96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB1358


 
Introduced 2/10/2009, by Sen. Carole Pankau
 
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110 ILCS 947/55









    Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act.  Makes changes to the police officer or fire officer survivor grant provisions. Removes the requirement that the police officer or fire officer be 90% to 100% disabled. Allows survivors of peace officers to also receive a grant. Effective immediately.
















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    AN ACT concerning education.

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


 
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    Section 5. The Higher Education Student Assistance Act is 
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amended  by changing Section 55 as follows:
 



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    (110 ILCS 947/55)



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    Sec. 55. Police officer, peace officer, or fire officer 
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survivor grant. Grants shall be
provided for any spouse, 
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natural child, legally adopted child, or child in
the legal 
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custody of police officers, peace officers, as defined under 
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the Criminal Code of 1961, and fire officers killed or 
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permanently
disabled with 90% to 100% disability in the line of 
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duty while employed by, or
in the voluntary service of, this 
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State or any local public entity in this
State. Beneficiaries 
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need not be Illinois residents at the time of enrollment
in 
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order to receive this grant.  Beneficiaries are entitled to 8 
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semesters or
12 quarters of full payment of tuition and 
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mandatory fees at any
State-sponsored Illinois institution of 
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higher learning for either full or
part-time study, or the 
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equivalent of 8 semesters or 12 quarters of payment
of
tuition 
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and
mandatory fees at the rate established by the Commission 
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for private
institutions in the State of Illinois, provided the 
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recipient is maintaining
satisfactory  academic progress.  This 
 


 






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benefit may be used for undergraduate or
graduate study.  The 
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benefits of this Section shall be administered by and paid
out 
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of funds available to the Commission and shall accrue to the 
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bona fide
applicant without the requirement of demonstrating 
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financial need to qualify
for those benefits. 

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(Source: P.A. 91-670, eff. 12-22-99.)

 

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