Bill Text: IL HB5567 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Provides that the Board's master plan shall include the area of middle-skill workforce needs. Provides that the master plan's accessibility measures shall include access to technical and community colleges, apprenticeship programs, and university course offerings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-22 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5567 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB5567-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Board of Higher Education Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 6 as follows:
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6 | (110 ILCS 205/6) (from Ch. 144, par. 186)
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7 | Sec. 6.
The Board shall analyze the present and future | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | aims, needs , and
requirements of higher education in the State | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | of Illinois and prepare a
master plan for the development, | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | expansion, integration, coordination , and
efficient | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | utilization of the facilities, curricula , and standards of | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | higher
education for the public institutions of higher | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | education in the areas of
teaching, research , middle-skill | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | workforce needs, and public service. The master plan shall also | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | include higher education affordability and accessibility | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | measures , including access to technical and community | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | colleges, apprenticeship programs, and university course | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | offerings . The Board shall formulate the master
plan and | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | prepare and submit to the General Assembly and the Governor | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | drafts
of proposed legislation to effectuate the plan. The | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | Board shall engage in a
continuing study, an analysis and | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | evaluation of the master plan so
developed and it shall be its | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | responsibility to recommend, from time to
time as it |
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1 | determines, amendments and modifications of any master plan
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2 | enacted by the General Assembly.
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3 | (Source: P.A. 96-319, eff. 1-1-10.)
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