Illinois Senate Bill 2846 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)
Status: Failed on January 9 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Makes post-secondary education tuition and fee waivers available to youth for whom the Department of Children and Family Services has court-ordered legal responsibility, youth who aged out of care at age 18 or older, or youth formerly under care who have been adopted and were the subject of an adoption assistance agreement or who have been placed in private guardianship and were the subject of a subsidized guardianship agreement. Requires applicants to have earned a high school diploma from an accredited institution or a high school equivalency certificate or have met the State criteria for high school graduation before the start of the school year for which they are applying for the waivers. Limits the tuition and fee waivers to persons under the age of 26 and provides that waivers shall be available to a student for at least the first 5 years the student is enrolled in a community college, university, or college maintained by the State. Provides that the age requirement and 5-year cap on tuition and fee waivers shall be waived and eligibility extended for applicants or students who were unable to enroll in a qualifying post-secondary school or complete an academic term because the student: (i) was called into active duty with the United States Armed Forces; (ii) was deployed for service in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; or (iii) volunteered in the Peace Corps or the AmeriCorps. Permits the Department to provide the student with a stipend to cover maintenance and school expenses during the academic years to supplement the student's earnings. Requires the Department to develop outreach programs to ensure qualifying youths are aware of the availability of the tuition and fee waivers.

DCFS-TUITION & FEE WAIVERS

Sen. Cristina Castro [D]	Sen. Iris Martinez [D]	Sen. John Cullerton [D]	Sen. Jacqueline Collins [D]
Sen. Emil Jones [D]	Sen. David Koehler [D]	Sen. Omar Aquino [D]	Sen. John Mulroe [D]
Sen. Kimberly Lightford [D]	Sen. Antonio Munoz [D]	Sen. Karen McConnaughay [R]	Sen. Mattie Hunter [D]
Rep. Emanuel Welch [D]

2018-04-25 - Senate - Third Reading in Senate (Y: 40 N: 15 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-09	Senate	Session Sine Die
2018-05-18	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2018-05-07	House	Assigned to Appropriations-Higher Education Committee
2018-04-27	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mattie Hunter
2018-04-26	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2018-04-26	House	First Reading
2018-04-25	House	Chief House Sponsor Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch
2018-04-25	House	Arrived in House
2018-04-25	Senate	Third Reading - Passed; 040-015-000
2018-04-25	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Karen McConnaughay
2018-04-24	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 25, 2018
2018-04-24	Senate	Second Reading
2018-04-24	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading
2018-04-24	Senate	Do Pass as Amended Human Services; 006-002-000
2018-04-24	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted
2018-04-23	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Human Services
2018-04-20	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
2018-04-20	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Cristina Castro
2018-04-18	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Antonio Muñoz
2018-04-18	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
2018-04-18	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. John G. Mulroe
2018-04-17	Senate	Postponed - Human Services
2018-04-13	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 27, 2018
2018-04-12	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Omar Aquino
2018-04-11	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
2018-04-11	Senate	Postponed - Human Services
2018-03-14	Senate	Postponed - Human Services
2018-03-01	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. David Koehler
2018-02-28	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. John J. Cullerton
2018-02-27	Senate	Postponed - Human Services
2018-02-26	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
2018-02-23	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Iris Y. Martinez
2018-02-21	Senate	Assigned to Human Services
2018-02-13	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2018-02-13	Senate	First Reading
2018-02-13	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Cristina Castro

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
20	505	8	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2846&GAID=14&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/SB/10000SB2846.htm
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/SB/10000SB2846eng.htm
Amendment	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/SB/10000SB2846sam001.htm
Roll Call	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/votehistory/100/senate/10000SB2846_04252018_023000T.pdf