Bill Title: Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Requires the Illinois Student Assistance Commission to award grants to students in financial need whose household income is less than the poverty guidelines updated periodically in the Federal Register by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and who are enrolled for at least 15 credit hours in a public university. Provides that the Commission shall receive funding for the grants through appropriations, with each grant awarded being in an amount sufficient to pay the cost of attendance at the university in which the student is enrolled for 2 semesters of enrollment within an academic year. Defines "cost of attendance" to mean the tuition and fee, room and board, and book and supply costs related to a student's attendance at a public university.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0456 Detail]

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Bill Drafts

Revision	Date	Format	Source	View
Engrossed	2017-04-28	HTML/Text	Link	View
Introduced	2017-01-13	HTML/Text	Link	View

Amendments

Amendment	Date	Disposition	Format	Source	View
House Amendment 001	2017-04-05	Proposed	HTML/Text	Link	View

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