Bill Amendment: IL HB5021 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: IBHE-PUBLIC COLLEGE-CLOSING

Status: 2018-08-21 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-1008 [HB5021 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB5021-House_Amendment_002.html

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Rep. Robert W. Pritchard

Filed: 3/12/2018

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5021
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5021 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Board of Higher Education Act is amended by
adding Section 16 as follows:
(110 ILCS 205/16 new)
Sec. 16. Closing an institution of higher education;
student records.
(a) In this Section:
"Academic records" means the academic records of each
former student of an institution of higher education that is
traditionally provided on an academic transcript, including,
but not limited to, courses taken, terms, grades, and any other
similar information.
"Institution of higher education" means any publicly or
privately operated university, college, junior college,

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business, technical or vocational school, or other educational
institution offering degrees and instruction beyond the
secondary school level. "Institution of higher education" does
not include a public community college.
(b) In the event an institution of higher education
proposes to discontinue its operations, the chief
administrative officer of the institution shall submit a plan
to the Board for permanent retention of all academic records of
the institution. The plan must be approved by the Executive
Director of the Board before it is executed.
(c) If it appears to the Board that the academic records of
an institution of higher education may become lost, hidden,
destroyed, or otherwise made unavailable to the Board, the
Board may seize and take possession of the records, on its own
motion and without order of a court.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".