Public Act 095-0272
 		





SB0313 Enrolled
LRB095 03355 NHT 23359 b






    AN ACT concerning education.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:

 
    Section 5. The Board of Higher Education Act is amended  by 
changing Section 9.07 as follows:
 



    (110 ILCS 205/9.07)  (from Ch. 144, par. 189.07)



    Sec. 9.07. Admission standards. 

    (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), to

establish minimum admission standards for public community 
colleges,
colleges and state universities.  However, 
notwithstanding any other
provision of this Section or any 
other law of this State, the minimum admission
standards 
established by the Board shall not directly or indirectly 
authorize
or require a State college or university to 
discriminate in the admissions
process against an applicant for 
admission because of the applicant's
enrollment in a charter 
school
established under
Article 27A of the School Code.  
Admission standards for out-of-state
students may be higher 
than for Illinois residents.

    (b) Implementation of the new statewide minimum admission 
requirements
and standards for public colleges and 
universities in Illinois established
and announced by the Board 
in December, 1985 shall be deferred as provided
in this 
subsection.  The Board shall not attempt to implement or 
otherwise
effect adoption and establishment of those minimum 
admission requirements
and standards in any public community 
college, college or State university
prior to the fall of 1993, 
and no public community college, college or
State university 
shall be under any duty or obligation to implement,
establish 
or otherwise apply those minimum admission requirements and

standards to any entering freshmen prior to the fall of 1993.

The Board of Higher Education shall provide the State 
Superintendent of
Education, on or before January 1, 1990, 
descriptions of
course content, and such other criteria as are 
necessary to determine and
certify whether all school districts 
maintaining grades 9-12 are offering
courses which satisfy the 
minimum admission requirements and standards
established and 
announced by the Board.
In addition, there shall be established 
a 9 member committee composed
of 3 members selected by the 
Board of Higher Education, 3 members selected
by the State 
Superintendent of Education and 3 members selected by the

President of the Illinois Vocational Association.  The 
committee shall be
appointed within 30 days after the effective 
date of this amendatory Act.
It shall be the duty and 
responsibility of the committee to identify and
develop courses 
and curricula in the vocational education area which meet
the 
minimum admission requirements and standards to be established 
and
implemented under this Section.  The first meeting of the 
committee shall
be called by the Executive Director of the 
Board of Higher Education
within 10 days after the committee is 
appointed.  At its first meeting the
committee shall organize 
and elect a chairperson.  The committee's report
shall be 
prepared and submitted by the committee to the Board of Higher

Education, the Illinois State Board of Education and the 
General Assembly
by April 1, 1989.

    (c) By March 1, 1980, the Boards shall develop guidelines 
which:  (1) place
the emphasis on postsecondary remedial 
programs at Public Community Colleges
and (2) reduces the role 
of the state universities in offering remedial
programs.  By 
June 30, 1981, the Board shall report to the General Assembly

the progress made toward this transition in the emphasis on 
remedial programs
at the postsecondary level and any 
legislative action that it deems
appropriate. Under the 
guidelines, if a State university determines that a student 
needs remedial coursework, then the university must require 
that the student complete the remedial coursework before 
pursuing his or her major course of study.


(Source: P.A. 89-450, eff. 4-10-96.)


 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.