Illinois Senate Bill 1398 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Failed on January 13 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creates the Early Graduation Tuition Waiver Act. Provides that if a student graduates from grades 9 through 12 at a secondary school in this State that is recognized by the State Board of Education in less than 4 school years, then he or she is entitled to receive a tuition waiver to a public university in this State, with the length of the tuition waiver being equal to the difference between 8 semesters and the actual number of semesters the student was enrolled in grades 9 through 12. Provides that each year, the State Board shall receive and consider applications for these tuition waivers and award these tuition waivers to eligible applicants. Effective July 1, 2013.

EARLY GRADUATION TUITION WAIVR

Sen. Kirk Dillard [R]

Sen. Pamela Althoff [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-13	Senate	Session Sine Die
2013-03-22	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2013-03-19	Senate	Postponed - Higher Education
2013-03-13	Senate	Postponed - Higher Education
2013-03-05	Senate	Postponed - Higher Education
2013-02-14	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Pamela J. Althoff
2013-02-14	Senate	Assigned to Higher Education
2013-02-06	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2013-02-06	Senate	First Reading
2013-02-06	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Kirk W. Dillard

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1398&GAID=12&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=85&GA=98
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/98/SB/09800SB1398.htm