Public Act 90-0488 of the 90th General Assembly

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Public Act 90-0488

SB763 Enrolled                                 LRB9001075THpk

    AN ACT relating to student financial assistance.

    Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section  5.   The Higher Education Student Assistance Act
is amended by adding Section 38 as follows:

    (110 ILCS 947/38 new)
    Sec. 38.  Monetary  award  program  accountability.   The
Illinois  Student Assistance Commission is directed to assess
the  educational  persistence  of  monetary   award   program
recipients.   An  assessment under this Section shall include
an analysis of  such  factors  as  undergraduate  educational
goals,  chosen  field of study, retention rates, and expected
time to complete a degree.  The assessment also shall include
an analysis of the academic success of monetary award program
recipients through a review of measures  that  are  typically
associated   with  academic  success,  such  as  grade  point
average, satisfactory academic  progress,  and  credit  hours
earned.  Each analysis should take into consideration student
class  level,  dependency  types,  and  the  type  of  higher
education  institution  at  which each monetary award program
recipient is  enrolled.   The  Commission  shall  report  its
findings  to  the  General  Assembly  and the Board of Higher
Education by February 1, 1999 and  at  least  every  2  years
thereafter.

    Section  10.   The  Real  Estate  License  Act of 1983 is
amended by adding Sections 18.4 and 36.11a as follows:

    (225 ILCS 455/18.4 new)
    Sec. 18.4.   Disciplinary  action  for  educational  loan
defaults.   The  Commissioner  of Banks and Real Estate shall
deny a license or renewal authorized by  this  Article  to  a
person   who   has   defaulted  on  an  educational  loan  or
scholarship provided or guaranteed by  the  Illinois  Student
Assistance  Commission  or  any  governmental  agency of this
State; however, the  Commissioner  may  issue  a  license  or
renewal   if   the  person  has  established  a  satisfactory
repayment  record  as  determined  by  the  Illinois  Student
Assistance  Commission  or  other  appropriate   governmental
agency  of this State.  Additionally, a license issued by the
Commissioner may be suspended or revoked if the Commissioner,
after the opportunity for a hearing under this Article, finds
that the licensee has failed to make  satisfactory  repayment
to   the   Illinois   Student  Assistance  Commission  for  a
delinquent or defaulted  loan.   For  the  purposes  of  this
Section,  "satisfactory repayment record" shall be defined by
rule.

    (225 ILCS 455/36.11a new)
    Sec. 36.11a.  Disciplinary action  for  educational  loan
defaults.   The  Commissioner  of Banks and Real Estate shall
deny  issuance  of  a  certificate,   license,   or   renewal
authorized  by  this Article to a person who has defaulted on
an educational loan or scholarship provided or guaranteed  by
the   Illinois   Student   Assistance   Commission   or   any
governmental  agency of this State; however, the Commissioner
may issue a certificate, license, or renewal  if  the  person
has established a satisfactory repayment record as determined
by  the  Illinois  Student  Assistance  Commission  or  other
appropriate governmental agency of this State.  Additionally,
a  certificate  or  license issued by the Commissioner may be
suspended  or  revoked  if  the   Commissioner,   after   the
opportunity  for a hearing under this Article, finds that the
certificate  holder  or   licensee   has   failed   to   make
satisfactory  repayment  to  the  Illinois Student Assistance
Commission for a  delinquent  or  defaulted  loan.   For  the
purposes  of  this  Section,  "satisfactory repayment record"
shall be defined by rule.

    Section 15.  The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
changing Section 1900 as follows:

    (820 ILCS 405/1900) (from Ch. 48, par. 640)
    Sec. 1900.  Disclosure of information.
    A.  Except  as  provided  in  this  Section,  information
obtained from any individual or  employing  unit  during  the
administration of this Act shall:
         1.  be confidential,
         2.  not be published or open to public inspection,
         3.  not  be  used in any court in any pending action
    or proceeding,
         4.  not be admissible in evidence in any  action  or
    proceeding other than one arising out of this Act.
    B.  No  finding, determination, decision, ruling or order
(including any finding of fact, statement or conclusion  made
therein)  issued  pursuant to this Act shall be admissible or
used in evidence in any action other than one arising out  of
this  Act,  nor  shall  it be binding or conclusive except as
provided in this Act, nor shall it constitute  res  judicata,
regardless  of  whether  the actions were between the same or
related parties or involved the same facts.
    C.  Any officer or employee of  this  State  who,  except
with  authority  of  the  Director  under this Section, shall
disclose information shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor
and shall be disqualified from  holding  any  appointment  or
employment by the State.
    D.  An  individual  or  his  duly authorized agent may be
supplied with information from records  only  to  the  extent
necessary  for  the  proper  presentation  of  his  claim for
benefits or  with  his  existing  or  prospective  rights  to
benefits.   Discretion  to  disclose this information belongs
solely to the Director and is not subject  to  a  release  or
waiver by the individual.
    E.  An  employing unit may be furnished with information,
only if deemed by the Director as necessary to enable  it  to
fully discharge its obligations or safeguard its rights under
the  Act.   Discretion  to  disclose this information belongs
solely to the Director and is not subject  to  a  release  or
waiver by the employing unit.
    F.  The  Director may furnish any information that he may
deem proper to any public officer or public agency of this or
any other State or of the federal government dealing with:
         1.  the administration of relief,
         2.  public assistance,
         3.  unemployment compensation,
         4.  a system of public employment offices,
         5.  wages and hours of employment, or
         6.  a public works program.
    The  Director  may  make  available   to   the   Illinois
Industrial Commission information regarding employers for the
purpose  of  verifying  the insurance coverage required under
the  Workers'  Compensation  Act  and  Workers'  Occupational
Diseases Act.
    G.  The Director may disclose  information  submitted  by
the  State  or  any  of its political subdivisions, municipal
corporations,  instrumentalities,  or  school  or   community
college  districts, except for information which specifically
identifies an individual claimant.
    H.  The Director shall  disclose  only  that  information
required  to  be  disclosed  under  Section 303 of the Social
Security Act, as amended, including:
         1.  any information required to be given the  United
    States Department of Labor under Section 303(a)(6); and

         2.  the  making available upon request to any agency
    of the United States charged with the  administration  of
    public works or assistance through public employment, the
    name,  address, ordinary occupation and employment status
    of each recipient of  unemployment  compensation,  and  a
    statement   of   such   recipient's   right   to  further
    compensation  under  such  law  as  required  by  Section
    303(a)(7); and
         3.  records  to  make  available  to  the   Railroad
    Retirement Board as required by Section 303(c)(1); and
         4.  information    that   will   assure   reasonable
    cooperation  with  every  agency  of  the  United  States
    charged  with  the  administration  of  any  unemployment
    compensation law as required by Section 303(c)(2); and
         5.  information upon request and on  a  reimbursable
    basis  to the United States Department of Agriculture and
    to any State food stamp agency concerning any information
    required to be furnished by Section 303(d); and
         6.  any wage  information  upon  request  and  on  a
    reimbursable  basis  to  any State or local child support
    enforcement agency required by Section 303(e); and
         7.  any  information  required  under   the   income
    eligibility   and  verification  system  as  required  by
    Section 303(f); and
         8.  information that might be useful in locating  an
    absent  parent  or that parent's employer for the purpose
    of a child support enforcement program under Title IV  of
    the  Social  Security  Act upon the request of the public
    agency administering the Federal Parent  Locator  Service
    as required by Section 303(h); and
         9.  information, upon request, to representatives of
    any  federal,  State or local governmental public housing
    agency with respect to individuals who  have  signed  the
    appropriate  consent  form  approved  by the Secretary of
    Housing and Urban Development and who are applying for or
    participating   in   any   housing   assistance   program
    administered by the United States Department  of  Housing
    and Urban Development as required by Section 303(i).
    I.  The  Director, upon the request of a public agency of
Illinois, of the federal government or  of  any  other  state
charged with the investigation or enforcement of Section 10-5
of  the  Criminal  Code  of 1961 (or a similar federal law or
similar law of another State), may furnish the public  agency
information regarding the individual specified in the request
as to:
         1.  the  current  or most recent home address of the
    individual, and
         2.  the names  and  addresses  of  the  individual's
    employers.
    J.  Nothing  in this Section shall be deemed to interfere
with the disclosure of certain records  as  provided  for  in
Section  1706  or  with  the  right  to make available to the
Internal Revenue Service of the United States  Department  of
the  Treasury,  or  the Department of Revenue of the State of
Illinois, information obtained under this Act.
    K.  The Department shall make available to  the  Illinois
Student   Assistance   State   Scholarship  Commission,  upon
request, information in the possession of the Department that
it may be necessary  or  useful  to  the  Commission  in  the
collection of defaulted or delinquent student loans which the
Commission  administers, information limited to the names and
addresses of a borrower's employers.
    L.  The Department shall  make  available  to  the  State
Employees'   Retirement   System,   the   State  Universities
Retirement System, and the Teachers' Retirement System of the
State  of  Illinois,  upon  request,   information   in   the
possession  of the Department that may be necessary or useful
to the System for the  purpose  of  determining  whether  any
recipient   of  a  disability  benefit  from  the  System  is
gainfully employed.
    M.  This Section shall be applicable to  the  information
obtained  in  the  administration  of  the  State  employment
service,  except  that  the  Director  may publish or release
general labor market information and may furnish  information
that  he  may deem proper to an individual, public officer or
public agency of this or  any  other  State  or  the  federal
government  (in  addition  to those public officers or public
agencies specified in this Section) as he prescribes by Rule.
    N.  The Director may require such safeguards as he  deems
proper  to insure that information disclosed pursuant to this
Section is used only for  the  purposes  set  forth  in  this
Section.
    O.  (Blank).
    P.  Within  30  days  after  the  effective  date of this
amendatory  Act  of  1993  and   annually   thereafter,   the
Department  shall  provide  to  the  Department  of Financial
Institutions a list of individuals or entities that, for  the
most   recently   completed  calendar  year,  report  to  the
Department as paying wages to workers.  The  lists  shall  be
deemed  confidential  and  may  not be disclosed to any other
person.
    Q.  The Director  shall  make  available  to  an  elected
federal  official  the  name  and address of an individual or
entity that is located within the jurisdiction from which the
official  was  elected  and  that,  for  the  most   recently
completed  calendar  year,  has reported to the Department as
paying wages to workers, where the information will  be  used
in  connection  with  the official duties of the official and
the official requests the information in writing,  specifying
the  purposes for which it will be used. For purposes of this
subsection, the use of information  in  connection  with  the
official  duties  of  an official does not include use of the
information  in   connection   with   the   solicitation   of
contributions  or expenditures, in money or in kind, to or on
behalf of a candidate for public or  political  office  or  a
political  party  or  with  respect  to a public question, as
defined in Section 1-3 of the Election Code, or in connection
with  any  commercial  solicitation.   Any  elected   federal
official who, in submitting a request for information covered
by  this  subsection,  knowingly  makes  a false statement or
fails to disclose a material fact, with the intent to  obtain
the   information  for  a  purpose  not  authorized  by  this
subsection, shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A.  88-435;  89-446,  eff.  2-8-96;  89-493,  eff.
1-1-97.)

    Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

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