Bill Text: IL SB0236 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the University of Illinois Act. In provisions concerning scholarships for the children of veterans, provides that an honorary scholarship may also be given to the children of persons who served at any time during the invasion of Panama between December 20, 1989 and January 31, 1990.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-03 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB0236 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB0236-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB0236 Introduced 1/31/2023, by Sen. Steve McClure SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
110 ILCS 305/9 from Ch. 144, par. 30
Amends the University of Illinois Act. In provisions concerning scholarships for the children of veterans, provides that a honorary scholarship may also be given to the children of persons who served at any time during the invasion of Panama between December 20, 1989 and January 31, 1990.
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A BILL FOR
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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 University of Illinois Act is amended by
changing Section 9 as follows:
(110 ILCS 305/9) (from Ch. 144, par. 30)
Sec. 9. Scholarships for children of veterans. For each of
the following periods of hostilities, each county shall be
entitled, annually, to one honorary scholarship in the
University, for the benefit of the children of persons who
served in the armed forces of the United States, except that
the total number of scholarships annually granted to
recipients from each county may not exceed 3: any time between
September 16, 1940 and the termination of World War II, any
time during the national emergency between June 25, 1950 and
January 31, 1955, any time during the Viet Nam conflict
between January 1, 1961 and May 7, 1975, any time during the
siege of Beirut and the Grenada Conflict between June 14, 1982
and December 15, 1983, any time during the invasion of Panama
between December 20, 1989 and January 31, 1990, or any time on
or after August 2, 1990 and until Congress or the President
orders that persons in service are no longer eligible for the
Southwest Asia Service Medal, Operation Enduring Freedom, and

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Operation Iraqi Freedom. Preference for scholarships shall be
given to the children of persons who are deceased or to the
children of persons who have a disability. Such scholarships
shall be granted to such pupils as shall, upon public
examination, conducted as the board of trustees of the
University may determine, be decided to have attained the
greatest proficiency in the branches of learning usually
taught in the secondary schools, and who shall be of good moral
character, and not less than 15 years of age. Such pupils, so
selected, shall be entitled to receive, without charge for
tuition, instruction in any or all departments of the
University for a term of at least 4 consecutive years. Such
pupils shall conform, in all respects, to the rules and
regulations of the University, established for the government
of the pupils in attendance.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 99-377, eff. 8-17-15;
99-642, eff. 7-28-16.)