Bill Text: IL HB5591 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarships.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5591 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB5591-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, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 30-16.1 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/30-16.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-16.1)
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| 7 | Sec. 30-16.1. Purpose.
The
The General Assembly has found | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | and hereby declares that it is essential
for the national | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | defense and for the defense of the State of Illinois that
among | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | those residents of this State receiving higher education, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | provisions
should be made for Reserve Officer's Training Corps | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | training, in order
to provide officers for the several Armed | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Forces
of the United
States of America and to that end, that | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | scholarships should be furnished to
eligible residents, in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | order to encourage their participation in the
Reserve Officer's | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | Training Corps programs. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | (Source: P.A. 79-768.)
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