19 | | record. If a person has a defaulted
guaranteed student loan but |
20 | | is otherwise eligible for assistance pursuant
to Section 40, |
21 | | the Commission shall award one term of assistance
during which |
22 | | a satisfactory repayment record must be established. If such a
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23 | | repayment record is not established, additional assistance |
24 | | shall be denied
until a satisfactory repayment record is |
25 | | established.
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26 | | (c-5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the |
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1 | | Commission is authorized to deny and shall immediately revoke a |
2 | | scholarship or grant to any person who has been convicted of a |
3 | | violent crime, as defined under Section 3 of the Rights of |
4 | | Crime Victims and Witnesses Act. |
5 | | Notwithstanding Section 35 of this Act, the Commission is |
6 | | authorized to deny and shall immediately revoke the MAP grant |
7 | | of any person who has accepted or received a MAP grant and who |
8 | | has been or is convicted of a violent crime, as defined under |
9 | | Section 3 of the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act. |
10 | | (d) The Commission is authorized to participate with |
11 | | federal, state,
county, local, and university law enforcement |
12 | | agencies in cooperative
efforts to detect and prosecute |
13 | | incidents of fraud in student assistance
programs.
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14 | | (e) The Administrative Review Law shall apply to and govern |
15 | | all proceedings
for the judicial review of final administrative |
16 | | decisions of the
Commission.
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17 | | (f) The Commission is authorized to make all necessary and |
18 | | proper rules, not
inconsistent with this Act, for the efficient |
19 | | exercise of the foregoing
functions.
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20 | | (g) Unless otherwise provided by statute, the functions of |
21 | | the
Commission shall be exercised without regard to any |
22 | | applicant's race,
creed, sex, color, national origin, or |
23 | | ancestry. |
24 | | (h) The Commission is authorized to establish systems and |
25 | | programs to encourage employers to match employee |
26 | | contributions to prepaid programs of college savings by making |
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1 | | donations to the Commission for prepaid programs of college |
2 | | savings to make higher education affordable for all residents |
3 | | of the State and to receive, hold, and disburse all such funds |
4 | | made available through those programs for the purposes for |
5 | | which they are authorized by rule or by law.
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6 | | (Source: P.A. 96-198, eff. 8-10-09.)
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7 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
8 | | becoming law.".
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