HB2512ham002 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Deanne M. Mazzochi

Filed: 4/3/2019

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2512

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2512 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Board of Higher Education Act is amended by changing Section 9.29 as follows:

(110 ILCS 205/9.29)

Sec. 9.29. Tuition and fee waiver report.

(a) The Board of Higher Education shall annually compile information concerning tuition and fee waivers and tuition and fee waiver programs that has been provided by the Boards of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Chicago State University, Eastern Illinois University, Governors State University, Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois University, Northern Illinois University, and Western Illinois University and shall report its findings and recommendations concerning tuition and fee waivers and tuition and fee waiver programs to the General Assembly by filing electronic or paper copies of its report by December 31 of each year as provided in Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization Act.

(b) No later than July 1, 2020, and annually thereafter, each public university must submit a report to the Board of Higher Education on the amount of tuition that undergraduate, degree-seeking students attending the university paid in the previous academic year that includes all of the following information:

(1) The percentage of undergraduate students who paid more than 75% of full tuition costs.

(2) The percentage of undergraduate students who paid more than 50% but no more than 75% of full tuition costs.

(3) The percentage of undergraduate students who paid more than 25% but no more than 50% of full tuition costs.

(4) The percentage of undergraduate students who paid no more than 25% of full tuition costs.

(5) The percentage of undergraduate students who had no tuition costs. The tuition costs calculated under this subsection must reflect the amount of tuition paid by a student after all scholarships, grants, and other financial assistance have been applied to his or her tuition charge and must reflect only the amounts paid by undergraduate, degree-seeking students.

The Board of Higher Education must annually compile and submit to the General Assembly, as part of the report required under subsection (a), the information received under this subsection.

(Source: P.A. 100-167, eff. 1-1-18.)".