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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 Health Services Education Grants Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Sections 2 and 4 and by adding Section 5.5 | 6 |
| as follows:
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| (110 ILCS 215/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 822)
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| Sec. 2. The Board of Higher Education is authorized to | 9 |
| distribute funds
equitably to non-profit health service | 10 |
| educational institutions in this
State by grants as set forth | 11 |
| in this Act and to prescribe forms and
procedures for | 12 |
| applications for such grants.
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| No grant shall be made to any institution which | 14 |
| discriminates in the
admission of students or the use of its | 15 |
| facilities on the basis of race,
color, creed, sex or national | 16 |
| origin.
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| No facilities constructed with the aid of these grants | 18 |
| shall be used for
sectarian instruction or as a place for | 19 |
| religious worship.
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| (Source: P.A. 80-1155.)
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| (110 ILCS 215/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 824)
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| Sec. 4. Grants may be made to the following classes of | 23 |
| institutions that offer health services programs: (i) medical, | 24 |
| dental, pharmacy, optometry, and
nursing schools, (ii)
to
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| physician assistant programs, (iii)
to other health-related
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| schools and programs, and (iv)
to hospitals and clinical | 27 |
| facilities used in health
service training programs.
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| Qualification for grants shall be on the basis of either | 29 |
| the number of
Illinois resident enrollees or the number of | 30 |
| degrees granted to students who
are residents of this State or | 31 |
| both. The grant amount shall be determined by
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| Higher Education for each class of institution.
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| At the discretion of the Board of Higher Education grants | 3 |
| may be made
for a
each class of institution in any or all of the | 4 |
| following forms:
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| (1) Single nonrecurring grants for planning and | 6 |
| capital expense based
on the increase in the number of | 7 |
| Illinois resident enrollees;
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| (2) Annual grants based on the number of degrees | 9 |
| granted to (a) Illinois
resident enrollees, or (b) Illinois | 10 |
| resident enrollees from minority racial
and ethnic groups, | 11 |
| or both (a) and (b); and
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| (3) Annual stabilization grants based on the number of | 13 |
| (a) Illinois
residents enrolled, or (b) Illinois residents | 14 |
| enrolled from minority racial
and ethnic groups, or both | 15 |
| (a) and (b) ; and .
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| (4) Program priority grants based on State residents | 17 |
| enrolled in eligible programs that address public demand | 18 |
| for health services, workforce needs and shortages, and | 19 |
| other programmatic priorities, such as sole service | 20 |
| providers, academic needs, or industry standards. The | 21 |
| Board of Higher Education may annually dedicate a portion | 22 |
| of appropriated funds, not to exceed 10% of appropriations, | 23 |
| to support program priority grants. In determining program | 24 |
| priority areas, the Board of Higher Education shall | 25 |
| annually consult with constituent institutions.
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| In awarding grants to nursing schools and to hospital | 27 |
| schools of nursing,
the Board of Higher Education may also | 28 |
| consider whether the nursing program
is located in a certified | 29 |
| nurse shortage area. For purposes of this Section
"certified | 30 |
| nurse shortage area" means an area certified by the Director
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| the Department of Public Health as a nurse shortage area based | 32 |
| on the
most reliable data available to the Director.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-45, eff. 7-1-02.)
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| (110 ILCS 215/5.5 new)
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| Sec. 5.5. All grants under this Act shall be administered |
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| subject to funding availability. Nothing in this Act shall be | 2 |
| construed to mandate that grants be given to any one class of | 3 |
| institution or to every institution within a class, however, | 4 |
| every institution offering eligible, accredited programs that | 5 |
| received grant support in fiscal year 2005 shall continue to | 6 |
| receive grant support at a comparable level in subsequent | 7 |
| years.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 9 |
| becoming law.
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