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90_HB3749

      110 ILCS 947/35
          Amends  the  Higher  Education  Student  Assistance  Act.
      Provides that if a student who receives  a  MAP  award  as  a
      full-time  undergraduate student has not received the maximum
      grant for the academic year in which  the  grant  is  awarded
      because of a change in his or her full-time enrollment status
      before  the  summer  term  of  that academic year begins, the
      Commission  shall  provide  summer  term  assistance  to  the
      student if the student  applies  and  remains  MAP  eligible.
      Provides  that  the amount of summer term assistance provided
      may not cause the aggregate amount of the grant  received  by
      the  student  for the academic year to exceed the maximum MAP
      award available for full-time enrollment  for  that  academic
      year.  Effective July 1, 1998.
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 1        AN  ACT  to amend the Higher Education Student Assistance
 2    Act by changing Section 35.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.   The Higher Education Student Assistance Act
 6    is amended by changing Section 35 as follows:
 7        (110 ILCS 947/35)
 8        Sec. 35. Monetary award program.
 9        (a)  The  Commission  shall,  each  year,   receive   and
10    consider   applications   for  grant  assistance  under  this
11    Section.   Subject  to  a  separate  appropriation  for  such
12    purposes, an applicant is eligible for  a  grant  under  this
13    Section when the Commission finds that the applicant:
14             (1)  is  a  resident  of this State and a citizen or
15        permanent resident of the United States; and
16             (2)  in the absence of  grant  assistance,  will  be
17        deterred  by  financial considerations from completing an
18        educational program at the qualified institution  of  his
19        or her choice.
20        (b)  The  Commission  shall  award renewals only upon the
21    student's application and upon the Commission's finding  that
22    the applicant:
23             (1)  has remained a student in good standing;
24             (2)  remains a resident of this State; and
25             (3)  is  in  a financial situation that continues to
26        warrant assistance.
27        (c)  All grants shall be applicable only to  tuition  and
28    necessary  fee  costs  for  2  semesters  or 3 quarters in an
29    academic year.  Requests for summer term assistance  will  be
30    made  separately  and  shall  be  considered on an individual
31    basis according to Commission policy. However, if  a  student
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 1    who  is  awarded  a  grant  under this Section as a full-time
 2    undergraduate student has not received the maximum award  for
 3    the academic year for which the grant is awarded because of a
 4    change  in  his or her full-time enrollment status before the
 5    summer term of that academic  year  begins,  the  Commission,
 6    upon  application  of  the student, shall provide summer term
 7    assistance to that student under  this  Section  (i)  if  the
 8    student  has  continued to remain eligible for monetary award
 9    program consideration, and (ii) if the amount  of  assistance
10    provided  by the Commission to the student during that summer
11    term does not cause the aggregate  amount  of  the  student's
12    grant  under  this Section for the academic year in which the
13    grant is awarded to exceed the maximum grant amount available
14    under this Section for full-time undergraduate enrollment for
15    that academic year.    The  Commission  shall  determine  the
16    grant  amount for each full-time and part-time student, which
17    shall be the smallest of the following amounts:
18             (1)  $4,120  for  2  semesters  or  3  quarters   of
19        full-time   undergraduate  enrollment  or  $2,060  for  2
20        semesters  or  3  quarters  of  part-time   undergraduate
21        enrollment, or such lesser amount as the Commission finds
22        to be available; or
23             (2)  the  amount  which  equals the 2 semesters or 3
24        quarters  tuition  and  other  necessary  fees   required
25        generally   by   the   institution   of   all   full-time
26        undergraduate  students,  or  in  the  case  of part-time
27        students an amount of tuition and fees for 2 semesters or
28        3 quarters which shall not exceed one-half the amount  of
29        tuition and necessary fees generally charged to full-time
30        undergraduate students by the institution; or
31             (3)  such  amount  as  the  Commission  finds  to be
32        appropriate  in  view  of   the   applicant's   financial
33        resources.
34    "Tuition  and  other  necessary fees" as used in this Section
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 1    include the customary  charge  for  instruction  and  use  of
 2    facilities  in general, and the additional fixed fees charged
 3    for specified  purposes,  which  are  required  generally  of
 4    nongrant  recipients  for  each academic period for which the
 5    grant applicant actually enrolls, but  do  not  include  fees
 6    payable  only  once  or  breakage  fees  and other contingent
 7    deposits which are refundable  in  whole  or  in  part.   The
 8    Commission  may prescribe, by rule not inconsistent with this
 9    Section, detailed provisions concerning  the  computation  of
10    tuition and other necessary fees.
11        (d)  No  applicant,  including  those presently receiving
12    scholarship  assistance  under  this  Act,  is  eligible  for
13    monetary award program consideration  under  this  Act  after
14    receiving  a  baccalaureate  degree  or  the equivalent of 10
15    semesters or 15 quarters of award payments.   The  Commission
16    shall  determine when award payments for part-time enrollment
17    or interim or summer terms shall  be  counted  as  a  partial
18    semester or quarter of payment.
19        (e)  The  Commission, in determining the number of grants
20    to be offered, shall take into consideration past  experience
21    with  the  rate  of grant funds unclaimed by recipients.  The
22    Commission shall notify applicants that grant  assistance  is
23    contingent upon the availability of appropriated funds.
24        (f)  The   Commission   may  request  appropriations  for
25    deposit into the Monetary Award Program Reserve Fund.  Monies
26    deposited into the Monetary Award Program Reserve Fund may be
27    expended exclusively for one purpose: to make Monetary  Award
28    Program  grants  to eligible students.  Amounts on deposit in
29    the Monetary Award Program Reserve Fund may not exceed 2%  of
30    the current annual State appropriation for the Monetary Award
31    Program.
32        The purpose of the Monetary Award Program Reserve Fund is
33    to enable the Commission each year to assure as many students
34    as possible of their eligibility for a Monetary Award Program
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 1    grant  and to do so before commencement of the academic year.
 2    Moneys deposited in this Reserve Fund are intended to enhance
 3    the Commission's management of the  Monetary  Award  Program,
 4    minimizing   the   necessity,  magnitude,  and  frequency  of
 5    adjusting award amounts and ensuring that the annual Monetary
 6    Award Program appropriation can be fully utilized.
 7        (g)  The Commission shall determine  the  eligibility  of
 8    and   make   grants   to  applicants  enrolled  at  qualified
 9    for-profit institutions in accordance with the  criteria  set
10    forth   in  this  Section.   The  eligibility  of  applicants
11    enrolled at such for-profit institutions shall be limited  as
12    follows:
13             (1)  Beginning  with the academic year 1997, only to
14        eligible  first-time  freshmen  and  first-time  transfer
15        students who have attained an associate degree.
16             (2)  Beginning with the academic year 1998, only  to
17        eligible  freshmen  students,  transfer students who have
18        attained an associate degree, and students who receive  a
19        grant  under paragraph (1) for the academic year 1997 and
20        whose grants are being  renewed  for  the  academic  year
21        1998.
22             (3)  Beginning  with  the academic year 1999, to all
23        eligible students.
24    (Source: P.A. 89-163, eff.  7-19-95;  89-330,  eff.  8-17-95;
25    89-512,  eff.  7-11-96;  89-626,  eff.  8-9-96;  90-122, eff.
26    7-17-97.)
27        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  July
28    1, 1998.

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