Flinn Report. Illinois Regulation

              Illinois Regulation is a summary of the weekly regulatory decisions of State agencies published in the Illinois Register and action
taken by the Illinois General Assembly's Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. Illinois Regulation is designed to inform and
involve the public in changes taking place in agency administration.
VOL. 35 Issue 53
Regulation Illinois
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New Regulations
Proposed
Regulations
NEW REGULATIONS: Rules adopted by agencies this week.
PROPOSED REGULATIONS: Rules proposed by agencies this week, commencing a 45-day First Notice period. Public comments must be accepted
by the agency for the period of time indicated.
: Symbol designating rules of special interest to small businesses, small municipalities, and not-for-profit corporations. Agencies are required to consider
comments from these groups and minimize the regulatory burden on them.
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December 30, 2011
Claire B. Eberle, Editor Joint Committee on Administrative Rules 700 Stratton Office Bldg., Springfield IL 62706
Elaine Spencer, Assoc. Editor Illinois General Assembly 217/785-2254 ilga.gov/commission/jcar
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HIGHER EDUCATION GRANTS
The BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCA-TION
adopted a new Part titled "Col-laborative
Baccalaureate Degree De-velopment
Grant Program" (23 Ill Adm
Code 1090; 35 Ill Reg 9217), effective
12/14/11. The program provides grants
to assist the start-up of cooperative
partnerships that provide upper-level
classes to students at or near their
local community colleges but that are
part of the curriculum of, and are
administered by, a 4-year public or
private nonprofit Illinois university.
Eligibility for the program requires a
partnership between one or more com-munity
colleges and one or more 4-
year Illinois institutions, and they must
provide a combined investment equal
to at least 50% of the grant amount.
Both new and existing partnerships
may be eligible if they provide a bac-calaureate
completion program that
was not previously offered. Proposals
to continue funding for a 2nd or 3rd year
must demonstrate a 75% partner re-tention
rate or show low student attri-tion.
Application review criteria in-clude
evidence that the program (1)
will meet a regional or State need, (2)
includes innovative approaches or
methods, (3) uses existing resources,
(4) will effectively use grant funds, and
(5) will enroll adequate numbers of
students. The partnering institutions'
record of delivering programs in an
effective manner must be satisfactory,
and an agreed pathway must exist
between the community college
classes and the 4-year degree pro-gram.
Grant funds may be used for
instructional space, facility training
and education, instructional technol-ogy
tools, marketing and promotion,
salaries, access to resources and ser-vices,
faculty and administrator travel,
auditors, and experience-based learn-ing
opportunities. The rulemaking also
includes definitions, details on grant
agreements, and auditing require-ments.
This rulemaking may affect
municipalities, other units of local
government, institutions of higher
learning, small businesses, and not-for-
profits to the extent that they be-come
involved in promoting or par-ticipating
in a partnership for workforce
training that leads to a baccalaureate
degree.
Questions/requests for copies: Karen
Helland, BHE, 431 East Adams Street,
2nd Floor, Springfield Illinois 62701, 217/
557-7358, Fax 217/782-8548, e-mail:
helland@ibhe.org.
 FORECLOSURE PREVENTION
The ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOP-MENT
AUTHORITY proposed a new
Part titled "Foreclosure Prevention
Program" (47 Ill Adm Code 385; 35 Ill
Reg 20988) to implement Public Act
96-1419. An identical emergency
rulemaking was adopted in the 12/23/
11 Illinois Register, effective 12/12/11,
at 35 Ill Reg 20742. The Authority will
administer the new Foreclosure Pre-vention
Program Fund from which
grants will be awarded to community-based
organizations and counseling
agencies for "eligible users" in order
to provide housing counseling and
foreclosure prevention. Grants will go
to both Chicago and non-Chicago
entities, and Chicago will also receive
funds to cover administrative ex-penses.
Covered topics include grant
applicant eligibility criteria, eligible
grant uses, the application process,
grant monitoring, and required re-ports.
Those affected by this rule-making
include counseling agencies
certified by the federal Housing De-velopment
Authority and nonprofit
entities that provide pre-purchase and
post-purchase home ownership coun-seling,
education about the foreclo-sure
process and homeowner options,
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