(110 ILCS 947/65.55)
Sec. 65.55.
Consolidation of scholarship, fellowship and traineeship
programs.
All scholarship, fellowship or traineeship
programs administered
by the Commission under the provisions of Sections 65.05, 65.10, 65.15, 65.20,
65.25, 65.30, 65.35, 65.45, and 65.50 involving
financial awards may be consolidated into one program whereby awards are
made in the areas of outstanding students,
minorities and shortage areas. When sufficient funds are not available to
award all applicants, preference shall be given based upon financial need.
Awards made under the provisions of this Section shall be contingent upon a
commitment to teach in the Illinois public schools in the area of the award
unless the recipient elects to repay the amount of the award in lieu of
teaching. The Commission shall adopt rules for the
implementation and administration of this Section;
provided that no rule or regulation promulgated by the State Board of
Education prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993 pursuant
to the exercise of any right, power, duty, responsibility or matter of pending
business transferred from the State Board of Education to the Commission under
this Section shall be affected thereby, and all such rules and regulations
shall become the rules and regulations of the Commission until modified or
changed by the Commission in accordance with law.
This Section is substantially the same as Section 30-14.7 of the School
Code, which Section is repealed by this amendatory Act of 1993, and shall be
construed as a continuation of that prior law and not as a new or different
law. The State Board of Education shall transfer to the Commission, as the
successor to the State Board of Education for all purposes of administering
and implementing the provisions of this Section, all books, accounts, records,
papers, documents, contracts, agreements, and pending business in any way
relating to the consolidation of scholarship, fellowship, and traineeship
programs under this Section;
and all scholarship, fellowship or traineeship
grants awarded by the State Board of Education prior to the effective date of
this amendatory Act of 1993 under the consolidated financial awards program
continued in this Section shall be unaffected by the transfer
to the Commission of all responsibility for administering and
implementing the provisions of this
Section. The State Board of Education shall furnish to the Commission such
other information as the Commission may request to assist it in administering
this Section.
(Source: P.A. 88-228.)
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