HB4257 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB4257

Introduced , by Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

105 ILCS 302/30 new

Amends the College and Career Success for All Students Act. Provides that a student who takes a College Board Advanced Placement examination and receives a score of 3 or higher on the examination is entitled to receive postsecondary level course credit at a public institution of higher education. Requires each public institution of higher education to comply with the same standard of awarding course credit to any student receiving a score of 3 or higher on a College Board Advanced Placement examination and applying the credit to meet a corresponding course requirement for degree completion at that institution of higher education. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning education.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The College and Career Success for All Students Act is amended by adding Section 30 as follows:

(105 ILCS 302/30 new)

Sec. 30. Examination; postsecondary level course credit.

(a) In this Section, "institution of higher education" means a public university or public community college located in this State.

(b) A student who takes a College Board Advanced Placement examination and receives a score of 3 or higher on the examination is entitled to receive postsecondary level course credit at an institution of higher education.

(c) Each institution of higher education shall comply with the same standard of awarding course credit to any student receiving a score of 3 or higher on a College Board Advanced Placement examination and applying the credit to meet a corresponding course requirement for degree completion at that institution of higher education.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.