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110 ILCS 947/60

(110 ILCS 947/60)

Sec. 60.

Grants for dependents of Department of Corrections employees who are killed
or who become a person with a permanent disability in the line of duty. Any spouse, natural child, legally
adopted child, or child in the legal custody of an employee of the Department
of Corrections who is assigned to a security position with the Department with
responsibility for inmates of any correctional institution under the
jurisdiction of the Department and who is killed or who becomes a person with a permanent disability with
90% to 100% disability in the line of duty is entitled to 8 semesters or 12
quarters of full payment of tuition and mandatory fees at any State-supported
Illinois institution of higher learning for either full or part-time study, or
the equivalent of 8 semesters or 12 quarters of payment of tuition and
mandatory fees at the rate
established by the Commission for private institutions in the State of
Illinois, provided the recipient is maintaining satisfactory academic
progress. This benefit may be used for undergraduate or graduate study.
Beneficiaries need not be Illinois residents at the time of enrollment in order
to receive this grant. With respect to disabled employees of the Department of Corrections, children need not be born, legally adopted, or in the legal custody of the employee before the disability occurred in order to receive this grant. The benefits of this Section shall be administered by
and paid out of funds available to the Commission and shall accrue to the bona
fide applicant without the requirement of demonstrating financial need to
qualify for those benefits.

(Source: P.A. 100-673, eff. 8-3-18; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)