Illinois Compiled Statutes 110 Higher Education: Article -
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 1
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. (Source: P.A. 87-997.)
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 5
Purpose. The General Assembly finds and declares that (1) the provision of a higher education for all residents of this State who desire a higher...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 10
Definitions. In this Act, and except to the extent that any of the following words or phrases is specifically qualified by its context: "Commission"...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 15
Illinois Student Assistance Commission. (a) There is established the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, consisting of 10 persons to be appointed by the Governor with...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 20
Functions of Commission. (a) The Commission, in accordance with this Act, shall prepare and supervise the issuance of public information concerning its provisions; prescribe the...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 25
State scholar program. (a) An applicant is eligible to be designated a State Scholar when the Commission finds the candidate: (1) is a resident of...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 30
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 90-372, eff. 7-1-98; 90-728, eff. 1-1-99. Repealed by P.A. 91-128, eff. 7-1-00.)
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 31
Merit Recognition Scholarship program. (a) As used in this Section: "Eligible applicant" means a student from any high school in this State, either approved by...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 35
Monetary award program. (a) The Commission shall, each year, receive and consider applications for grant assistance under this Section. Subject to a separate appropriation for...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 36
Silas Purnell Illinois Incentive for Access grant program. (a) The Commission each year shall determine eligibility for the Illinois Incentive for Access grant from...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 37
Higher education license plate grant program. (a) Each year, the Illinois Student Assistance Commission shall receive a separate appropriation for the purpose of providing...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 38
Monetary award program accountability. The Illinois Student Assistance Commission is directed to assess the educational persistence of monetary award program recipients. An assessment under...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 39
Monetary Award Program Plus. (a) The Commission shall receive and consider applications for monetary grant assistance under this Section to benefit those students who will...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 40
Illinois Veteran grant program. (a) As used in this Section: "Qualified applicant" means a person who served in the Armed Forces of the United States,...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 45
Illinois National Guard and Naval Militia grant program. (a) As used in this Section: "State controlled university or community college" means those institutions under the...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 47
Study; applicability and practicality of Pennsylvania's Pay It Forward Pay It Back program to the State of Illinois. (a) The Illinois Student Assistance Commission shall...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 50
Minority Teachers of Illinois scholarship program. (a) As used in this Section: "Eligible applicant" means a minority student who has graduated from high school or...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 52
Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois Program; Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching. (a) In this Section, "Foundation" means the Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 55
Police officer or fire officer survivor grant. Grants shall be provided for any spouse, natural child, legally adopted child, or child in the legal...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 60
Grants for dependents of Department of Corrections employees killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty. Any spouse, natural child, legally adopted child,...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65
Student to student grant program. (a) As used in this Section: "Voluntary contribution" includes fees collected from students by college or university officials when...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.05
Traineeship and fellowship program; training of professional personnel. (a) The Commission, with the advice of the Advisory Council on Education of Children with Disabilities...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.10
Fellowship program. The Commission, with the advice of the Advisory Council on Education of Gifted Children created under Section 14A-4 of the School Code,...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.15
Special education teacher scholarships. (a) There shall be awarded annually 250 scholarships to persons qualifying as members of any of the following groups: (1) Students...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.20
Science-mathematics teacher scholarships. (a) The Commission may annually award a number of scholarships, not to exceed 200, to persons holding valid teaching certificates issued...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.25
Teacher shortage scholarships. (a) The Commission may annually award a number of scholarships to persons preparing to teach in areas of identified staff shortages....
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.27
Teach Illinois Scholarship Program. (a) For the purposes of this Section: "Area of identified staff shortage" means a school district in which the number of...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.30
Equal opportunity scholarships. (a) The Commission may annually award a number of scholarships to students who are interested in pursuing studies in educational administration. Such...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.35
Administrator internships. Under the internship program established by the State Board of Education to provide experience to women and minorities interested in preparing for...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.40
General provisions; leaves of absence. (a) The scholarships issued under Section 65.15 may be used at the University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Chicago...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.45
Special education grants. (a) Special education grants shall be awarded by the Commission to (i) teachers under contract who are teaching special education courses in...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.50
Teacher training full-time undergraduate scholarships. (a) Five hundred new scholarships shall be provided each year for qualified high school students or high school graduates...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.55
Consolidation of scholarship, fellowship and traineeship programs. All scholarship, fellowship or traineeship programs administered by the Commission under the provisions of Sections 65.05, 65.10,...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.56
Illinois Teachers and Child Care Providers Loan Repayment Program. (a) In order to encourage academically talented Illinois students to enter and continue teaching in...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.57
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 91-711, eff. 7-1-00. Repealed by P.A. 92-597, eff. 7-1-02.)
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.60
Administration of federal scholarship programs. The State Board of Education shall be the administrator of the Robert C. Byrd federal scholarship program. The State Board...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.65
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 92-445, eff. 8-17-01. Repealed by P.A. 93-21, eff. 7-1-03.)
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.70
Optometric Education Scholarship Program. (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that the provision of graduate education leading to a doctoral degree in optometry...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.75
Grant for a person raised by a grandparent. (a) The Commission shall, each year, receive and consider applications for grant assistance under this Section. An...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.80
Forensic science grant program. (a) In order to encourage graduate students to enter the field of forensic science and continue their careers as forensic scientists...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 65.85
Southern Illinois University's Achieve Program; grants to participants. Subject to appropriation, the Commission shall award grants to eligible students who are participants in the Clinical...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 67
Illinois DREAM Fund Commission. (a) The Illinois Student Assistance Commission shall establish an Illinois DREAM Fund Commission. The Governor shall appoint, with the advice and...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 70
Administration of scholarship and grant programs. (a) An applicant to whom the Commission has awarded a scholarship or grant under this Act may apply...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 72
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 89-512, eff. 7-11-96. Repealed by P.A. 94-91, eff. 7-1-05.)
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 75
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 97-233, eff. 8-1-11. Repealed by P.A. 98-251, eff. 8-9-13.)
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 77
Illinois Student Assistance Commission Contracts and Grants Fund. (a) The Illinois Student Assistance Commission Contracts and Grants Fund is created as a special fund...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 80
Additional assistance; Loans; Powers and Duties. The Commission shall have the following powers in furtherance of its programs: (a) To guarantee the loan of money...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 85
(Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-553.)
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 87
Coordination of reviews. In accordance with the Federal Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, the Commission is designated as the Illinois agency ultimately...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 90
State income tax refund and other payment intercept. The Commission may provide by rule for certification to the Comptroller: (a) of delinquent or defaulted...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 91
Notice to Secretary of State. The Commission shall establish by rule mutually agreed procedures to furnish the Secretary of State annually or at other...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 95
Capacity of minors. Any person otherwise qualifying for a loan guaranteed or originated by the Commission shall not be disqualified by reason of being...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 100
ISAC originated loans. (a) To further the purposes of this Act, the Commission is authorized to originate loans for educational purposes, to students enrolled...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 105
Procedure on default. Upon default by the borrower on any loan guaranteed under this Act, upon the death of the borrower, or upon report...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 110
Disposition of moneys received by Commission; Appropriations; Insufficient appropriations. (a) All moneys received by the Commission in furtherance of its guarantee loan program for...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 113
Federal Student Loan Fund; Student Loan Operating Fund; Federal Reserve Recall Fund. The Commission shall create the Federal Student Loan Fund, the Student Loan...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 115
Partial invalidity. If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is invalid, that invalidity shall not affect...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 120
Penalty for fraudulent information. Any person who by means of any false statement, wilful misrepresentation, or through other fraudulent device obtains or attempts to...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 125
Short title. Sections 125 through 170 of this Act may also be cited as the Education Loan Purchase Program Law. (Source: P.A. 87-997.)
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 130
Purpose. The General Assembly finds and declares that (1) the provision of an education for all residents of this State who desire an education...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 135
Definitions. In this Act, and except to the extent that any of the following words or phrases is specifically qualified by its context: (a)...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 140
Powers and duties. The Commission shall have the following powers in furtherance of the programs authorized by this Act: (a) To adopt rules and...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 145
Issuance of Bonds. (a) The Commission has power, and is authorized from time to time, to issue bonds (1) to make or acquire eligible loans,...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 150
Security for Bonds. In connection with the issuance of any bonds under this Act, and in order to secure the payment of any such...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 152
Bonds guaranteed by the State of Illinois. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, bonds issued in accordance with the provisions of this Act may...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 155
Enforcement of contract. The provisions of this Act and of any resolution or proceeding authorizing the issuance of bonds shall constitute a contract with...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 160
Moneys of the Commission. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act or of any other law, all proceeds from the sale of the bonds of...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 165
Validity of bonds. The bonds bearing the signature of officers of the Commission in office on the date of the signing thereof shall be...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 170
Bonds as legal investments. The State and all counties, cities, villages, incorporated towns and other municipal corporations, political subdivisions and public bodies, and public...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 175
Supplemental nature of Act; construction and purpose. The powers conferred by this Act shall be in addition to and supplemental to the powers conferred...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 205
Prior law; other Acts. (a) A provision of this Act that is the same or substantially the same as a prior law shall be...
- Illinois Higher Education Student Assistance Act. - 110 ILCS 947, Section 320
This Act takes effect upon becoming law. (Source: P.A. 87-997.)
Last modified: February 18, 2015