Full Text of SB1818 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The University of Illinois Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 9 as follows:
| 6 | | (110 ILCS 305/9) (from Ch. 144, par. 30)
| 7 | | Sec. 9. Scholarships for children of veterans. For each of | 8 | | the following
periods of hostilities, each county shall be | 9 | | entitled, annually, to one
honorary scholarship in the | 10 | | University, for the benefit of the children of
persons who | 11 | | served in the armed forces of the United States , except that | 12 | | the total number of scholarships annually granted to recipients | 13 | | from each county may not exceed 3 : the
Civil War, World War I, | 14 | | any time between September 16, 1940 and the
termination of | 15 | | World War II, any time during the national emergency
between | 16 | | June 25, 1950 and January 31, 1955, any time during the Viet
| 17 | | Nam conflict between January 1, 1961 and May 7, 1975, any time | 18 | | during the siege of Beirut and the Grenada Conflict between | 19 | | June 14, 1982 and December 15, 1983, or any
time on or after | 20 | | August 2, 1990 and until Congress or the President orders that
| 21 | | persons in service are no longer eligible for
the Southwest | 22 | | Asia Service Medal, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation | 23 | | Iraqi Freedom. Preference for scholarships shall be
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| 1 | | the children of persons who are deceased or
disabled. Such | 2 | | scholarships shall be
granted to such pupils as shall, upon | 3 | | public examination, conducted as
the board of trustees of the | 4 | | University may determine, be decided to
have attained the | 5 | | greatest proficiency in the branches of learning
usually taught | 6 | | in the secondary schools, and who shall be of good moral
| 7 | | character, and not less than 15 years of age. Such pupils, so | 8 | | selected,
shall be entitled to receive, without charge for | 9 | | tuition, instruction in
any or all departments of the | 10 | | University for a term of at least 4
consecutive years. Such | 11 | | pupils shall conform, in all respects, to the
rules and | 12 | | regulations of the University, established for the government
| 13 | | of the pupils in attendance.
| 14 | | (Source: P.A. 95-64, eff. 1-1-08.)
| 15 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 16 | | 2015.
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