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91_HB0327
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Sections
2 30-9, 30-10, 30-11, and 30-12.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
6 Sections 30-9, 30-10, 30-11, and 30-12 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/30-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-9)
8 Sec. 30-9. General Assembly scholarship; conditions of
9 admission; award by competitive examination.
10 (a) The provisions of this subsection are subject to
11 subsection (b). Each member of the General Assembly may
12 nominate annually 2 persons of school age and otherwise
13 eligible, from his district; one shall receive a certificate
14 of scholarship in the University of Illinois and the other
15 shall receive a certificate of scholarship in any other State
16 supported university designated by the member. Any member of
17 the General Assembly in making nominations under this Section
18 may designate that his nominee be granted a 4 year
19 scholarship or may instead designate 2 or 4 nominees for that
20 particular scholarship, each to receive a 2 year or a one
21 year scholarship, respectively. The nominee, if a graduate of
22 a school accredited by the University to which nominated,
23 shall be admitted to the university on the same conditions as
24 to educational qualifications as are other graduates of
25 accredited schools. If the nominee is not a graduate of a
26 school accredited by the university to which nominated, he
27 must, before being entitled to the benefits of the
28 scholarship, pass an examination given by the superintendent
29 of schools of the county where he resides at the time stated
30 in Section 30-7 for the competitive examination. The
31 president of each university shall prescribe the rules
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1 governing the examination for scholarship to his university.
2 A member of the General Assembly may award the
3 scholarship by competitive examination conducted under like
4 rules as prescribed in Section 30-7 even though one or more
5 of the applicants are graduates of schools accredited by the
6 university.
7 A member of the General Assembly may delegate to the
8 Illinois Student Assistance Commission the authority to
9 nominate persons for General Assembly scholarships which that
10 member would otherwise be entitled to award, or may direct
11 the Commission to evaluate and make recommendations to the
12 member concerning candidates for such scholarships. In the
13 event a member delegates his nominating authority or directs
14 the Commission to evaluate and make recommendations
15 concerning candidates for General Assembly scholarships, the
16 member shall inform the Commission in writing of the criteria
17 which he wishes the Commission to apply in nominating or
18 recommending candidates. Those criteria may include some or
19 all of the criteria provided in Section 25 of the Higher
20 Education Student Assistance Act. A delegation of authority
21 under this paragraph may be revoked at any time by the
22 member.
23 Failure of a member of the General Assembly to make a
24 nomination in any year shall not cause that scholarship to
25 lapse, but the member may make a nomination for such
26 scholarship at any time thereafter through June 1, 1999;
27 before the expiration of his term, and the person so
28 nominated shall be entitled to the same benefits as holders
29 of other scholarships provided herein. Any such scholarship
30 for which a member has made no nomination on or before June
31 1, 1999 prior to the expiration of the term for which he was
32 elected shall lapse upon the expiration of that term.
33 (b) After June 1, 1999 no person may be nominated to
34 receive any one year, 2 year, 4 year or other scholarship or
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1 certificate of scholarship under this Section, nor may any
2 such scholarship be awarded under this Section after June 1,
3 1999 unless the person was nominated prior to that date to
4 receive that scholarship.
5 (Source: P.A. 87-997.)
6 (105 ILCS 5/30-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-10)
7 Sec. 30-10. Filing nominations; failure to accept or pass
8 ; second nomination.
9 Nominations that are made, under Section 30-9 on or
10 before June 1, 1999 and that show, showing the name and
11 address of the nominee, and the term of the scholarship,
12 whether 4 years, 2 years or one year, must be filed with the
13 State Superintendent of Education if the scholarship is in a
14 university other than the University of Illinois, or with the
15 president of the University of Illinois if the scholarship is
16 in such university, not later than the opening day of the
17 semester or term with which the scholarship is to become
18 effective. The State Superintendent of Education shall
19 forthwith notify the president of the university other than
20 the University of Illinois of such nomination. No valid
21 nomination to any scholarship may be made under Section 30-9
22 after June 1, 1999.
23 If the nominee fails to accept the nomination or, not
24 being a graduate of a school accredited by the university,
25 fails to pass the examination for admission, the president of
26 the university shall at once notify the State Superintendent
27 of Education if the university is other than the University
28 of Illinois. Upon receiving such notification, the State
29 Superintendent of Education shall notify the nominating
30 member, who may, on or before, but not after June 1, 1999,
31 name another person for the scholarship. In the case of a
32 scholarship in the University of Illinois, such notification
33 shall be given by the president thereof to the nominating
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1 member. The second nomination must be received by the State
2 Superintendent of Education or president of the University of
3 Illinois, as the case may be, not later than the middle of
4 the semester or term with which the scholarship was to have
5 become effective under the original nomination in order to
6 become effective as of the opening date of such semester or
7 term otherwise it shall not become effective until the
8 beginning of the next semester or term following the making
9 of the second nomination; provided, that the second
10 nomination must be made, if at all, on or before June 1, 1999
11 or the scholarship shall be deemed to have lapsed by
12 operation of law. Upon receiving such notification of a
13 second nomination on or before June 1, 1999, the State
14 Superintendent of Education shall notify the president of the
15 university of such second nomination. If any person
16 nominated after the effective date of this amendatory Act of
17 1973 to receive a General Assembly scholarship changes his
18 residence to a location outside of the district from which he
19 was nominated, his nominating member may terminate that
20 scholarship at the conclusion of the college year in which he
21 is then enrolled, but after June 1, 1999 no person may be
22 nominated to receive or otherwise be awarded all or any part
23 of the scholarship that is unused or unexpired at the time
24 the scholarship is so terminated. For purposes of this
25 paragraph, a person changes his residence if he registers to
26 vote in a location outside of the district from which he was
27 nominated, but does not change his residence merely by taking
28 off-campus housing or living in a nonuniversity residence.
29 (Source: P.A. 80-278.)
30 (105 ILCS 5/30-11) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-11)
31 Sec. 30-11. Failure to use scholarship; further
32 nominations. If any nominee under Section 30-9 or 30-10
33 discontinues his course of instruction or fails to use the
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1 scholarship, leaving 1, 2, 3, or 4 years thereof unused, the
2 member of the General Assembly may, except as otherwise
3 provided in this Article, nominate some other person eligible
4 under this Article from his district who shall be entitled to
5 the scholarship for the unexpired period thereof; provided
6 that the nomination for the unexpired period of the
7 scholarship must be made, if at all, on or before June 1,
8 1999 or such nomination shall be invalid, and the
9 scholarship and its unexpired period shall be deemed to have
10 lapsed by operation of law. Such appointment to an unexpired
11 scholarship vacated before July 1, 1961, may be made only by
12 the member of the General Assembly who made the original
13 appointment and during the time he is such a member. If a
14 scholarship is vacated on or after July 1, 1961, and the
15 member of the General Assembly who made the original
16 appointment has ceased to be a member, some eligible person
17 may be nominated in the following manner to fill the vacancy:
18 If the original appointment was made by a Senator, such
19 nomination shall be made by the Senator from the same
20 district; if the original appointment was made by a
21 Representative, such nomination shall be made by the
22 Representative from the same district. Every nomination to
23 fill a vacancy must be made on or before June 1, 1999 and
24 accompanied either by a release of the original nominee or if
25 he is dead then an affidavit to that effect by some competent
26 person. The failure of a nominee to register at the
27 university within 20 days after the opening of any semester
28 or term shall be deemed a release by him of the nomination,
29 unless he has been granted a leave of absence in accordance
30 with Section 30-14 or unless his absence is by reason of his
31 entry into the military service of the United States. The
32 university, other than the University of Illinois, shall
33 immediately upon the expiration of 20 days after the
34 beginning of the semester or term notify the State Board of
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1 Education as to the status of each scholarship, who shall
2 forthwith notify the nominating member of any nominee's
3 failure to register or, if the nominating member has ceased
4 to be a member of the General Assembly, shall notify the
5 member or members entitled to make the nomination to fill the
6 vacancy. In the case of a scholarship in the University of
7 Illinois, such notification of vacancy shall be made by the
8 president thereof to the nominating member or his successor
9 as above provided. All nominations to unused or unexpired
10 scholarships, if made on or before June 1, 1999, shall be
11 effective as of the opening of the semester or term of the
12 university during which they are made if they are filed with
13 the university during the first half of the semester or term,
14 otherwise they shall not be effective until the opening of
15 the next following semester or term; provided that no
16 nomination to an unused or unexpired scholarship is valid if
17 made after June 1, 1999, and an unused or unexpired
18 scholarship shall be deemed to have lapsed by operation of
19 law unless the nomination to that unused or unexpired
20 scholarship is made on or before June 1, 1999.
21 (Source: P.A. 82-1003.)
22 (105 ILCS 5/30-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 30-12)
23 Sec. 30-12. Failure to begin or discontinuance of course
24 because of military service.
25 Any nominee, under Sections 30-9, 30-10, or 30-11, who
26 fails to begin or discontinues his course of instruction
27 because of his entry into the military service of the United
28 States, leaving all or a portion of the scholarship unused,
29 may, upon completion of such service, use the scholarship or
30 the unused portion thereof, regardless of whether or not the
31 member of the General Assembly who nominated him is then a
32 member; provided that during the nominee's period of military
33 service no other person may be nominated by such member to
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1 all or any portion of such unused or unfinished scholarship
2 unless the nomination is accompanied either by a release of
3 the original nominee or if he is dead then an affidavit to
4 that effect by some competent person and unless the
5 nomination is made on or before June 1, 1999.
6 (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
7 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
8 becoming law.