Bill Text: IL HB4467 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. In a Section concerning a police officer or fire officer survivor grant, provides that, with respect to disabled police and fire officers, natural children need not be born before the disability occurred in order to receive the grant. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-4)

Status: (Passed) 2018-08-03 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0673 [HB4467 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB4467-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB4467 Introduced , by Rep. Frances Ann Hurley SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
110 ILCS 947/55
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. In a Section concerning a police officer or fire officer survivor grant, provides that, with respect to disabled police and fire officers, natural children need not be born before the disability occurred in order to receive the grant. 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 Higher Education Student Assistance Act is
amended by changing Section 55 as follows:
(110 ILCS 947/55)
Sec. 55. Police officer or fire officer survivor grant.
Grants shall be provided for any spouse, natural child, legally
adopted child, or child in the legal custody of police officers
and fire officers who are killed or who become a person with a
permanent disability with 90% to 100% disability in the line of
duty while employed by, or in the voluntary service of, this
State or any local public entity in this State. Beneficiaries
need not be Illinois residents at the time of enrollment in
order to receive this grant. With respect to disabled police
and fire officers, natural children need not be born before the
disability occurred in order to receive this grant.
Beneficiaries are entitled to 8 semesters or 12 quarters of
full payment of tuition and mandatory fees at any
State-sponsored Illinois institution of higher learning for
either full or part-time study, or the equivalent of 8
semesters or 12 quarters of payment of tuition and mandatory
fees at the rate established by the Commission for private

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institutions in the State of Illinois, provided the recipient
is maintaining satisfactory academic progress. This benefit
may be used for undergraduate or graduate study. The benefits
of this Section shall be administered by and paid out of funds
available to the Commission and shall accrue to the bona fide
applicant without the requirement of demonstrating financial
need to qualify for those benefits.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.