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92_HB4121
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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 School Code is amended by changing
5 Sections 30-9, 30-10, 30-11, and 30-12 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/30-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-9)
7 Sec. 30-9. General Assembly scholarship; conditions of
8 admission; award by competitive examination.
9 (a) The provisions of this subsection (a) are subject to
10 subsection (b). Each member of the General Assembly may
11 nominate annually 2 persons of school age and otherwise
12 eligible, from his district; one shall receive a certificate
13 of scholarship in the University of Illinois and the other
14 shall receive a certificate of scholarship in any other State
15 supported university designated by the member. Any member of
16 the General Assembly in making nominations under this Section
17 may designate that his nominee be granted a 4 year
18 scholarship or may instead designate 2 or 4 nominees for that
19 particular scholarship, each to receive a 2 year or a one
20 year scholarship, respectively. The nominee, if a graduate of
21 a school accredited by the University to which nominated,
22 shall be admitted to the university on the same conditions as
23 to educational qualifications as are other graduates of
24 accredited schools. If the nominee is not a graduate of a
25 school accredited by the university to which nominated, he
26 must, before being entitled to the benefits of the
27 scholarship, pass an examination given by the superintendent
28 of schools of the county where he resides at the time stated
29 in Section 30-7 for the competitive examination. The
30 president of each university shall prescribe the rules
31 governing the examination for scholarship to his university.
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1 A member of the General Assembly may award the
2 scholarship by competitive examination conducted under like
3 rules as prescribed in Section 30-7 even though one or more
4 of the applicants are graduates of schools accredited by the
5 university.
6 A member of the General Assembly may delegate to the
7 Illinois Student Assistance Commission the authority to
8 nominate persons for General Assembly scholarships which that
9 member would otherwise be entitled to award, or may direct
10 the Commission to evaluate and make recommendations to the
11 member concerning candidates for such scholarships. In the
12 event a member delegates his nominating authority or directs
13 the Commission to evaluate and make recommendations
14 concerning candidates for General Assembly scholarships, the
15 member shall inform the Commission in writing of the criteria
16 which he wishes the Commission to apply in nominating or
17 recommending candidates. Those criteria may include some or
18 all of the criteria provided in Section 25 of the Higher
19 Education Student Assistance Act. A delegation of authority
20 under this paragraph may be revoked at any time by the
21 member.
22 Failure of a member of the General Assembly to make a
23 nomination in any year shall not cause that scholarship to
24 lapse, but the member may make a nomination for such
25 scholarship at any time thereafter through June 1, 2003;
26 before the expiration of his term, and the person so
27 nominated shall be entitled to the same benefits as holders
28 of other scholarships provided herein. Any such scholarship
29 for which a member has made no nomination on or before June
30 1, 2003 prior to the expiration of the term for which he was
31 elected shall lapse upon the expiration of that term.
32 (b) After June 1, 2003 no person may be nominated to
33 receive any one-year, 2-year, 4-year, or other scholarship or
34 certificate of scholarship under this Section, nor may any
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1 such scholarship be awarded under this Section after June 1,
2 2003 unless the person was nominated prior to that date to
3 receive that scholarship.
4 (Source: P.A. 87-997.)
5 (105 ILCS 5/30-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-10)
6 Sec. 30-10. Filing nominations; failure to accept or
7 pass; second nomination.
8 Nominations that are made, under Section 30-9 on or
9 before June 1, 2003 and that show, showing the name and
10 address of the nominee, and the term of the scholarship,
11 whether 4 years, 2 years or one year, must be filed with the
12 State Superintendent of Education if the scholarship is in a
13 university other than the University of Illinois, or with the
14 president of the University of Illinois if the scholarship is
15 in such university, not later than the opening day of the
16 semester or term with which the scholarship is to become
17 effective. The State Superintendent of Education shall
18 forthwith notify the president of the university other than
19 the University of Illinois of such nomination. No valid
20 nomination to any scholarship may be made under Section 30-9
21 after June 1, 2003.
22 If the nominee fails to accept the nomination or, not
23 being a graduate of a school accredited by the university,
24 fails to pass the examination for admission, the president of
25 the university shall at once notify the State Superintendent
26 of Education if the university is other than the University
27 of Illinois. Upon receiving such notification, the State
28 Superintendent of Education shall notify the nominating
29 member, who may, on or before, but not after June 1, 2003,
30 name another person for the scholarship. In the case of a
31 scholarship in the University of Illinois, such notification
32 shall be given by the president thereof to the nominating
33 member. The second nomination must be received by the State
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1 Superintendent of Education or president of the University of
2 Illinois, as the case may be, not later than the middle of
3 the semester or term with which the scholarship was to have
4 become effective under the original nomination in order to
5 become effective as of the opening date of such semester or
6 term otherwise it shall not become effective until the
7 beginning of the next semester or term following the making
8 of the second nomination; provided that the second nomination
9 must be made, if at all, on or before June 1, 2003 or the
10 scholarship shall be deemed to have lapsed by operation of
11 law. Upon receiving such notification of a second nomination
12 on or before June 1, 2003, the State Superintendent of
13 Education shall notify the president of the university of
14 such second nomination. If any person nominated after the
15 effective date of this amendatory Act of 1973 to receive a
16 General Assembly scholarship changes his residence to a
17 location outside of the district from which he was nominated,
18 his nominating member may terminate that scholarship at the
19 conclusion of the college year in which he is then enrolled,
20 but after June 1, 2003 no person may be nominated to receive
21 or otherwise be awarded all or any part of the scholarship
22 that is unused or unexpired at the time the scholarship is so
23 terminated. For purposes of this paragraph, a person changes
24 his residence if he registers to vote in a location outside
25 of the district from which he was nominated, but does not
26 change his residence merely by taking off-campus housing or
27 living in a nonuniversity residence.
28 (Source: P.A. 80-278.)
29 (105 ILCS 5/30-11) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-11)
30 Sec. 30-11. Failure to use scholarship; further
31 nominations. If any nominee under Section 30-9 or 30-10
32 discontinues his course of instruction or fails to use the
33 scholarship, leaving 1, 2, 3, or 4 years thereof unused, the
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1 member of the General Assembly may, except as otherwise
2 provided in this Article, nominate some other person eligible
3 under this Article from his district who shall be entitled to
4 the scholarship for the unexpired period thereof; provided
5 that the nomination for the unexpired period of the
6 scholarship must be made, if at all, on or before June 1,
7 2003 or such nomination shall be invalid, and the
8 scholarship and its unexpired period shall be deemed to have
9 lapsed by operation of law. Such appointment to an unexpired
10 scholarship vacated before July 1, 1961, may be made only by
11 the member of the General Assembly who made the original
12 appointment and during the time he is such a member. If a
13 scholarship is vacated on or after July 1, 1961, and the
14 member of the General Assembly who made the original
15 appointment has ceased to be a member, some eligible person
16 may be nominated in the following manner to fill the vacancy:
17 If the original appointment was made by a Senator, such
18 nomination shall be made by the Senator from the same
19 district; if the original appointment was made by a
20 Representative, such nomination shall be made by the
21 Representative from the same district. Every nomination to
22 fill a vacancy must be made on or before June 1, 2003 and
23 accompanied either by a release of the original nominee or if
24 he is dead then an affidavit to that effect by some competent
25 person. The failure of a nominee to register at the
26 university within 20 days after the opening of any semester
27 or term shall be deemed a release by him of the nomination,
28 unless he has been granted a leave of absence in accordance
29 with Section 30-14 or unless his absence is by reason of his
30 entry into the military service of the United States. The
31 university, other than the University of Illinois, shall
32 immediately upon the expiration of 20 days after the
33 beginning of the semester or term notify the State Board of
34 Education as to the status of each scholarship, who shall
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1 forthwith notify the nominating member of any nominee's
2 failure to register or, if the nominating member has ceased
3 to be a member of the General Assembly, shall notify the
4 member or members entitled to make the nomination to fill the
5 vacancy. In the case of a scholarship in the University of
6 Illinois, such notification of vacancy shall be made by the
7 president thereof to the nominating member or his successor
8 as above provided. All nominations to unused or unexpired
9 scholarships, if made on or before June 1, 2003, shall be
10 effective as of the opening of the semester or term of the
11 university during which they are made if they are filed with
12 the university during the first half of the semester or term,
13 otherwise they shall not be effective until the opening of
14 the next following semester or term; provided that no
15 nomination to an unused or unexpired scholarship is valid if
16 made after June 1, 2003, and an unused or unexpired
17 scholarship shall be deemed to have lapsed by operation of
18 law unless the nomination to that unused or unexpired
19 scholarship is made on or before June 1, 2003.
20 (Source: P.A. 82-1003.)
21 (105 ILCS 5/30-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-12)
22 Sec. 30-12. Failure to begin or discontinuance of course
23 because of military service.
24 Any nominee, under Sections 30-9, 30-10, or 30-11, who
25 fails to begin or discontinues his course of instruction
26 because of his entry into the military service of the United
27 States, leaving all or a portion of the scholarship unused,
28 may, upon completion of such service, use the scholarship or
29 the unused portion thereof, regardless of whether or not the
30 member of the General Assembly who nominated him is then a
31 member; provided that during the nominee's period of military
32 service no other person may be nominated by such member to
33 all or any portion of such unused or unfinished scholarship
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1 unless the nomination is accompanied either by a release of
2 the original nominee or if he is dead then an affidavit to
3 that effect by some competent person and unless the
4 nomination is made on or before June 1, 2003.
5 (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
6 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7 becoming law.