Bill Text: IL HB4257 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the College and Career Success for All Students Act. Provides that a student who takes a College Board Advanced Placement examination and receives a score of 3 or higher on the examination is entitled to receive postsecondary level course credit at a public institution of higher education. Requires each public institution of higher education to comply with the same standard of awarding course credit to any student receiving a score of 3 or higher on a College Board Advanced Placement examination and applying the credit to meet a corresponding course requirement for degree completion at that institution of higher education. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB4257 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB4257-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB4257 Introduced , by Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 302/30 new
Amends the College and Career Success for All Students Act. Provides that a student who takes a College Board Advanced Placement examination and receives a score of 3 or higher on the examination is entitled to receive postsecondary level course credit at a public institution of higher education. Requires each public institution of higher education to comply with the same standard of awarding course credit to any student receiving a score of 3 or higher on a College Board Advanced Placement examination and applying the credit to meet a corresponding course requirement for degree completion at that institution of higher education. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The College and Career Success for All Students
Act is amended by adding Section 30 as follows:
(105 ILCS 302/30 new)
Sec. 30. Examination; postsecondary level course credit.
(a) In this Section, "institution of higher education"
means a public university or public community college located
in this State.
(b) A student who takes a College Board Advanced Placement
examination and receives a score of 3 or higher on the
examination is entitled to receive postsecondary level course
credit at an institution of higher education.
(c) Each institution of higher education shall comply with
the same standard of awarding course credit to any student
receiving a score of 3 or higher on a College Board Advanced
Placement examination and applying the credit to meet a
corresponding course requirement for degree completion at that
institution of higher education.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.