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91_HB0325enr HB0325 Enrolled LRB9101353NTsb 1 AN ACT relating to public university tuition statements. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. Short title. This Act may be cited as the 5 Public University Tuition Statement Act. 6 Section 10. Definition. In this Act, "public 7 university" means and includes Chicago State University, 8 Eastern Illinois University, Governors State University, 9 Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois University, 10 Northern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University, 11 Western Illinois University, the University of Illinois, and 12 any other public university established or authorized by the 13 General Assembly. 14 Section 15. Tuition statements. Each year, using data 15 from the preceding fiscal year, public universities shall 16 include as part of an undergraduate student's tuition bill or 17 other statement of tuition charges or as a separate 18 attachment to the bill or charge the following statement: 19 For Fiscal Year ....., the General Assembly and the 20 Governor authorized the aggregate amount of $..... to be 21 appropriated from the General Revenue Fund and the 22 Education Assistance Fund for operation of the State's 23 public universities. For Fiscal Year ....., each 24 resident undergraduate full-time public university 25 student received an average tuition subsidy of $..... 26 from the State of Illinois, which was applied to offset 27 the full cost of instruction. 28 The average resident tuition subsidy rate from the State for 29 each undergraduate resident full-time public university 30 student shall be determined annually by the Illinois Board of HB0325 Enrolled -2- LRB9101353NTsb 1 Higher Education using the following formula: the average 2 total undergraduate instructional costs per full-time 3 equivalent undergraduate student at Illinois public 4 universities minus the average full-time undergraduate 5 resident tuition rate at Illinois public universities. For 6 the purposes of this calculation, a full time equivalent 7 undergraduate student shall be represented by 30 8 undergraduate hours taken in a fiscal year. 9 The Illinois Board of Higher Education shall provide the 10 calculation for the average tuition subsidy for the preceding 11 fiscal year to all public universities by March 1 of each 12 year. 13 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 14 1, 1999.