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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1135
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 1135 by replacing
3 the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT to amend the Higher Education Student Assistance
5 Act by adding Section 38."; and
6 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
7 following:
8 "Section 5. The Higher Education Student Assistance Act
9 is amended by adding Section 38 as follows:
10 (110 ILCS 947/38 new)
11 Sec. 38. Illinois resident scholarship program.
12 (a) A person who is a resident of Illinois, who is a
13 citizen of the United States, and who is accepted for
14 admission to an "institution of higher learning" (as that
15 term is defined in Section 10 of this Act) is eligible for a
16 scholarship under this Section when the Commission finds:
17 (1) in the case of a scholarship applicant who is
18 claimed as a dependent for federal income tax purposes
19 for the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar
20 year in which commences the academic year during which
21 the scholarship is to be effective, that the aggregate
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1 adjusted gross incomes for federal income tax purposes
2 for that immediately preceding calendar year of the
3 scholarship applicant and his or her parents or legal
4 guardians are less than $75,000; or
5 (2) in the case of a scholarship applicant who is
6 not claimed as a dependent for federal income tax
7 purposes for the calendar year immediately preceding the
8 calendar year in which commences the academic year during
9 which the scholarship is to be effective and who may not
10 be claimed as a dependent for federal income tax purposes
11 for the calendar year in which that academic year
12 commences, that the total adjusted gross income for
13 federal income tax purposes for that immediately
14 preceding calendar year of the scholarship applicant (or
15 the applicant and his or her spouse if the applicant was
16 married during that preceding calendar year) is less than
17 $25,000.
18 (b) Each scholarship awarded under this Section (i)
19 shall be in an amount sufficient to pay 50% of the
20 applicant's "tuition and other necessary fees" (as that term
21 is defined in Section 35 of this Act) at the institution of
22 higher learning in which the applicant enrolls, up to a
23 maximum of $1,000 per academic year; (ii) shall be applicable
24 toward 2 semesters or 3 quarters of enrollment within that
25 academic year, and (iii) shall be reduced by the amount or
26 value of any other scholarship, grant, or tuition waiver that
27 is received by the scholarship applicant and effective during
28 that academic year, if the scholarship or grant is to be paid
29 to or on behalf of the applicant from appropriated public
30 funds or if the tuition waiver is to be used at a public
31 university or public community college of this State.
32 (c) No person may receive more than 8 semesters or 12
33 quarters of scholarship assistance under this Section.
34 (d) All scholarship funds distributed under this Section
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1 shall be paid by the Commission directly to the institution
2 of higher learning at which the scholarship recipient is an
3 enrolled student.
4 (e) All applications for scholarship assistance to be
5 awarded under this Section shall be made to the Commission on
6 forms prescribed by the Commission. The Commission shall
7 require scholarship applicants to submit with their
8 applications such supporting documents as the Commission
9 deems necessary.
10 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July
11 1, 1997.".