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90_HB2996

      110 ILCS 305/7f           from Ch. 144, par. 28f
          Amends the University of Illinois Act.  In the provisions
      authorizing 50%  tuition  waivers  to  children  of  Illinois
      college  or  university employees if specified conditions are
      met, includes as an Illinois college or university employee a
      person who is employed by the Hazardous  Waste  Research  and
      Information  Center  or a person employed within any of the 3
      divisions of the Department of Natural Resources that carries
      out the functions of the Scientific Surveys.
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 1        AN ACT  to  amend  the  University  of  Illinois  Act  by
 2    changing Section 7f.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The University of Illinois Act is amended  by
 6    changing Section 7f as follows:
 7        (110 ILCS 305/7f) (from Ch. 144, par. 28f)
 8        Sec. 7f.  Partial tuition waivers.
 9        (a)  As  used  in  this  Section,  "Illinois  college  or
10    university"  means  any  of the following:  the University of
11    Illinois,  Southern  Illinois   University,   Chicago   State
12    University,  Eastern  Illinois  University,  Governors  State
13    University,  Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois
14    University,  Northern  Illinois   University,   and   Western
15    Illinois University.
16        (b)  Each year the Board of Trustees of the University of
17    Illinois  shall  offer  50% tuition waivers for undergraduate
18    education at any campus under its governance  or  supervision
19    to  the  children  of  employees  of  an  Illinois college or
20    university who have been employed by any one or by more  than
21    one Illinois college or university for an aggregate period of
22    at  least  7  years.   To  be  eligible  to receive a partial
23    tuition waiver, the child  of  an  employee  of  an  Illinois
24    college  or university (i) must be under the age of 25 at the
25    commencement of the academic year during  which  the  partial
26    tuition  waiver is to be effective, and (ii) must qualify for
27    admission to  the  University  of  Illinois  under  the  same
28    admissions  requirements,  standards  and  policies which the
29    University of Illinois applies to  applicants  for  admission
30    generally   to  its  respective  undergraduate  colleges  and
31    programs. For purposes of this Section,  an  employee  of  an
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 1    Illinois  college  or university shall be deemed to include a
 2    person who is employed by the Hazardous  Waste  Research  and
 3    Information  Center  of  the  Illinois  Department of Natural
 4    Resources  under  the  Hazardous  Waste  Technology  Exchange
 5    Service Act or who is employed within any of the 3  divisions
 6    of  the  Department  of  Natural Resources that carry out the
 7    functions of the Scientific Surveys (State Geological  Survey
 8    Division,  State  Natural  History Survey Division, and State
 9    Water Survey Division) under the authority of  the  Board  of
10    Natural Resources and Conservation.
11        (c)  Subject   to   the  provisions  and  limitations  of
12    subsection (b), an eligible applicant who  has  continued  to
13    maintain satisfactory academic progress toward graduation may
14    have his or her partial tuition waiver renewed until the time
15    as  he  or  she has expended 4 years of undergraduate partial
16    tuition waiver benefits under this Section.
17        (d)  No partial tuition waiver offered  or  allocated  to
18    any  eligible  applicant in accordance with the provisions of
19    this Section shall be  charged  against  any  tuition  waiver
20    limitation  established  by  the  Illinois  Board  of  Higher
21    Education.
22        (e)  The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  prescribe rules and
23    regulations as are necessary to implement and administer  the
24    provisions of this Section.
25    (Source: P.A. 90-282, eff. 1-1-98.)

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