100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB3190

 

Introduced 2/15/2018, by Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
110 ILCS 27/17 new

    Amends the Dual Credit Quality Act. Requires a public university or community college, jointly with a high school, to grant dual credit to a student who completes a course under the Illinois Articulation Initiative General Education Core Curriculum package adopted by the public university or community college under the Illinois Articulation Initiative Act. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Dual Credit Quality Act is amended by adding
5Section 17 as follows:
 
6    (110 ILCS 27/17 new)
7    Sec. 17. Illinois Articulation Initiative; dual credit. A
8public university or community college, jointly with a high
9school, shall grant dual credit to a student who completes a
10course under the Illinois Articulation Initiative General
11Education Core Curriculum package adopted by the public
12university or community college under the Illinois
13Articulation Initiative Act. A student may not receive more
14than 60 hours of dual credit under this Section.
 
15    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16becoming law.