Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. With respect to the Monetary Award Program, provides that the maximum grant amount must not exceed $5,468 for fiscal year 2009, $5,968 for fiscal year 2010, and $6,468 for fiscal year 2011 and each fiscal year thereafter (instead of $4,968). Provides that the maximum grant amount for students not subject to this provision must be increased by the same percentage as any increase made by law to such provision. Removes the provision that limits the grant amount to an amount that equals 2 semesters or 3 quarters tuition and fees. Effective July 1, 2008.
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Amends the School Code. Adds homeownership, including the basic process of obtaining a mortgage and the concepts of fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, subprime loans, and predatory lending, as part of the financial literacy component of consumer education.
Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Females, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Extends the repeal date of the Act from September 6, 2008 to June 30, 2010. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Judge Eugene Pincham of Chicago.
Congratulates Ms. Ethel Hamilton of Chicago on her 75th birthday.
Congratulates Vernice Armour on her many accomplishments and thanks her for speaking to the Illinois House of Representatives in honor of Women's History Month.
Congratulates Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. on the occasion of his retirement from the Trinity United Church of Christ.
Urges each police department to submit an annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the number of persons killed by its police officers in the preceding calendar year, specifying the race of the officer, the race of the victim, the age of the victim, and the method by which the victim was killed.
Mourns the death of Donald Young of Chicago.
Mourns the death of Reverend Barbara Jean Allen of Chicago.