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SB2765sam001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Dale A. Righter

Filed: 2/19/2014

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2765

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2765 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Eastern Illinois University Law is amended
5by changing Section 10-92 as follows:
 
6    (110 ILCS 665/10-92)
7    (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2019)
8    Sec. 10-92. Tuition affordability discount waiver
9limitation pilot program.
10    (a) The General Assembly makes all of the following
11findings:
12        (1) Both access and affordability are important points
13    in the Illinois Public Agenda for College and Career
14    Success.
15        (2) This State is in the top quartile with respect to
16    the percentage of family income needed to pay for college.

 

 

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1        (3) Research suggests that as loan amounts increase,
2    versus grants-in-aid, the probability of college
3    attendance decreases.
4        (4) There is further research indicating socioeconomic
5    status may affect the willingness of students to use loans
6    to attend college.
7        (5) Strategic use of tuition discounting waivers will
8    decrease the amount of loans that students must use to pay
9    for tuition.
10        (6) A modest, individually tailored tuition discount
11    waiver can make the difference in choosing to attend
12    college and would enhance college access for low (up to
13    150% of the federal poverty level) and middle income (151%
14    to 300% of the federal poverty level) families.
15        (7) Even if the federally calculated financial need for
16    college attendance is met, the federally determined
17    Expected Family Contribution can still be a daunting
18    amount.
19        (8) This State is the second largest exporter of
20    students in the country.
21        (9) Illinois students need to be kept in this State.
22    State universities in other states have adopted pricing and
23    incentives that make college expenses for residents of this
24    State less than in this State.
25        (10) A mechanism is needed to stop the outflow of
26    Illinois students to institutions in other states,

 

 

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1    assisting in State efforts to maintain and educate a highly
2    trained workforce.
3        (11) By being competitive on costs of attendance, this
4    State can bring out-of-state students to this State.
5        (12) The pilot program established under this Section
6    will allow Eastern Illinois University to compete for
7    highly qualified students who may reside in other states by
8    mitigating the effect of cost differences.
9        (13) Modest tuition discounts waivers, individually
10    targeted and tailored, result in enhanced revenue for
11    university programs.
12        (14) By increasing Eastern Illinois University's
13    capacity to strategically use tuition discounting waivers,
14    the University will be capable of creating enhanced tuition
15    revenue by increasing enrollment yields.
16        (15) The Board of Higher Education's current
17    institutional tuition waiver limitation is 3% of total
18    available undergraduate tuition revenue.
19    (b) The Board shall establish a pilot program to increase
20the Board of Higher Education's institutional tuition waiver
21limitation for the university over a 4-year period to increase
22access to college and make college more affordable for
23undergraduate students. Under the pilot program, the
24institutional tuition waiver limitation shall be increased by 2
25percentage points in the 2012-2013 academic year, 2 percentage
26points in the 2013-2014 academic year, 2 percentage points in

 

 

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1the 2014-2015 academic year, and one percentage point in the
22015-2016 academic year, resulting in an institutional tuition
3waiver limitation of 10% in the fourth year of the pilot
4program and thereafter.
5    (c) The pilot program shall require that students who
6receive a tuition discount waiver under the pilot program be
7accepted to the university through normal admissions standards
8and processes. Individual tuition discounts waivers granted
9under the pilot program must not exceed $2,500 per academic
10year. The pilot program shall provide a maximum of one discount
11waiver per academic year for a maximum of 4 years to each
12student in the pilot program who maintains satisfactory
13academic progress. The pilot program shall be terminated after
14the 2015-2016 academic year, with no new students receiving
15waivers. However, notwithstanding the Board of Higher
16Education's institutional tuition waiver limitation, existing
17students receiving waivers under the pilot program are eligible
18to maintain those waivers, with satisfactory academic
19progress, under the 4-year limitation, after the 2015-2016
20academic year due to maintenance of effort within their 4-year
21window. Sunset dates for discounted waiver support shall be
22based upon the first academic year in which a student receives
23a discount waiver. The sunset dates are as follows for each
24annual cohort of pilot program participants:
25        (1) Cohort 1: the beginning year is 2012-2013 and the
26    terminal year is 2015-2016.

 

 

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1        (2) Cohort 2: the beginning year is 2013-2014 and the
2    terminal year is 2016-2017.
3        (3) Cohort 3: the beginning year is 2014-2015 and the
4    terminal year is 2017-2018.
5        (4) Cohort 4: the beginning year is 2015-2016 and the
6    terminal year is 2018-2019.
7    (d) Every 2 years, the The Board shall annually report to
8the Board of Higher Education on the pilot program's impact on
9tuition revenue, enrollment goals, and increasing access and
10affordability on such dates as the Board of Higher Education
11shall determine.
12    (e) The Board of Higher Education may adopt any rules that
13are necessary to implement this Section.
14    (f) (Blank). This Section is repealed on July 1, 2019.
15(Source: P.A. 97-290, eff. 8-10-11.)".