Full Text of HB5835 98th General Assembly
HB5835 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2013 and 2014 HB5835 Introduced , by Rep. John M. Cabello SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 110 ILCS 805/6-2 | from Ch. 122, par. 106-2 |
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Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides that if a student enrolled in a community college is not a resident of the community college district but he or she is a resident of a county in this State that has a 10% or higher unemployment rate, then the student is eligible for the in-district tuition rate even though he or she is not a district resident.
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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 Public Community College Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 6-2 as follows:
| 6 | | (110 ILCS 805/6-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 106-2)
| 7 | | Sec. 6-2.
(a) Any graduate of a recognized high school or | 8 | | student otherwise
qualified to attend a public community | 9 | | college and residing outside a
community college district who | 10 | | notifies the board of education of his
district may, subject to | 11 | | Section 3-17, attend any recognized public
community college in | 12 | | the State which he chooses, and the board of education
of that | 13 | | district shall pay his tuition, as defined herein, for any
| 14 | | semester, quarter or term of that academic year and the | 15 | | following summer
term from the educational fund or the proceeds | 16 | | of a levy made under Section
6-1. In addition, any graduate of | 17 | | a recognized high school or student
otherwise qualified to | 18 | | attend a public community college and residing in a
new | 19 | | community college district formed pursuant to Section 6-6.1 who
| 20 | | notifies the board of education of his district may, subject to | 21 | | the
provisions of Section 3-17, attend any recognized public | 22 | | community college
in the State, and the board of education of | 23 | | that district shall pay his
tuition until January 1, 1991. If a |
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| 1 | | resident is not eligible for tuition
for a summer term because | 2 | | he did not notify his board of education by the
previous | 3 | | September 15, he may become eligible for that tuition for a | 4 | | summer
term by giving notice to the board of education by May | 5 | | 15 preceding his
enrollment for the summer term. Such tuition | 6 | | may not exceed the per capita
cost of the community college | 7 | | attended for the previous year, or in the
case of the first | 8 | | year of operation the estimated per capita cost, less
certain | 9 | | deductions to be computed in the manner set forth below. The
| 10 | | community college per capita cost shall be computed, in a | 11 | | manner consistent
with any accounting system prescribed by the | 12 | | State Board, by adding all of
the non-capital expenditures, | 13 | | including interest, to the depreciation on
capital outlay | 14 | | expenditures paid from sources other than State and Federal
| 15 | | funds and then dividing by the number of full-time equivalent | 16 | | students for
the fiscal year as defined in this Section. The | 17 | | community college tuition
to be charged to the district of the | 18 | | student's residence shall be computed,
in a manner consistent | 19 | | with any accounting system prescribed by the State
Board, by | 20 | | adding all of the non-capital expenditures for the previous | 21 | | year,
including interest, to the depreciation on capital outlay | 22 | | expenditures paid
from sources other than State and Federal | 23 | | funds less any payments toward
non-capital expenditures | 24 | | received from State and Federal sources for the
previous year | 25 | | except grants through the State Board, as authorized in
Section | 26 | | 2-16 or 2-16.02, as the case may be, and then dividing by the
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| 1 | | number of full-time equivalent
students for that fiscal year as | 2 | | defined in this Section; this average per
student computation | 3 | | shall be converted to a semester hour or quarter hour
base and | 4 | | further reduced by the combined rate of State grants other than
| 5 | | equalization grants for the current year as provided for in | 6 | | Section 2-16.02
and any rate of tuition and fees assessed all | 7 | | students for the current year
as authorized in Section 6-4.
| 8 | | Any person who has notified the board of education of his | 9 | | or her district
as provided above and who is a resident of that | 10 | | district at the time of
such notification shall have his or her | 11 | | tuition paid by that district
for that academic year and the | 12 | | following summer term so long as he or
she resides in Illinois | 13 | | outside a community college district. If he or
she becomes a | 14 | | resident of a community college district, he or she shall be
| 15 | | classified as a resident of that district at the beginning of | 16 | | any semester,
quarter or term following that change of | 17 | | residence.
| 18 | | (b) If a resident of a community college district wishes to | 19 | | attend the
community college maintained by the district of his | 20 | | or her residence
but the program in which the student wishes to | 21 | | enroll is not offered by that
community college, and the | 22 | | community college maintained by the district
of his residence | 23 | | does not have a contractual agreement under Section
3-40 of | 24 | | this Act for such program, the student may attend any | 25 | | recognized
public community college in some other district, | 26 | | subject to the
provisions of Section 3-17, and have his or her |
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| 1 | | tuition, as defined
herein, paid by the community college | 2 | | district of his or her residence
while enrolled in a program at | 3 | | that college which is not offered by his or
her home community | 4 | | college if he or she makes application to his or her
home board | 5 | | at least 30 days prior to the beginning of any semester, | 6 | | quarter
or term in accordance with rules, regulations and | 7 | | procedures established
and published by his or her home board. | 8 | | The payment of tuition by his or
her district of residence may | 9 | | not exceed the per capita cost of the
community college | 10 | | attended for the previous year, or in the case of the
first | 11 | | year of operation the estimated per capita cost, less certain
| 12 | | deductions to be computed in the manner set forth above for the | 13 | | community
college tuition to be charged to the district of the | 14 | | student's residence.
| 15 | | Payment shall be made hereunder to the community college | 16 | | district of
attendance immediately upon receipt, by the | 17 | | district liable for the
payment, of a statement from that | 18 | | community college district of the
amount due it. Before sending | 19 | | such a statement requesting payment,
however, the community | 20 | | college district of attendance shall make all
calculations and | 21 | | deductions required under this Section so that the
amount | 22 | | requested for payment is the exact amount required under this
| 23 | | Section to be paid by the district liable for payment.
| 24 | | If the moneys in the educational fund or the proceeds from | 25 | | a levy
made under Section 6-1 of a district liable for payments | 26 | | under this
Section are insufficient to meet such payments, the |
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| 1 | | district liable for
such payments may issue tax anticipation | 2 | | warrants as provided in Section
3-20.10.
| 3 | | (c) If a student enrolled in a community college is not a | 4 | | resident of the community college district but he or she is a | 5 | | resident of a county in this State that has a 10% or higher | 6 | | unemployment rate, as determined by the Department of | 7 | | Employment Security, then the student is eligible for the | 8 | | in-district tuition rate even though he or she is not a | 9 | | district resident. | 10 | | (d) A full-time equivalent student for a semester, quarter | 11 | | or term is
defined as a student doing 15 semester hours of work | 12 | | per semester or 15
quarter hours of work per quarter or the | 13 | | equivalent thereof, and the
number of full-time equivalent | 14 | | students enrolled per term shall be
determined by dividing by | 15 | | 15 the total number of semester hours or
quarter hours of work | 16 | | for which State Board grants are received, or the
equivalent | 17 | | thereof, carried by all students of the college through the
| 18 | | mid-term of each semester, quarter or term. The number of | 19 | | full-time
equivalent students for a fiscal year shall be | 20 | | computed by adding the total
number of semester hours or | 21 | | quarter hours of work or the equivalent thereof
carried by all | 22 | | students of the college through the mid-term of each
semester, | 23 | | quarter or term during that fiscal year and dividing that sum | 24 | | by
30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours or the equivalent | 25 | | thereof depending
upon the credit hour system utilized by the | 26 | | college. Tuition of students
carrying more or less than 15 |
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| 1 | | semester hours of work per semester or 15
quarter hours of work | 2 | | per quarter or the equivalent thereof shall be
computed in the | 3 | | proportion which the number of hours so carried bears to 15
| 4 | | semester hours or 15 quarter hours or the equivalent thereof.
| 5 | | (e) If the United States Government, the State of Illinois, | 6 | | or any agency
pays tuition for any community college student, | 7 | | neither the district of
residence of the student nor the | 8 | | student may be required to pay that
tuition or such part | 9 | | thereof as is otherwise paid. No part of the
State's financial | 10 | | responsibility provided for in Section 2-16
may be transferred | 11 | | to a student's district of residence under this Section.
| 12 | | (Source: P.A. 86-469; 86-1246; 87-1018.)
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