Sen. Chapin Rose

Filed: 3/4/2013

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1592

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1592 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Higher Education Student Assistance Act is
5amended by changing Sections 35 and 38 as follows:
 
6    (110 ILCS 947/35)
7    Sec. 35. Monetary award program.
8    (a) The Commission shall, each year, receive and consider
9applications for grant assistance under this Section. Subject
10to a separate appropriation for such purposes, an applicant is
11eligible for a grant under this Section when the Commission
12finds that the applicant:
13        (1) is a resident of this State and a citizen or
14    permanent resident of the United States; and
15        (2) in the absence of grant assistance, will be
16    deterred by financial considerations from completing an

 

 

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1    educational program at the qualified institution of his or
2    her choice.
3    (b) The Commission shall award renewals only upon the
4student's application and upon the Commission's finding that
5the applicant:
6        (1) has remained a student in good standing;
7        (2) remains a resident of this State; and
8        (3) is in a financial situation that continues to
9    warrant assistance.
10However, if a recipient of a grant under this Section is not
11permitted to continue attending an institution because he or
12she is not earning the minimum grades needed to continue to
13attend the institution, then that person may not receive a
14grant under this Section during the following academic year.
15The Commission may adopt any rules necessary for the
16enforcement of this prohibition.
17    (c) All grants shall be applicable only to tuition and
18necessary fee costs. The Commission shall determine the grant
19amount for each student, which shall not exceed the smallest of
20the following amounts:
21        (1) subject to appropriation, $5,468 for fiscal year
22    2009, $5,968 for fiscal year 2010, and $6,468 for fiscal
23    year 2011 and each fiscal year thereafter, or such lesser
24    amount as the Commission finds to be available, during an
25    academic year;
26        (2) the amount which equals 2 semesters or 3 quarters

 

 

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1    tuition and other necessary fees required generally by the
2    institution of all full-time undergraduate students; or
3        (3) such amount as the Commission finds to be
4    appropriate in view of the applicant's financial
5    resources.
6    Subject to appropriation, the maximum grant amount for
7students not subject to subdivision (1) of this subsection (c)
8must be increased by the same percentage as any increase made
9by law to the maximum grant amount under subdivision (1) of
10this subsection (c).
11    "Tuition and other necessary fees" as used in this Section
12include the customary charge for instruction and use of
13facilities in general, and the additional fixed fees charged
14for specified purposes, which are required generally of
15nongrant recipients for each academic period for which the
16grant applicant actually enrolls, but do not include fees
17payable only once or breakage fees and other contingent
18deposits which are refundable in whole or in part. The
19Commission may prescribe, by rule not inconsistent with this
20Section, detailed provisions concerning the computation of
21tuition and other necessary fees.
22    (d) No applicant, including those presently receiving
23scholarship assistance under this Act, is eligible for monetary
24award program consideration under this Act after receiving a
25baccalaureate degree or the equivalent of 135 semester credit
26hours of award payments.

 

 

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1    (e) The Commission, in determining the number of grants to
2be offered, shall take into consideration past experience with
3the rate of grant funds unclaimed by recipients. The Commission
4shall notify applicants that grant assistance is contingent
5upon the availability of appropriated funds.
6    The Commission shall request that the Illinois Association
7of Student Financial Aid Administrators, or a committee
8designated by this association from among its membership, make
9recommendations on possible changes to how the Commission
10determines the number of grants to be offered and to whom they
11are offered.
12    (f) The Commission may request appropriations for deposit
13into the Monetary Award Program Reserve Fund. Monies deposited
14into the Monetary Award Program Reserve Fund may be expended
15exclusively for one purpose: to make Monetary Award Program
16grants to eligible students. Amounts on deposit in the Monetary
17Award Program Reserve Fund may not exceed 2% of the current
18annual State appropriation for the Monetary Award Program.
19    The purpose of the Monetary Award Program Reserve Fund is
20to enable the Commission each year to assure as many students
21as possible of their eligibility for a Monetary Award Program
22grant and to do so before commencement of the academic year.
23Moneys deposited in this Reserve Fund are intended to enhance
24the Commission's management of the Monetary Award Program,
25minimizing the necessity, magnitude, and frequency of
26adjusting award amounts and ensuring that the annual Monetary

 

 

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1Award Program appropriation can be fully utilized.
2    (g) The Commission shall determine the eligibility of and
3make grants to applicants enrolled at qualified for-profit
4institutions in accordance with the criteria set forth in this
5Section. The eligibility of applicants enrolled at such
6for-profit institutions shall be limited as follows:
7        (1) Beginning with the academic year 1997, only to
8    eligible first-time freshmen and first-time transfer
9    students who have attained an associate degree.
10        (2) Beginning with the academic year 1998, only to
11    eligible freshmen students, transfer students who have
12    attained an associate degree, and students who receive a
13    grant under paragraph (1) for the academic year 1997 and
14    whose grants are being renewed for the academic year 1998.
15        (3) Beginning with the academic year 1999, to all
16    eligible students.
17(Source: P.A. 95-917, eff. 8-26-08.)
 
18    (110 ILCS 947/38)
19    Sec. 38. Monetary award program accountability.
20    (a) The Illinois Student Assistance Commission is directed
21to assess the educational persistence of monetary award program
22recipients. An assessment under this Section shall include an
23analysis of such factors as undergraduate educational goals,
24chosen field of study, retention rates, and expected time to
25complete a degree. The assessment also shall include an

 

 

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1analysis of the academic success of monetary award program
2recipients through a review of measures that are typically
3associated with academic success, such as grade point average,
4satisfactory academic progress, and credit hours earned. Each
5analysis should take into consideration student class level,
6dependency types, and the type of higher education institution
7at which each monetary award program recipient is enrolled. The
8Commission shall report its findings to the General Assembly
9and the Board of Higher Education by February 1, 1999 and at
10least every 2 years thereafter.
11    (b) To demonstrate the value of the monetary award program
12and determine where improvements could be made, institutions
13shall provide information concerning grant recipients to the
14Commission if requested, including without limitation the
15following:
16        (1) Completion and graduation rates.
17        (2) Courses attempted versus courses completed.
18        (3) The number of remedial courses undertaken, the
19    names of these courses, and the success rate of these
20    courses.
21        (4) Chosen fields of study.
22        (5) The receipt of institutional financial aid, how
23    much of that aid is merit-only aid, how much is need-based
24    aid, and how this aid dovetails with State and federal
25    financial aid.
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1Student Financial Aid Administrators to develop guidelines for
2the information to be provided under this subsection (b).
3    Each year, the Commission shall compile the information
4provided under this subsection (b) in a report to be submitted
5to the General Assembly and the Governor.
6(Source: P.A. 90-486, eff. 8-17-97; 90-488, eff. 8-17-97.)".