Bill Text: IL SR1195 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges an immediate adoption of a State budget that will provide security for students dependent on State financial aid, ensure financial stability to community colleges and public universities, and deliver to Illinois public higher education the resources needed to accelerate and sustain the State's economic health.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-07-31 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SR1195 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SR1195-Introduced.html
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The Illinois Public Agenda for College and Career | ||||||
| 3 | Success requires
increased academic achievement, college | ||||||
| 4 | affordability, and college completions by more
Illinoisans in | ||||||
| 5 | order for Illinois to achieve economic growth and vitality; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Effective and quality college education requires | ||||||
| 7 | State funding for the
operations of public institutions of | ||||||
| 8 | higher education and financial assistance for low-income | ||||||
| 9 | students to achieve college degrees if Illinois is to increase | ||||||
| 10 | the number of citizens
with a postsecondary degree to 60% by | ||||||
| 11 | 2025 to meet workforce demands; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, The Illinois Board of Higher Education is keenly | ||||||
| 13 | aware of the
uncertainty the lack of a Fiscal Year 2016 budget | ||||||
| 14 | is creating for Illinois college students,
professors, and | ||||||
| 15 | staff at Illinois' 48 community colleges and 12 public | ||||||
| 16 | universities,
some of whose very existence is being threatened; | ||||||
| 17 | and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, The Illinois Board of Higher Education is | ||||||
| 19 | sincerely concerned that the 125,000 Illinois college
students | ||||||
| 20 | that are eligible for the Monetary Award Program have not | ||||||
| 21 | received state MAP
funding; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, The budget uncertainty is threatening the quality | ||||||
| 2 | and talent in universities by encouraging students, faculty, | ||||||
| 3 | and staff to seek careers outside of the State,
imposing | ||||||
| 4 | long-term damage on our capacity to serve the State; therefore, | ||||||
| 5 | be it
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| 6 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 7 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we strongly urge an
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| 8 | immediate adoption of a State budget that will provide security | ||||||
| 9 | for students dependent on
State financial aid, ensure financial | ||||||
| 10 | stability to community colleges and public
universities, and | ||||||
| 11 | deliver to Illinois public higher education the resources | ||||||
| 12 | needed to
accelerate and sustain the State's economic health; | ||||||
| 13 | and be it further
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| 14 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 15 | delivered to the Governor, the Leaders
of the General Assembly, | ||||||
| 16 | and the leadership of the higher education community.
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