Bill Amendment: IL HB2505 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly
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Bill Title: SCH CD-DEBT LIMIT EXCEPTION
Status: 2019-02-06 - Sent to the Governor [HB2505 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB2505-Senate_Amendment_002.html
Bill Title: SCH CD-DEBT LIMIT EXCEPTION
Status: 2019-02-06 - Sent to the Governor [HB2505 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB2505-Senate_Amendment_002.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2505
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2505 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Higher Education Student Assistance Act is | ||||||
5 | amended by changing Section 65.100 as follows:
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6 | (110 ILCS 947/65.100) | ||||||
7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on October 1, 2024) | ||||||
8 | Sec. 65.100. AIM HIGH Grant Pilot Program. | ||||||
9 | (a) The General Assembly makes all of the following | ||||||
10 | findings: | ||||||
11 | (1) Both access and affordability are important | ||||||
12 | aspects of the Illinois Public Agenda for College and | ||||||
13 | Career Success report. | ||||||
14 | (2) This State is in the top quartile with respect to | ||||||
15 | the percentage of family income needed to pay for college. | ||||||
16 | (3) Research suggests that as loan amounts increase, |
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1 | rather than an increase in grant amounts, the probability | ||||||
2 | of college attendance decreases. | ||||||
3 | (4) There is further research indicating that | ||||||
4 | socioeconomic status may affect the willingness of | ||||||
5 | students to use loans to attend college. | ||||||
6 | (5) Strategic use of tuition discounting can decrease | ||||||
7 | the amount of loans that students must use to pay for | ||||||
8 | tuition. | ||||||
9 | (6) A modest, individually tailored tuition discount | ||||||
10 | can make the difference in a student choosing to attend | ||||||
11 | college and enhance college access for low-income and | ||||||
12 | middle-income families. | ||||||
13 | (7) Even if the federally calculated financial need for | ||||||
14 | college attendance is met, the federally determined | ||||||
15 | Expected Family Contribution can still be a daunting | ||||||
16 | amount. | ||||||
17 | (8) This State is the second largest exporter of | ||||||
18 | students in the country. | ||||||
19 | (9) When talented Illinois students attend | ||||||
20 | universities in this State, the State and those | ||||||
21 | universities benefit. | ||||||
22 | (10) State universities in other states have adopted | ||||||
23 | pricing and incentives that allow many Illinois residents | ||||||
24 | to pay less to attend an out-of-state university than to | ||||||
25 | remain in this State for college. | ||||||
26 | (11) Supporting Illinois student attendance at |
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1 | Illinois public universities can assist in State efforts to | ||||||
2 | maintain and educate a highly trained workforce. | ||||||
3 | (12) Modest tuition discounts that are individually | ||||||
4 | targeted and tailored can result in enhanced revenue for | ||||||
5 | public universities. | ||||||
6 | (13) By increasing a public university's capacity to | ||||||
7 | strategically use tuition discounting, the public | ||||||
8 | university will be capable of creating enhanced tuition | ||||||
9 | revenue by increasing enrollment yields. | ||||||
10 | (b) In this Section: | ||||||
11 | "Eligible applicant" means a student from any high school | ||||||
12 | in this State, whether or not recognized by the State Board of | ||||||
13 | Education, who is engaged in a program of study that in due | ||||||
14 | course will be completed by the end of the school year and who | ||||||
15 | meets all of the qualifications and requirements under this | ||||||
16 | Section. | ||||||
17 | "Tuition and other necessary fees" includes the customary | ||||||
18 | charge for instruction and use of facilities in general and the | ||||||
19 | additional fixed fees charged for specified purposes that are | ||||||
20 | required generally of non-grant recipients for each academic | ||||||
21 | period for which the grant applicant actually enrolls, but does | ||||||
22 | not include fees payable only once or breakage fees and other | ||||||
23 | contingent deposits that are refundable in whole or in part. | ||||||
24 | The Commission may adopt, by rule not inconsistent with this | ||||||
25 | Section, detailed provisions concerning the computation of | ||||||
26 | tuition and other necessary fees. |
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1 | (c) Beginning with the 2019-2020 academic year, each public | ||||||
2 | university may establish a merit-based scholarship pilot | ||||||
3 | program known as the AIM HIGH Grant Pilot Program. Each year, | ||||||
4 | the Commission shall receive and consider applications from | ||||||
5 | public universities under this Section. Subject to | ||||||
6 | appropriation and any tuition waiver limitation established by | ||||||
7 | the Board of Higher Education, a public university campus may | ||||||
8 | award a grant to a student under this Section if it finds that | ||||||
9 | the applicant meets all of the following criteria: | ||||||
10 | (1) He or she is a resident of this State and a citizen | ||||||
11 | or eligible noncitizen of the United States. | ||||||
12 | (2) He or she files a Free Application for Federal | ||||||
13 | Student Aid and demonstrates financial need with a | ||||||
14 | household income no greater than 6 times the poverty | ||||||
15 | guidelines updated periodically in the Federal Register by | ||||||
16 | the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the | ||||||
17 | authority of 42 U.S.C. 9902(2). | ||||||
18 | (3) He or she meets the minimum cumulative grade point | ||||||
19 | average or ACT or SAT college admissions test score, as | ||||||
20 | determined by the public university campus. | ||||||
21 | (4) He or she is enrolled in a public university as an | ||||||
22 | undergraduate student on a full-time basis. | ||||||
23 | (5) He or she has not yet received a baccalaureate | ||||||
24 | degree or the equivalent of 135 semester credit hours. | ||||||
25 | (6) He or she is not incarcerated. | ||||||
26 | (7) He or she is not in default on any student loan or |
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1 | does not owe a refund or repayment on any State or federal | ||||||
2 | grant or scholarship. | ||||||
3 | (8) Any other reasonable criteria, as determined by the | ||||||
4 | public university campus. | ||||||
5 | (d) Each public university campus shall determine grant | ||||||
6 | renewal criteria consistent with the requirements under this | ||||||
7 | Section. | ||||||
8 | (e) Each participating public university campus shall post | ||||||
9 | on its Internet website criteria and eligibility requirements | ||||||
10 | for receiving awards that use funds under this Section that | ||||||
11 | include includes a range in the sizes of these individual | ||||||
12 | awards. The criteria and amounts must also be reported to the | ||||||
13 | Commission and the Board of Higher Education, who shall post | ||||||
14 | the information on their respective Internet websites. | ||||||
15 | (f) After enactment of an appropriation for this Program, | ||||||
16 | the Commission shall determine an allocation of funds to each | ||||||
17 | public university in an amount proportionate to the number of | ||||||
18 | undergraduate students who are residents of this State and | ||||||
19 | citizens or eligible noncitizens of the United States and who | ||||||
20 | were enrolled at each public university campus in the previous | ||||||
21 | academic year. All applications must be made to the Commission | ||||||
22 | on or before a date determined by the Commission and on forms | ||||||
23 | that the Commission shall provide to each public university | ||||||
24 | campus. The form of the application and the information | ||||||
25 | required shall be determined by the Commission and shall | ||||||
26 | include, without limitation, the total public university |
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1 | campus funds used to match funds received from the Commission | ||||||
2 | in the previous academic year under this Section, if any, the | ||||||
3 | total enrollment of undergraduate students who are residents of | ||||||
4 | this State from the previous academic year, and any supporting | ||||||
5 | documents as the Commission deems necessary. Each public | ||||||
6 | university campus shall match the amount of funds received by | ||||||
7 | the Commission with financial aid for eligible students. | ||||||
8 | A public university campus is not required to claim its | ||||||
9 | entire allocation. The Commission shall make available to all | ||||||
10 | public universities, on a date determined by the Commission, | ||||||
11 | any unclaimed funds and the funds must be made available to | ||||||
12 | those public university campuses in the proportion determined | ||||||
13 | under this subsection (f), excluding from the calculation those | ||||||
14 | public university campuses not claiming their full | ||||||
15 | allocations. | ||||||
16 | Each public university campus may determine the award | ||||||
17 | amounts for eligible students on an individual or broad basis, | ||||||
18 | but, subject to renewal eligibility, each renewed award may not | ||||||
19 | be less than the amount awarded to the eligible student in his | ||||||
20 | or her first year attending the public university campus. | ||||||
21 | Notwithstanding this limitation, a renewal grant may be reduced | ||||||
22 | due to changes in the student's cost of attendance, including, | ||||||
23 | but not limited to, if a student reduces the number of credit | ||||||
24 | hours in which he or she is enrolled, but remains a full-time | ||||||
25 | student, or switches to a course of study with a lower tuition | ||||||
26 | rate. |
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1 | An eligible applicant awarded grant assistance under this | ||||||
2 | Section is eligible to receive other financial aid. Total grant | ||||||
3 | aid to the student from all sources may not exceed the total | ||||||
4 | cost of attendance at the public university campus. | ||||||
5 | (g) All money allocated to a public university campus under | ||||||
6 | this Section may be used only for financial aid purposes for | ||||||
7 | students attending the public university campus during the | ||||||
8 | academic year, not including summer terms. Notwithstanding any | ||||||
9 | other provision of law to the contrary, any Any funds received | ||||||
10 | by a public university campus under this Section that are not | ||||||
11 | granted to students in the academic year for which the funds | ||||||
12 | are received may be retained by the public university campus | ||||||
13 | for expenditure on students participating in the Program or | ||||||
14 | students eligible to participate in the Program must be | ||||||
15 | refunded to the Commission before any new funds are received by | ||||||
16 | the public university campus for the next academic year . | ||||||
17 | (h) Each public university campus that establishes a | ||||||
18 | Program under this Section must annually report to the | ||||||
19 | Commission, on or before a date determined by the Commission, | ||||||
20 | the number of undergraduate students enrolled at that campus | ||||||
21 | who are residents of this State. | ||||||
22 | (i) Each public university campus must report to the | ||||||
23 | Commission the total non-loan financial aid amount given by the | ||||||
24 | public university campus to undergraduate students in fiscal | ||||||
25 | year 2018. To be eligible to receive funds under the Program, a | ||||||
26 | public university campus may not decrease the total amount of |
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1 | non-loan financial aid for undergraduate students to an amount | ||||||
2 | lower than the total non-loan financial aid amount given by the | ||||||
3 | public university campus to undergraduate students in fiscal | ||||||
4 | year 2018, not including any funds received from the Commission | ||||||
5 | under this Section or any funds used to match grant awards | ||||||
6 | under this Section. | ||||||
7 | (j) On or before a date determined by the Commission, each | ||||||
8 | public university campus that participates in the Program under | ||||||
9 | this Section shall annually submit a report to the Commission | ||||||
10 | with all of the following information: | ||||||
11 | (1) The Program's impact on tuition revenue and | ||||||
12 | enrollment goals and increase in access and affordability | ||||||
13 | at the public university campus. | ||||||
14 | (2) Total funds received by the public university | ||||||
15 | campus under the Program. | ||||||
16 | (3) Total non-loan financial aid awarded to | ||||||
17 | undergraduate students attending the public university | ||||||
18 | campus. | ||||||
19 | (4) Total amount of funds matched by the public | ||||||
20 | university campus. | ||||||
21 | (5) Total amount of claimed and unexpended funds | ||||||
22 | retained refunded to the Commission by the public | ||||||
23 | university campus. | ||||||
24 | (6) The percentage of total financial aid distributed | ||||||
25 | under the Program by the public university campus. | ||||||
26 | (7) The total number of students receiving grants from |
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1 | the public university campus under the Program and those | ||||||
2 | students' grade level, race, gender, income level, family | ||||||
3 | size, Monetary Award Program eligibility, Pell Grant | ||||||
4 | eligibility, and zip code of residence and the amount of | ||||||
5 | each grant award. This information shall include unit | ||||||
6 | record data on those students regarding variables | ||||||
7 | associated with the parameters of the public university's | ||||||
8 | Program, including, but not limited to, a student's ACT or | ||||||
9 | SAT college admissions test score, high school or | ||||||
10 | university cumulative grade point average, or program of | ||||||
11 | study. | ||||||
12 | On or before October 1, 2020 and annually on or before | ||||||
13 | October 1 thereafter, the Commission shall submit a report with | ||||||
14 | the findings under this subsection (j) and any other | ||||||
15 | information regarding the AIM HIGH Grant Pilot Program to (i) | ||||||
16 | the Governor, (ii) the Speaker of the House of Representatives, | ||||||
17 | (iii) the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, (iv) | ||||||
18 | the President of the Senate, and (v) the Minority Leader of the | ||||||
19 | Senate. The reports to the General Assembly shall be filed with | ||||||
20 | the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of | ||||||
21 | the Senate in electronic form only, in the manner that the | ||||||
22 | Clerk and the Secretary shall direct. The Commission's report | ||||||
23 | may not disaggregate data to a level that may disclose | ||||||
24 | personally identifying information of individual students. | ||||||
25 | The sharing and reporting of student data under this | ||||||
26 | subsection (j) must be in accordance with the requirements |
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1 | under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of | ||||||
2 | 1974 and the Illinois School Student Records Act. All parties | ||||||
3 | must preserve the confidentiality of the information as | ||||||
4 | required by law. The names of the grant recipients under this | ||||||
5 | Section are not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of | ||||||
6 | Information Act. | ||||||
7 | Public university campuses that fail to submit a report | ||||||
8 | under this subsection (j) or that fail to adhere to any other | ||||||
9 | requirements under this Section may not be eligible for | ||||||
10 | distribution of funds under the Program for the next academic | ||||||
11 | year, but may be eligible for distribution of funds for each | ||||||
12 | academic year thereafter. | ||||||
13 | (k) The Commission shall adopt rules to implement this | ||||||
14 | Section. | ||||||
15 | (l) This Section is repealed on October 1, 2024.
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16 | (Source: P.A. 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 100-1015, eff. 8-21-18; | ||||||
17 | revised 10-22-18.)
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18 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
19 | becoming law.".
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