Illinois Senate Bill 3856 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: Introduced on January 21 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-12-22 - Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Don Harmon
Pending: Senate Assignments Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the University of Illinois Act, the Southern Illinois University Management Act, the Chicago State University Law, the Eastern Illinois University Law, the Governors State University Law, the Illinois State University Law, the Northeastern Illinois University Law, the Northern Illinois University Law, the Western Illinois University Law, and the Public Community College Act. Requires a university or community college to provide all necessary coursework materials for rental, free of charge to any student under this Section who meets all of the following qualifications: (a) the student is a resident of the State; (b) the student graduated from an approved high school in the State; (c) the student is enrolled for the upcoming semester or term at the university or community college; and (d) as applicable to a university, the student has not previously earned or received a bachelor's degree or attended 135 credit hours or equivalent of coursework or as applicable to a community college, the student has not previously earned or received an associate's degree or attended 60 credit hours or equivalent of coursework. Defines terms. Effective immediately.

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Sen. Don Harmon [D]	Sen. Cristina Castro [D]	Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel [D]	Sen. Karina Villa [D]
Sen. David Koehler [D]	Sen. Emil Jones [D]	Sen. Antonio Munoz [D]	Sen. Sara Feigenholtz [D]
Sen. Ram Villivalam [D]	Sen. Steve Stadelman [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-12-22	Senate	Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Don Harmon
2022-03-29	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Steve Stadelman
2022-03-25	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Ram Villivalam
2022-03-22	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sara Feigenholtz
2022-03-11	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Antonio Muñoz
2022-03-10	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
2022-03-09	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. David Koehler
2022-03-09	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Karina Villa
2022-03-09	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel
2022-03-09	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro
2022-02-25	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2022-02-09	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 10, 2022
2022-02-09	Senate	Do Pass Higher Education; 011-001-000
2022-02-08	Senate	Waive Posting Notice
2022-02-01	Senate	Assigned to Higher Education
2022-01-21	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2022-01-21	Senate	First Reading
2022-01-21	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Scott M. Bennett

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
110	305	125	New Code	See Bill Text
110	520	105	New Code	See Bill Text
110	660	5-215	New Code	See Bill Text
110	665	5-215	New Code	See Bill Text
110	670	15-215	New Code	See Bill Text
110	675	20-220	New Code	See Bill Text
110	680	25-215	New Code	See Bill Text
110	685	30-225	New Code	See Bill Text
110	690	35-220	New Code	See Bill Text
110	805	3-29.21	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3856&GAID=16&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=110&GA=102
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/102/SB/10200SB3856.htm