Full Text of HB4606 95th General Assembly
HB4606 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB4606
Introduced , by Rep. Milton Patterson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/30-9 |
from Ch. 122, par. 30-9 |
105 ILCS 5/30-10 |
from Ch. 122, par. 30-10 |
105 ILCS 5/30-11 |
from Ch. 122, par. 30-11 |
105 ILCS 5/30-12.5 |
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105 ILCS 5/30-13 |
from Ch. 122, par. 30-13 |
105 ILCS 5/30-14 |
from Ch. 122, par. 30-14 |
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Amends the School Code. Provides that a General Assembly scholarship may be used at a trade school located in the State, not just a State university.
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A BILL FOR
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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 School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 30-9, 30-10, 30-11, 30-12.5, 30-13, and 30-14 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/30-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-9)
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| Sec. 30-9. General Assembly scholarship; conditions of | 8 |
| admission; award by
competitive examination.
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| Each member of the General Assembly may nominate annually 2 | 10 |
| persons of
school age and otherwise eligible, from his or her | 11 |
| district; each shall
receive a
certificate of scholarship in | 12 |
| any State supported
university or any trade school located | 13 |
| within the State, as defined by rule of the Illinois Student | 14 |
| Assistance Commission, designated by the member. Any member of | 15 |
| the General Assembly in
making nominations under this Section | 16 |
| may designate that his or her nominee be
granted a 4 year | 17 |
| scholarship or may instead designate 2 or 4 nominees for
that | 18 |
| particular scholarship, each to receive a 2 year or a one year
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| scholarship, respectively. The nominee for a university , if a | 20 |
| graduate of a school
accredited by the University to which | 21 |
| nominated, shall be admitted to the
university on the same | 22 |
| conditions as to educational qualifications as are
other | 23 |
| graduates of accredited schools. If the nominee is not a |
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| graduate of
a school accredited by the university to which | 2 |
| nominated, he or she must, before
being entitled to the | 3 |
| benefits of the scholarship, pass an examination
given by the | 4 |
| superintendent of schools of the county where he or she resides | 5 |
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the time stated in Section 30-7 for the competitive | 6 |
| examination. The
president of each university shall prescribe | 7 |
| the rules governing the
examination for scholarship to his or | 8 |
| her university.
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| A member of the General Assembly may award the scholarship | 10 |
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competitive examination conducted under like rules as | 11 |
| prescribed in Section
30-7 even though one or more of the | 12 |
| applicants are graduates of schools
accredited by the | 13 |
| university.
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| 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 the | 18 |
| Commission to evaluate and make recommendations to the member
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| concerning candidates for such scholarships. In the event a | 20 |
| member
delegates his or her nominating authority or directs the | 21 |
| Commission to evaluate
and make recommendations concerning | 22 |
| candidates for General Assembly
scholarships, the member shall | 23 |
| inform the Commission in writing of the
criteria which he or | 24 |
| she wishes the Commission to apply in nominating or
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| recommending candidates. Those criteria may include some or all | 26 |
| of the
criteria provided in Section 25 of the Higher Education |
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| Student
Assistance Act. A delegation of authority under this | 2 |
| paragraph may be revoked
at any time by the member.
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| Failure of a member of the General Assembly to make a | 4 |
| nomination in any
year shall not cause that scholarship to | 5 |
| lapse, but the member may make a
nomination for such | 6 |
| scholarship at any time thereafter before the
expiration of his | 7 |
| or her term, and the person so nominated shall be entitled to
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| the same benefits as holders of other scholarships provided | 9 |
| herein. Any
such scholarship for which a member has made no | 10 |
| nomination prior to the
expiration of the term for which he or | 11 |
| she was elected shall lapse upon the
expiration of that term.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-349, eff. 7-24-03.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/30-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-10)
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| Sec. 30-10. Filing nominations-Failure to accept or | 15 |
| pass-Second
nomination.
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| Nominations, under Section 30-9, showing the name and | 17 |
| address of the
nominee, and the term of the scholarship, | 18 |
| whether 4 years, 2 years or
one year, must be filed with the | 19 |
| State Superintendent of Education not later
than the opening | 20 |
| day of the semester or term with which the scholarship is to
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| become effective. The State
Superintendent of Education shall | 22 |
| forthwith notify the
president of the university or trade | 23 |
| school of such nomination.
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| If the nominee fails to accept the nomination or, not being | 25 |
| a
graduate of a school accredited by the university , if he or |
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| she is a nominee for a university , fails to pass the
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| examination for admission, the president of the university or | 3 |
| trade school shall at once
notify the State Superintendent of | 4 |
| Education. Upon receiving such notification,
the State | 5 |
| Superintendent of Education shall notify the nominating
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| member, who may name another person for the scholarship. The | 7 |
| second
nomination must be received by the State Superintendent | 8 |
| of Education not
later than the middle of the semester or term | 9 |
| with which the scholarship
was to have become effective under | 10 |
| the original nomination in order to
become effective as of the | 11 |
| opening date of such semester or term
otherwise it shall not | 12 |
| become effective until the beginning of the next
semester or | 13 |
| term following the making of the second nomination. Upon
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| receiving such notification, the State Superintendent of | 15 |
| Education shall
notify the president of the university or trade | 16 |
| school of such second nomination.
If any person nominated after | 17 |
| the effective date of this amendatory Act
of 1973 to receive a | 18 |
| General Assembly scholarship changes his or her residence
to a | 19 |
| location outside of the district from which he or she was | 20 |
| nominated, his
or her nominating member may terminate that | 21 |
| scholarship at the conclusion of
the college year in which he | 22 |
| or she is then enrolled. For purposes of this
paragraph, a | 23 |
| person changes his or her residence if he or she registers to | 24 |
| vote in a
location outside of the district from which he or she | 25 |
| was nominated, but does
not change his or her residence merely | 26 |
| by taking off-campus housing or living
in a nonuniversity |
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| residence.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-349, eff. 7-24-03.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/30-11) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-11)
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| Sec. 30-11. Failure to use scholarship - Further | 5 |
| nominations. If any nominee under Section 30-9 or 30-10 | 6 |
| discontinues his or her course
of instruction or fails to use | 7 |
| the scholarship, leaving 1, 2, 3, or 4
years thereof unused, | 8 |
| the member of the General Assembly may, except as
otherwise | 9 |
| provided in this Article, nominate some other person eligible
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| under this Article from his or her district who shall be | 11 |
| entitled to the
scholarship for the unexpired period thereof. | 12 |
| Such appointment to an
unexpired scholarship vacated before | 13 |
| July 1, 1961, may be made only by
the member of the General | 14 |
| Assembly who made the original appointment and
during the time | 15 |
| he or she is such a member. If a scholarship is vacated on or
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| after July 1, 1961, and the member of the General Assembly who | 17 |
| made the
original appointment has ceased to be a member, some | 18 |
| eligible person may
be nominated in the following manner to | 19 |
| fill the vacancy: If the
original appointment was made by a | 20 |
| Senator, such nomination shall be
made by the Senator from the | 21 |
| same district; if the original appointment
was made by a | 22 |
| Representative,
such nomination
shall be made by the | 23 |
| Representative
from the same district. Every nomination to fill | 24 |
| a vacancy must
be accompanied either by a release of the | 25 |
| original nominee or if he or she is
dead then an affidavit to |
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| that effect by some competent person. The
failure of a nominee | 2 |
| to register at the university or trade school within 20 days | 3 |
| after
the opening of any semester or term shall be deemed a | 4 |
| release by him of
the nomination, unless he or she has been | 5 |
| granted a leave of absence in
accordance with Section 30-14 or | 6 |
| unless his or her absence is by reason of his
or her entry into | 7 |
| the military service of the United States. The university or | 8 |
| trade school shall immediately upon the
expiration of 20 days | 9 |
| after the beginning of the semester or term notify
the State | 10 |
| Board of Education
as to the status of each
scholarship, who | 11 |
| shall forthwith notify the nominating member of any
nominee's | 12 |
| failure to register or, if the nominating member has ceased to
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| be a member of the General Assembly, shall notify the member or | 14 |
| members
entitled to make the nomination to fill the vacancy. | 15 |
| All nominations to unused
or unexpired scholarships shall be | 16 |
| effective as of the opening of the semester
or term of the | 17 |
| university or trade school during which they are made if they | 18 |
| are filed with
the university or trade school during the first | 19 |
| half of the semester or term, otherwise
they shall not be | 20 |
| effective until the opening of the next following
semester or | 21 |
| term.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-349, eff. 7-24-03.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/30-12.5)
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| Sec. 30-12.5. Waiver of confidentiality.
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| (a) As a condition of nomination for a General Assembly |
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| scholarship under
Section 30-9, 30-10, or 30-11, each nominee | 2 |
| shall provide to the member of the
General Assembly making the | 3 |
| nomination a waiver document stating that,
notwithstanding
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| provision of law to the contrary, if the nominee receives a | 5 |
| General
Assembly scholarship, then the nominee waives all | 6 |
| rights to confidentiality
with respect to the contents of the | 7 |
| waiver document. The waiver document shall
state at a minimum | 8 |
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nominee's name,
domicile address, attending university or | 9 |
| trade school , degree program in which the
nominee is enrolled, | 10 |
| amount of tuition waived by the legislative
scholarship
and the | 11 |
| name of the member of the General
Assembly who is making the | 12 |
| nomination.
The waiver document shall also contain a statement | 13 |
| by the nominee that, at
the time of the nomination for the | 14 |
| legislative scholarship, the domicile of the
nominee is within | 15 |
| the legislative district of the legislator making the
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| scholarship nomination.
The waiver document must be signed by
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| the nominee, and the nominee shall have his or her signature on | 18 |
| the waiver
document
acknowledged before a notary public. The | 19 |
| member of the General Assembly making
the nomination shall file | 20 |
| the signed, notarized waiver document, together with
the
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| nomination itself, with the State Superintendent of Education.
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| By so filing the waiver document, the member waives all his or | 23 |
| her rights to
confidentiality with respect to the contents of | 24 |
| the waiver document.
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| (b) The legislative scholarship of any nominee shall be | 26 |
| revoked upon a
determination by the State Board of Education |
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| after a hearing that the nominee
knowingly provided false or | 2 |
| misleading information on the waiver document.
Upon revocation | 3 |
| of the legislative scholarship, the scholarship nominee shall
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| reimburse the university or trade school for the full amount of | 5 |
| any tuition waived prior to
revocation of the scholarship.
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| (c) The Illinois Student Assistance Commission shall | 7 |
| prepare a form waiver
document
to be used as provided in | 8 |
| subsection (a) and shall provide copies of the form
upon | 9 |
| request.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-349, eff. 7-24-03.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/30-13) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-13)
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| Sec. 30-13. The scholarships issued under Sections 30-9 | 13 |
| through 30-12
of this Article may be used at the University of | 14 |
| Illinois, Southern Illinois
University, Chicago State | 15 |
| University, Eastern Illinois University, Governors
State | 16 |
| University, Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois | 17 |
| University,
Northern Illinois University, and Western Illinois | 18 |
| University , or any trade school located in this State, as | 19 |
| provided in
those sections. Unless otherwise indicated, these
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| scholarships shall be good for a period of not more than 4 | 21 |
| years while enrolled
for residence credit and shall exempt the | 22 |
| holder from the payment of tuition,
or any matriculation, | 23 |
| graduation, activity, term or incidental fee, except
any | 24 |
| portion of a multipurpose fee which is used for a purpose for | 25 |
| which
exemption is not granted under this Section. Exemption |
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| shall not be granted
from any other fees, including book | 2 |
| rental, service, laboratory, supply,
union building, hospital | 3 |
| and medical insurance fees and any fees established
for the | 4 |
| operation and maintenance of buildings, the income of which is | 5 |
| pledged
to the payment of interest and principal on bonds | 6 |
| issued by the governing
board of any university or community | 7 |
| college.
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| Any student who has been or shall be awarded a scholarship | 9 |
| shall be
reimbursed by the appropriate university or community | 10 |
| college for any fees
which he or she has paid and for which | 11 |
| exemption is granted under this Section, if
application for | 12 |
| such reimbursement is made within 2 months following the school
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| term for which the fees were paid.
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| The holder of a scholarship shall be subject to all | 15 |
| examinations, rules
and requirements of the university or | 16 |
| community college in which he or she is enrolled
except as | 17 |
| herein directed.
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| This article does not prohibit the Board of Trustees of the | 19 |
| University
of Illinois, the Board of Trustees of Southern | 20 |
| Illinois University, the Board of Trustees of Chicago State | 21 |
| University, the Board of Trustees of Eastern Illinois | 22 |
| University, the Board of Trustees of Governors State | 23 |
| University, the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University, | 24 |
| the Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University, the | 25 |
| Board of Trustees of Western Illinois University the
Board of | 26 |
| Regents of the Regency Universities System and the Board
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| Governors of State Colleges and Universities for the | 2 |
| institutions under
their respective jurisdictions , or the | 3 |
| administrative authority of a trade school located in this | 4 |
| State, from granting other scholarships.
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| (Source: P.A. 88-228; 89-4, eff. 1-1-96.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/30-14) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-14)
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| Sec. 30-14. Leaves of absence to holders of scholarships.
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| Any student enrolled in a university or trade school to | 9 |
| which he or she is holding a
scholarship issued under this | 10 |
| Article who satisfies the president of the
university or trade | 11 |
| school or someone designated by him or her , that he or she | 12 |
| requires leave of absence
for the purpose of earning funds to | 13 |
| defray his or her expenses while in attendance
or on account of | 14 |
| illness or military service may be granted such leave and
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| allowed a period of not to exceed 6 years in which to complete | 16 |
| his or her course
at the university or trade school . The | 17 |
| university or trade school shall notify the county | 18 |
| superintendent of
the county from which the scholarship was | 19 |
| issued of the granting of the
leave. Time spent in the armed | 20 |
| forces shall not be part of the 6 years.
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| (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
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