HB5567 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB5567

Introduced , by Rep. Elgie R. Sims, Jr.

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

110 ILCS 205/6

from Ch. 144, par. 186

Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Provides that the Board's master plan shall include the area of middle-skill workforce needs. Provides that the master plan's accessibility measures shall include access to technical and community colleges, apprenticeship programs, and university course offerings.

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 Board of Higher Education Act is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:

(110 ILCS 205/6) (from Ch. 144, par. 186)

Sec. 6. The Board shall analyze the present and future aims, needs, and requirements of higher education in the State of Illinois and prepare a master plan for the development, expansion, integration, coordination, and efficient utilization of the facilities, curricula, and standards of higher education for the public institutions of higher education in the areas of teaching, research, middle-skill workforce needs, and public service. The master plan shall also include higher education affordability and accessibility measures, including access to technical and community colleges, apprenticeship programs, and university course offerings. The Board shall formulate the master plan and prepare and submit to the General Assembly and the Governor drafts of proposed legislation to effectuate the plan. The Board shall engage in a continuing study, an analysis and evaluation of the master plan so developed and it shall be its responsibility to recommend, from time to time as it determines, amendments and modifications of any master plan enacted by the General Assembly.

(Source: P.A. 96-319, eff. 1-1-10.)