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

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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-Enrolled.html

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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 Sections 55 and 60 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, children need not to be born, legally
adopted, or in the legal custody of the officer 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

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fees at the rate established by the Commission for private
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.)
(110 ILCS 947/60)
Sec. 60. Grants for dependents of Department of Corrections
employees who are killed or who become a person with a
permanent disability in the line of duty. Any spouse, natural
child, legally adopted child, or child in the legal custody of
an employee of the Department of Corrections who is assigned to
a security position with the Department with responsibility for
inmates of any correctional institution under the jurisdiction
of the Department and who is killed or who becomes a person
with a permanent disability with 90% to 100% disability in the
line of duty is entitled to 8 semesters or 12 quarters of full
payment of tuition and mandatory fees at any State-supported
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 institutions in the

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State of Illinois, provided the recipient is maintaining
satisfactory academic progress. This benefit may be used for
undergraduate or graduate study. Beneficiaries need not be
Illinois residents at the time of enrollment in order to
receive this grant. With respect to disabled employees of the
Department of Corrections, children need not to be born,
legally adopted, or in the legal custody of the employee before
the disability occurred in order to receive this grant. 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.