Full Text of HB3802 94th General Assembly
HB3802 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB3802
Introduced 2/25/2005, by Rep. Monique D. Davis - Arthur L. Turner - William Delgado - Cynthia Soto - Constance A. Howard, et al. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Provides that all scholarships administered by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission must be decoupled from any federal restriction that denies financial assistance to persons who have been convicted of drug offenses, and provides that anyone who has been denied financial assistance before the effective date of the amendatory Act is entitled to reapply for the scholarship if the denial was due to the federal restriction. Effective immediately.
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Higher Education Student Assistance Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 20 as follows:
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| (110 ILCS 947/20)
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| Sec. 20. Functions of Commission.
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| (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 | 17 |
| with
criteria specified by the member under Section 30-9 of the | 18 |
| School Code.
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| (b) The Commission is authorized to participate in any | 20 |
| programs
for monetary assistance to students and to receive, | 21 |
| hold, and disburse all such
funds made available by any agency | 22 |
| or organization for the purpose or purposes
for which they are | 23 |
| made available. The Commission is authorized to administer
a | 24 |
| program of grant assistance as authorized by the Baccalaureate | 25 |
| Savings Act.
The Commission is authorized to participate in any | 26 |
| programs established to
improve student financial aid services | 27 |
| or the proficiency of persons engaged in
student financial aid | 28 |
| services and to receive, hold, and disburse all funds
made | 29 |
| available by any agency or organization for the purpose or | 30 |
| purposes for
which they are made available subject to the | 31 |
| appropriations of the General
Assembly.
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| (c) The Commission is authorized to deny a scholarship or a |
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| grant to
any person who has defaulted on a guaranteed student | 2 |
| loan and who is not
maintaining a satisfactory repayment | 3 |
| record. If a person has a defaulted
guaranteed student loan but | 4 |
| is otherwise eligible for assistance pursuant
to Section 40, | 5 |
| the Commission shall award one term of assistance
during which | 6 |
| a satisfactory repayment record must be established. If such a
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| repayment record is not established, additional assistance | 8 |
| shall be denied
until a satisfactory repayment record is | 9 |
| established.
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| (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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| (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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| (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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| (g) Unless otherwise provided by statute, the functions of | 21 |
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Commission shall be exercised without regard to any | 22 |
| applicant's race,
creed, sex, color, national origin, or | 23 |
| ancestry.
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| (h) Notwithstanding any other requirement in a State or | 25 |
| federal law, all scholarships administered by the Commission | 26 |
| must be decoupled from any federal restriction that denies | 27 |
| financial assistance to persons who have been convicted of drug | 28 |
| offenses. With respect to any scholarship administered by the | 29 |
| Commission, anyone who has been denied financial assistance | 30 |
| before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th | 31 |
| General Assembly is entitled to reapply for the scholarship if | 32 |
| the denial was due to the federal restriction.
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| (Source: P.A. 87-997.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 35 |
| becoming law.
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