(5 ILCS 385/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 3551)
Sec. 1.
Definitions.
As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Educational loan" means any loan guaranteed by the State
Scholarship Commission under the Higher Education Student Assistance Law,
any education loan made by an institution of higher education from the
proceeds of a loan to the institution by the Illinois Independent Higher
Education Loan Authority under the Illinois Independent Higher Education
Loan Authority Act, or any other loan from public funds
made for the purpose of financing an individual's attendance at an
institution of higher education.
(b) "State agency" means any officer, board, commission or agency
created by the Constitution, whether in the executive, legislative or
judicial branch, but other than the circuit court; any officer,
department, board, commission, agency, institution, authority,
university, body politic or corporate of the State; any administrative
unit or corporate outgrowth of the State government which is created by
or pursuant to statute, other than units of local government and their
officers, school districts and boards of election commissioners; or any
administrative unit or corporate outgrowth of the above or as may be
created by executive order of the Governor.
(Source: P.A. 85-827.)
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