Bill Text: IL HB1643 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the University of Illinois Act. Beginning with the 2023-2024 academic year, provides that the Board of Trustees shall give priority admission to residents of this State. Based upon academic year, sets forth the percentage of the University's freshman class of undergraduate students that must be State residents. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-16 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Chris Miller [HB1643 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1643-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1643 Introduced , by Rep. Blaine Wilhour SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
110 ILCS 305/8 from Ch. 144, par. 29
Amends the University of Illinois Act. Beginning with the 2023-2024 academic year, provides that the Board of Trustees shall give priority admission to residents of this State. Based upon academic year, sets forth the percentage of the University's freshman class of undergraduate students that must be State residents. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The University of Illinois Act is amended by
changing Section 8 as follows:
(110 ILCS 305/8) (from Ch. 144, par. 29)
Sec. 8. Admissions.
(a) (Blank).
(b) No new student shall be admitted to instruction in any
of the departments or colleges of the University unless such
student also has satisfactorily completed:
(1) at least 15 units of high school coursework from
the following 5 categories:
(A) 4 years of English (emphasizing written and
oral communications and literature), of which up to 2
years may be collegiate level instruction;
(B) 3 years of social studies (emphasizing history
and government);
(C) 3 years of mathematics (introductory through
advanced algebra, geometry, trigonometry, or
fundamentals of computer programming);
(D) 3 years of science (laboratory sciences or
agricultural sciences); and

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(E) 2 years of electives in foreign language
(which may be deemed to include American Sign
Language), music, career and technical education,
agricultural education, or art;
(2) except that institutions may admit individual
applicants if the institution determines through
assessment or through evaluation based on learning
outcomes of the coursework taken, including career and
technical education courses and courses taken in a charter
school established under Article 27A of the School Code,
that the applicant demonstrates knowledge and skills
substantially equivalent to the knowledge and skills
expected to be acquired in the high school courses
required for admission. The Board of Trustees of the
University of Illinois shall not discriminate in the
University's admissions process against an applicant for
admission because of the applicant's enrollment in a
charter school established under Article 27A of the School
Code. Institutions may also admit 1) applicants who did
not have an opportunity to complete the minimum college
preparatory curriculum in high school, and 2)
educationally disadvantaged applicants who are admitted to
the formal organized special assistance programs that are
tailored to the needs of such students, providing that in
either case, the institution incorporates in the
applicant's baccalaureate curriculum courses or other

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academic activities that compensate for course
deficiencies; and
(3) except that up to 3 of the 15 units of coursework
required by paragraph (1) of this subsection may be
distributed by deducting no more than one unit each from
the categories of social studies, mathematics, sciences
and electives and completing those 3 units in any of the 5
categories of coursework described in paragraph (1).
(c) When allocating funds, local boards of education shall
recognize their obligation to their students to offer the
coursework required by subsection (b).
(d) A student who has graduated from high school and has
scored within the University's accepted range on the ACT or
SAT shall not be required to take a high school equivalency
test as a prerequisite to admission.
(e) The Board of Trustees shall establish an admissions
process in which honorably discharged veterans are permitted
to submit an application for admission to the University as a
freshman student enrolling in the spring semester if the
veteran was on active duty during the fall semester. The
University may request that the Department of Veterans'
Affairs confirm the status of an applicant as an honorably
discharged veteran who was on active duty during the fall
semester.
(f) Beginning with the 2023-2024 academic year, the Board
of Trustees shall give priority admission to residents of this

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State as follows:
(1) for the 2023-2024 academic year, 79% of the
University's freshman class of undergraduate students
shall be residents of this State;
(2) for the 2024-2025 academic year, 82.5% of the
University's freshman class of undergraduate students
shall be residents of this State;
(3) for the 2025-2026 academic year, 86.5% of the
University's freshman class of undergraduate students
shall be residents of this State; and
(4) for the 2026-2027 academic year and each academic
year thereafter, 90% of the University's freshman class of
undergraduate students shall be residents of this State.
(Source: P.A. 102-403, eff. 1-1-22; 102-404, eff. 1-1-22.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.