Full Text of SB0457 101st 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: any time between September | 14 | | 16, 1940 and the
termination of World War II, any time during | 15 | | the national emergency
between June 25, 1950 and January 31, | 16 | | 1955, any time during the Viet
Nam conflict between January 1, | 17 | | 1961 and May 7, 1975, any time during the siege of Beirut and | 18 | | the Grenada Conflict between June 14, 1982 and December 15, | 19 | | 1983, or any
time on or after August 2, 1990 and until Congress | 20 | | or the President orders that
persons in service are no longer | 21 | | eligible for
the Southwest Asia Service Medal, Operation | 22 | | Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Preference for | 23 | | scholarships shall be
given to the children of persons who are |
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| 1 | | deceased or to the children of persons who have a disability , | 2 | | including the children of veterans who were police officers or | 3 | | fire officers and were killed in the line of duty while | 4 | | employed by, or in the voluntary service of, this State or any | 5 | | local public entity in this State . Such scholarships shall be
| 6 | | granted to such pupils as shall, upon public examination, | 7 | | conducted as
the board of trustees of the University may | 8 | | determine, be decided to
have attained the greatest proficiency | 9 | | in the branches of learning
usually taught in the secondary | 10 | | schools, and who shall be of good moral
character, and not less | 11 | | than 15 years of age. Such pupils, so selected,
shall be | 12 | | entitled to receive, without charge for tuition, instruction in
| 13 | | any or all departments of the University for a term of at least | 14 | | 4
consecutive years. Such pupils shall conform, in all | 15 | | respects, to the
rules and regulations of the University, | 16 | | established for the government
of the pupils in attendance.
| 17 | | (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 99-377, eff. 8-17-15; | 18 | | 99-642, eff. 7-28-16.)
| 19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 20 | | becoming law.
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