Bill Text: IL HB5248 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides that the provisions of a Section requiring the award of a contract to the lowest responsible bidder do not prevent a community college from complying with the terms and conditions of a grant, gift, or bequest that calls for the procurement of a particular good or service or the use of a particular contractor, provided that the grant, gift, or bequest provides all funding for the contract. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5248 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB5248-Amended.html

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Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford

Filed: 5/1/2012

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5248
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5248 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Illinois College Choice Reports Act.
Section 5. Findings and declarations. The General Assembly
finds and declares the following:
(1) completion of post-secondary education is
increasingly important for individuals and this State
overall;
(2) accessibility of information is essential for
informed student choice of appropriate post-secondary
education;
(3) clear, consistent information allowing access to
comparable information across higher education
institutions will lead to improved student choice; and

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(4) data collected by State higher education agencies
should be available to the public in an accessible form.
Section 10. Illinois College Choice Reports.
(a) The Illinois Community College Board, the Board of
Higher Education, an organization representing the public
policy interests of this State's private, non-profit colleges
and universities, and the Illinois Higher Education Consortium
shall form a committee to inform the development of the
Illinois College Choice Reports. The purpose of these reports
is to inform students' college choices by providing current
information in a consistent and comparable format, including
without limitation costs, student demographics, student
progress and attainment, application and admission data, areas
of study, and certificate or degree completion. Development of
the reporting mechanisms must be completed on or before January
1, 2014. After development, the Board of Higher Education and
the Illinois Community College Board shall collect data
annually and make it publicly available.
(b) The Illinois College Choice Reports shall be (i)
clearly linked to performance funding metrics and the goals of
the Illinois Public Agenda for College and Career Success and
(ii) simple to read and clearly indicative of minority and
low-income student access, student progress, and progress
towards increasing college completion.
(c) The Illinois College Choice Reports may include, but

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need not be limited to, the following, in accordance with the
applicable data available for collection by the Illinois
Community College Board and the Board of Higher Education at
the time the reports are prepared for publication:
(1) Costs, such as tuition and net price data, required
fees, room and board on campus, and student loan default
rates.
(2) Students, such as total number, gender, race and
ethnicity, full or part-time status, and degree seeking or
non-degree seeking.
(3) Student success and progress, such as percentage of
students who have graduated or are still enrolled in a
higher education institution within 150% of the expected
time to get a degree, degree completion measures, measures
of retention and persistence, passage rates for licensure
and certification, job placement rates, and student
learning measures.
(4) Admissions or acceptance, such as whether a higher
education institution has open admission or has admission
criteria; for those that are not open, a statement of the
standards; and, for those having programs requiring
acceptance, a statement of the criteria.
(5) Applicant information, such as new freshmen
applicants, percentage of freshman applicants admitted,
and percentage of admitted freshmen that enrolled.
(6) Classroom experiences, such as areas of study or

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areas of concentration with the largest number of students.
(7) Educational outcomes, such as associate's or
bachelor's degrees and certificates awarded per year,
measures of intent, and employment.
(d) The committee formed under subsection (a) of this
Section shall take into account existing data initiatives and
sources, including without limitation the longitudinal data
system, in order to minimize unnecessary additional data
collection or reporting and to utilize existing common data
definitions. It shall be the responsibility of the governing
body of the longitudinal data system to identify which data are
immediately available and make recommendations for which
measures may reasonably be included in the Illinois College
Choice Reports and for future collection of the most useful
data that are not currently available.
(e) The Illinois Community College Board shall develop the
Illinois College Choice Reports with input from the Board's
MIS/ILDS Research and Longitudinal Data Advisory Committee,
appointed by the Board pursuant to Section 2-7 of the Public
Community College Act. The Board of Higher Education shall seek
input from stakeholder groups in developing the Illinois
College Choice Reports.
(f) The Illinois Community College Board and the Board of
Higher Education shall regularly inform the chairperson of the
Illinois P-20 Council's Joint Education Leadership Committee
on the status of the implementation of the Illinois College

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Choice Reports. At the request of the Illinois Community
College Board and the Board of Higher Education, the
chairperson of the Illinois P-20 Council's Joint Education
Leadership Committee shall convene meetings of the committee
formed under subsection (a) of this Section as needed.
(g) In making the Illinois College Choice Reports publicly
available on their Internet websites, the Illinois Community
College Board and the Board of Higher Education shall include
links to connect to other resources, such as the Illinois
Student Assistance Commission, that provide information used
to inform student college choice.
(h) On or before January 1, 2015 and on or before January 1
of each year thereafter, the Board of Higher Education and the
Illinois Community College Board shall prepare Illinois
College Choice Reports for each higher education institution
approved to operate and grant degrees in this State. On or
before January 1 of each year, the reports must be made
available on the Board of Higher Education's and the Illinois
Community College Board's Internet websites and clearly linked
to and from each higher education institution's Internet
website. The Illinois Student Assistant Commission's Internet
website shall link to the annually updated reports.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".