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90_HB2565enr

      110 ILCS 205/6            from Ch. 144, par. 186
          Amends the Board of Higher  Education  Act.   Supplies  a
      caption for a Section relating to the Board's master plan for
      higher education.
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 1        AN ACT in relation to higher education.
 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section 5.  The Board of Higher Education Act is  amended
 5    by adding Section 9.27 as follows:
 6        (110 ILCS 205/9.27 new)
 7        Sec. 9.27.  Graduation incentive grant program.
 8        (a)  The  graduation  incentive  grant  program is hereby
 9    created.  The program shall be implemented  and  administered
10    by  the Board of Higher Education to provide grant incentives
11    to  public  universities  that  offer   their   undergraduate
12    students  contracts under which the university commits itself
13    to  provide  the  courses,  programs,  and  support  services
14    necessary to enable  the  contracting  students  to  graduate
15    within  4 years.  Grants shall be awarded from appropriations
16    made to the Board of Higher Education for  purposes  of  this
17    Section.
18        (b)  To  be  eligible  for  grant consideration, a public
19    university shall annually file a report  with  the  Board  of
20    Higher  Education  detailing  its  4-year graduation contract
21    program.   The  report  shall  include,  at  a  minimum,  the
22    following information:  the number of undergraduate  students
23    participating  in the program, the requirements of the 4-year
24    graduation contracts offered by the university, the types  of
25    additional support services provided by the university to the
26    contracting students, and the cost of the program.
27        (c)  In awarding grants to public universities under this
28    Section,  the  Board  of  Higher  Education may consider each
29    applicant's report data, the number of  institutions  wishing
30    to  participate,  and  such  other  criteria  as the Board of
31    Higher Education determines to be appropriate.
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 1        (d)  The Board of Higher Education shall annually  submit
 2    to   the  Governor  and  the  General  Assembly  a  budgetary
 3    recommendation for grants under this Section and shall notify
 4    applicants for grant assistance  that  the  award  of  grants
 5    under  this  Section  is  contingent upon the availability of
 6    appropriated funds.
 7        (e)  The Board of Higher Education may adopt  such  rules
 8    as it deems necessary for administration of the grant program
 9    created by this Section.
10        Section  99.   Effective date. This Act takes effect July
11    1, 1998.

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