Illinois Senate Bill 1565 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 13 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Requires the Illinois Student Assistance Commission to establish and administer an adult vocational community college scholarship program. Provides that beginning with the 2020-2021 academic year, the Commission shall, each year, receive and consider applications for scholarships to community colleges for people over the age of 30 who have been unemployed and are actively searching for employment and who can identify the specific training certificate, credential, or associate degree that he or she is seeking to obtain. Allows applicants to re-apply for the scholarship if they can demonstrate continual progress toward the desired certificate, credential, or degree. Provides that scholarships shall not exceed $2,000 per recipient per academic year. Allows the Commission to establish appropriate applications and forms. Requires the Commission to adopt all necessary and proper rules to implement the program.

COMM COLL-VOCATION SCHOLARSHIP

Sen. Rachelle Crowe [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-13	Senate	Session Sine Die
2019-03-22	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2019-02-27	Senate	Assigned to Higher Education
2019-02-15	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2019-02-15	Senate	First Reading
2019-02-15	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Rachelle Crowe

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
110	947	65.105	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1565&GAID=15&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/SB/10100SB1565.htm