Bill Text: IL HB1430 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the Student Investment Account Act. Allows the State Treasurer to originate, guarantee, acquire, and service refinance loans; invest in, and enter into contracts with, institutions that provide refinance loans; deposit funds with financial institutions that provide refinance loans; establish specific criteria governing the eligibility of entities to participate in the making of refinance loans; charge and collect premiums for insurance on refinance loans; and deduct from a State employee's salary, wages, commissions, and bonuses the recovery of a refinance loan debt. Removes language allowing the State Treasurer to: enter into income share agreements with participants, facilitate income share agreements between participants and eligible income share agreement providers, and perform other acts as may be necessary or desirable in connection with income share agreements; enter into contracts and guarantee agreements as necessary to operate the Student Investment Account with income share agreement providers or qualified income share agreement organizations; establish specific criteria governing the eligibility of entities to participate in the making of income share agreements; pay income share agreement providers or qualified income share agreement organizations an administrative fee in connection with services provided pursuant to the Student Investment Account; charge and collect premiums for insurance on income share agreements; and deduct from a State employee's salary, wages, commissions, and bonuses the recovery of an income share agreement. Allows (rather than requires) the State Treasurer to establish fees to cover the costs of administration, recordkeeping, marketing, and investment management related to the Student Investment Account. Removes language allowing moneys in the Student Investment Account Assistance Fund to be used to provide assistance to income share agreement participants. Makes conforming changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado [HB1430 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB1430-Introduced.html

104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB1430

Introduced , by Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Student Investment Account Act. Allows the State Treasurer to originate, guarantee, acquire, and service refinance loans; invest in, and enter into contracts with, institutions that provide refinance loans; deposit funds with financial institutions that provide refinance loans; establish specific criteria governing the eligibility of entities to participate in the making of refinance loans; charge and collect premiums for insurance on refinance loans; and deduct from a State employee's salary, wages, commissions, and bonuses the recovery of a refinance loan debt. Removes language allowing the State Treasurer to: enter into income share agreements with participants, facilitate income share agreements between participants and eligible income share agreement providers, and perform other acts as may be necessary or desirable in connection with income share agreements; enter into contracts and guarantee agreements as necessary to operate the Student Investment Account with income share agreement providers or qualified income share agreement organizations; establish specific criteria governing the eligibility of entities to participate in the making of income share agreements; pay income share agreement providers or qualified income share agreement organizations an administrative fee in connection with services provided pursuant to the Student Investment Account; charge and collect premiums for insurance on income share agreements; and deduct from a State employee's salary, wages, commissions, and bonuses the recovery of an income share agreement. Allows (rather than requires) the State Treasurer to establish fees to cover the costs of administration, recordkeeping, marketing, and investment management related to the Student Investment Account. Removes language allowing moneys in the Student Investment Account Assistance Fund to be used to provide assistance to income share agreement participants. Makes conforming changes.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning education.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Student Investment Account Act is amended
5by changing Sections 5, 10, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 65 as
6follows:
7 (110 ILCS 991/5)
8 Sec. 5. Findings and purpose. The General Assembly finds
9that it is vital for the State to combat the college-debt
10crisis and increase access to post-secondary education for all
11residents of this State. The purpose of this Act is to assist
12qualified residents to attend and pay for post-secondary
13education through a system of investment programs, which may
14include income-sharing agreements, linked deposits, and
15student loans, and refinance loans.
16(Source: P.A. 101-586, eff. 8-26-19.)
17 (110 ILCS 991/10)
18 Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
19 "Borrower" means an Illinois resident student who has
20received an education loan or an Illinois resident parent who
21has received or agreed to pay an education loan, subject to
22approval by the State Treasurer.

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1 "Education loan" means a loan made to a borrower in
2accordance with this Act to finance an Illinois resident
3student's attendance at an institution of higher education.
4 "Income share agreement" means an agreement between a
5participant and an eligible institution of higher education or
6an income share agreement provider approved by the State
7Treasurer in which the participant agrees to pay a percentage
8of the participant's future earnings for a fixed period in
9exchange for funds to pay for their post-secondary education.
10 "Income share agreement provider" means an organization
11that allows income share agreement participants to fund their
12education by means of an income share agreement.
13 "Institution of higher education" means a post-secondary
14educational institution located in Illinois and approved by
15the State Treasurer.
16 "Participant" means a resident student who enters into an
17income share agreement for the purpose of funding the
18participant's attendance at an institution of higher
19education.
20 "Refinance loan" means a loan made to an Illinois resident
21in accordance with this Act to refinance an existing loan used
22to finance post-secondary education.
23 "Student Investment Account" means that portion of the
24Treasurer's State Investment Portfolio described in Section
2515.
26(Source: P.A. 101-586, eff. 8-26-19.)

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1 (110 ILCS 991/25)
2 Sec. 25. Operation of the Student Investment Account. The
3State Treasurer may: originate, guarantee, acquire, and
4service education loans or refinance loans; facilitate such
5arrangements between borrowers and eligible lenders; and
6perform such other acts as may be necessary or desirable in
7connection with the education loans or refinance loans. The
8State Treasurer may receive, hold, and invest moneys paid into
9the Student Investment Account and take such other actions as
10are necessary to operate the Student Investment Account. The
11State Treasurer may invest in, and enter into contracts with,
12institutions that provide education loans or refinance loans.
13The State Treasurer may also: enter into income share
14agreements with participants; facilitate such arrangements
15between participants and eligible income share agreement
16providers; and perform such other acts as may be necessary or
17desirable in connection with such income share agreements. The
18State Treasurer may also deposit funds with financial
19institutions that provide education loans or refinance loans.
20(Source: P.A. 101-586, eff. 8-26-19.)
21 (110 ILCS 991/30)
22 Sec. 30. Administration of the Student Investment Account.
23The State Treasurer may enter into such contracts and
24guarantee agreements as are necessary to operate the Student

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1Investment Account with eligible lenders, financial
2institutions, institutions of higher education, income share
3agreement providers, individuals, corporations, and qualified
4income share agreement or loan origination and servicing
5organizations and with any governmental entity, including the
6Illinois Student Assistance Commission, and with any agency or
7instrumentality of the United States. The State Treasurer is
8authorized to establish specific criteria governing the
9eligibility of entities to participate in its programs, the
10making of income share agreements or education loans or
11refinance loans, provisions for default, the establishment of
12default reserve funds, the purchase of default insurance, the
13provision of prudent debt service reserves, and the furnishing
14by participating entities of such additional guarantees of the
15income share agreements or education loans or refinance loans
16as the State Treasurer shall determine.
17(Source: P.A. 101-586, eff. 8-26-19.)
18 (110 ILCS 991/35)
19 Sec. 35. Fees. The State Treasurer may shall establish
20fees to cover the costs of administration, recordkeeping,
21marketing, and investment management related to the Student
22Investment Account. The State Treasurer may pay eligible
23lenders, income share agreement providers, financial
24institutions, institutions of higher education, individuals,
25corporations, qualified income share agreement or loan

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1origination and servicing organizations, governmental
2entities, and any agencies or instrumentalities of the United
3States an administrative fee in connection with services
4provided pursuant to the Student Investment Account in such
5amounts, at such times, and in such manner as may be prescribed
6by the State Treasurer.
7(Source: P.A. 101-586, eff. 8-26-19.)
8 (110 ILCS 991/40)
9 Sec. 40. Insurance. The State Treasurer or his or her
10designee may charge and collect premiums for insurance on
11income share agreements or education loans or refinance loans
12and other related charges and pay such insurance premiums or a
13portion thereof and other charges as are prudent.
14(Source: P.A. 101-586, eff. 8-26-19.)
15 (110 ILCS 991/45)
16 Sec. 45. Wage deductions. The State Treasurer may deduct
17from the salary, wages, commissions, and bonuses of any
18employee in this State and, to the extent permitted by the laws
19of the United States and individual states in which an
20employee might reside, any employee outside the State of
21Illinois by serving a notice of administrative wage
22garnishment on an employer, in accordance with rules adopted
23by the State Treasurer, for the recovery of an education loan
24or refinance loan debt or income share agreement owned or

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1serviced by the State Treasurer. Levy must not be made until
2the State Treasurer has caused a demand to be made on the
3employee, in a manner consistent with rules adopted by the
4State Treasurer, such that the employee is provided an
5opportunity to contest the existence or amount of the income
6share agreement or education loan or refinance loan
7obligation.
8(Source: P.A. 101-586, eff. 8-26-19.)
9 (110 ILCS 991/65)
10 Sec. 65. Student Investment Account Assistance Fund. The
11Student Investment Account Assistance Fund may be created as a
12non-appropriated separate and apart trust fund in the State
13Treasury. Moneys in the Student Investment Account Assistance
14Fund may be used by the State Treasurer to provide assistance
15to qualifying borrowers or income share agreement
16participants. The State Treasurer may deposit a portion of the
17earnings of the investments in the Student Investment Account
18and a portion of any administrative fees, and the proceeds
19thereof, collected pursuant to Section 35 into the Student
20Investment Account Assistance Fund.
21(Source: P.A. 101-586, eff. 8-26-19.)

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1 INDEX
2 Statutes amended in order of appearance