HIGHER ED-ADMISSIONS-AG SCI/ED
Summary
Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities in Illinois. With respect to the high school coursework that a person must satisfactorily complete for university admission, adds agricultural sciences as a course option for the science category and agricultural education as a course option for the electives category. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the contents of the bill, but changes references from vocational education to career and technical education.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2021
Committee Review
May 2021
Senate Passage
May 2021
House Passage
May 2021
Signed into Law
Aug 2021
Introduced Apr 26, 2021
Signed Aug 17, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Apr 23, 2021 · House May 27, 2021
How they voted
45–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 46
Apr 23, 2021
D
Democratic29
100% Yea
R
Republican17
94% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
67
Key actions
7
Committee
7
Amendments
4
Aug 17, 2021
Signed into law
Governor Approved
upper
May 27, 2021
Upper · Passed
Passed Both Houses
upper
May 27, 2021
Lower · Passed
Third Reading - Consent Calendar - Passed 116-000-000
lower
May 12, 2021
Lower · Passed
Do Pass / Consent Calendar Higher Education Committee; 010-000-000
lower
May 4, 2021
Committee
Assigned to Higher Education Committee
lower
Apr 27, 2021
Committee
Referred to Rules Committee
lower
Apr 26, 2021
Introduced
Arrived in House
lower
Apr 23, 2021
Upper · Passed
Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000
upper
Apr 21, 2021
Upper · Passed
Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted; D. Turner
upper
Apr 14, 2021
Introduced
Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommend Do Adopt Higher Education; 012-000-000
upper
Apr 7, 2021
Introduced
Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Higher Education
upper
Mar 29, 2021
Committee
Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
upper
Mar 29, 2021
Introduced
Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Doris Turner
upper
Mar 16, 2021
Upper · Passed
Do Pass Higher Education; 014-000-000
upper
Mar 9, 2021
Committee
Assigned to Higher Education
upper
Feb 26, 2021
Committee
Referred to Assignments
upper
2 primary · 34 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Doris Turner
DDemocratic
P
Lance Yednock
DDemocratic
Co
Andrew Chesney
RRepublican
Co
Bill Cunningham
DDemocratic
Co
Brian W. Stewart
RRepublican
Co
Camille Lilly
DDemocratic
Co
Celina Villanueva
DDemocratic
Co
Chapin Rose
RRepublican
Co
Christopher Belt
DDemocratic
Co
Cristina Castro
DDemocratic
Co
Dale Fowler
RRepublican
Co
Dan Brady
RRepublican
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