Bill Text: IL SB3566 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Requires the Board of Higher Education to establish a uniform admission process online, which must be used at all public institutions of higher education; sets forth what components this admission process must include. Effective July 1, 2018.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB3566 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB3566-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB3566 Introduced 2/16/2018, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
110 ILCS 205/9.07a new
Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Requires the Board of Higher Education to establish a uniform admission process online, which must be used at all public institutions of higher education; sets forth what components this admission process must include. Effective July 1, 2018.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
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 Board of Higher Education Act is amended by
adding Section 9.07a as follows:
(110 ILCS 205/9.07a new)
Sec. 9.07a. Uniform admission process. The Board shall
establish a uniform admission process online, which must be
used at all public institutions of higher education. The goal
of this uniform admission process program is to ensure that no
matter which institution an applicant initially applies to, if
that institution denies the applicant acceptance, then the
applicant will be offered admission to another public
institution of higher education. This admission process must
include the following components:
(1) The Board shall create a uniform admission
application known as the "Universal App", to be accepted at
all public institutions of higher education. The Board
shall make the Universal App available online on the
Board's website. The Board shall inform all high schools in
this State of the availability of the Universal App online,
and high school personnel shall provide this information to
students and their parents or guardian. Each high school

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shall allow a student, with the help of high school
personnel, to complete the Universal App during school
hours if the student's parent or guardian has not chosen to
opt the student out of using school hours for that purpose.
Universal App data must be sent to all public universities.
An applicant who is not offered admission to a public
university must be automatically referred to the community
college district where the applicant resides and provided
with enrollment information from that district.
(2) If a public institution of higher education accepts
a person for admission to the institution, the person shall
receive a letter of acceptance from the institution, which
shall set forth any grant or scholarship offers extended by
the institution at that time. However, nothing shall
prevent the institution from subsequently enhancing such
grant or scholarship offers to the person.
(3) The process must be integrated such that if an
applicant is not accepted for admission to the public
institution of higher education that he or she applied to,
then the Board shall forward his or her Universal App to
other public institutions of higher education whose
admission standards are reasonably in line with the
applicant's qualifications and who have programs and areas
of study that the applicant wishes to enroll in. However,
the Board, in so forwarding the Universal App to an
institution that matches the applicant's qualifications

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and criteria, shall also ensure that it maximizes the
optimal efficiencies of each academic department of an
institution and each institution itself by forwarding the
Universal App to institutions with a goal of ensuring that
departments and institutions are operating with a critical
mass of students to operate efficiently. The Board shall
also forward the Universal App to the community college
district where the applicant resides.
(4) All admission decisions shall be made by each
public institution of higher education, not the Board.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2018.