Bill Text: IL SB0457 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the University of Illinois Act. With regard to scholarships for children of veterans, provides that preference for scholarships shall be given to the children of veterans who were police officers or fire officers and were killed in the line of duty while employed by, or in the voluntary service of, this State or any local public entity in this State. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0457 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB0457-Engrossed.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 University of Illinois Act is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 9 as follows:
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| 6 | (110 ILCS 305/9) (from Ch. 144, par. 30)
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| 7 | Sec. 9. Scholarships for children of veterans. For each of | ||||||
| 8 | the following
periods of hostilities, each county shall be | ||||||
| 9 | entitled, annually, to one
honorary scholarship in the | ||||||
| 10 | University, for the benefit of the children of
persons who | ||||||
| 11 | served in the armed forces of the United States, except that | ||||||
| 12 | the total number of scholarships annually granted to recipients | ||||||
| 13 | from each county may not exceed 3: any time between September | ||||||
| 14 | 16, 1940 and the
termination of World War II, any time during | ||||||
| 15 | the national emergency
between June 25, 1950 and January 31, | ||||||
| 16 | 1955, any time during the Viet
Nam conflict between January 1, | ||||||
| 17 | 1961 and May 7, 1975, any time during the siege of Beirut and | ||||||
| 18 | the Grenada Conflict between June 14, 1982 and December 15, | ||||||
| 19 | 1983, or any
time on or after August 2, 1990 and until Congress | ||||||
| 20 | or the President orders that
persons in service are no longer | ||||||
| 21 | eligible for
the Southwest Asia Service Medal, Operation | ||||||
| 22 | Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Preference for | ||||||
| 23 | scholarships shall be
given to the children of persons who are | ||||||
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| 1 | deceased or to the children of persons who have a disability, | ||||||
| 2 | including the children of veterans who were police officers or | ||||||
| 3 | fire officers and were killed in the line of duty while | ||||||
| 4 | employed by, or in the voluntary service of, this State or any | ||||||
| 5 | local public entity in this State. Such scholarships shall be
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| 6 | granted to such pupils as shall, upon public examination, | ||||||
| 7 | conducted as
the board of trustees of the University may | ||||||
| 8 | determine, be decided to
have attained the greatest proficiency | ||||||
| 9 | in the branches of learning
usually taught in the secondary | ||||||
| 10 | schools, and who shall be of good moral
character, and not less | ||||||
| 11 | than 15 years of age. Such pupils, so selected,
shall be | ||||||
| 12 | entitled to receive, without charge for tuition, instruction in
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| 13 | any or all departments of the University for a term of at least | ||||||
| 14 | 4
consecutive years. Such pupils shall conform, in all | ||||||
| 15 | respects, to the
rules and regulations of the University, | ||||||
| 16 | established for the government
of the pupils in attendance.
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| 17 | (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 99-377, eff. 8-17-15; | ||||||
| 18 | 99-642, eff. 7-28-16.)
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| 19 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 20 | becoming law.
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