Full Text of HB1299 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The University of Illinois Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 9 as follows:
| 6 | | (110 ILCS 305/9) (from Ch. 144, par. 30)
| 7 | | Sec. 9. Scholarships for children of veterans. For each of | 8 | | the following
periods of hostilities, each county shall be | 9 | | entitled, annually, to one
honorary scholarship in the | 10 | | University, for the benefit of the children of
persons who | 11 | | served in the armed forces of the United States: the
Civil War, | 12 | | World War I, any time between September 16, 1940 and the
| 13 | | termination of World War II, any time during the national | 14 | | emergency
between June 25, 1950 and January 31, 1955, any time | 15 | | during the Viet
Nam conflict between January 1, 1961 and May 7, | 16 | | 1975, any time during the siege of Beirut between June 14, 1982 | 17 | | and February 26, 1984, any time during the Grenada Conflict | 18 | | between October 25, 1983 and December 15, 1983, or any
time on | 19 | | or after August 2, 1990 and until Congress or the President | 20 | | orders that
persons in service are no longer eligible for
the | 21 | | Southwest Asia Service Medal, Operation Enduring Freedom, and | 22 | | Operation Iraqi Freedom. If an honorary scholarship is not | 23 | | awarded for a given period of hostilities because there are no |
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| 1 | | qualified applicants, then the county may award the scholarship | 2 | | for another one of the listed periods of hostilities, in which | 3 | | case there may be more than one scholarship awarded for the | 4 | | same period of hostilities. Preference for scholarships shall | 5 | | be
given to the children of persons who are deceased or
| 6 | | disabled. Such scholarships shall be
granted to such pupils as | 7 | | shall, upon public examination, conducted as
the board of | 8 | | trustees of the University may determine, be decided to
have | 9 | | attained the greatest proficiency in the branches of learning
| 10 | | usually taught in the secondary schools, and who shall be of | 11 | | good moral
character, and not less than 15 years of age. Such | 12 | | pupils, so selected,
shall be entitled to receive, without | 13 | | charge for tuition, instruction in
any or all departments of | 14 | | the University for a term of at least 4
consecutive years. Such | 15 | | pupils shall conform, in all respects, to the
rules and | 16 | | regulations of the University, established for the government
| 17 | | of the pupils in attendance.
| 18 | | (Source: P.A. 95-64, eff. 1-1-08.)
| 19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 20 | | 2013.
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