HB3428eng 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB3428 Engrossed LRB099 10542 NHT 30769 b

AN ACT concerning education.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The College and Career Success for All Students Act is amended by adding Section 30 as follows:

(105 ILCS 302/30 new)

Sec. 30. Examination; postsecondary level course credit.

(a) In this Section, "institution of higher education" means a public university or public community college located in this State.

(b) The Illinois Articulation Initiative, through its Major panels and General Education panels, shall review each of the College Board Advanced Placement examinations and assign codes for transfer. All courses, Advanced Placement or otherwise, assigned codes for transfer through the Illinois Articulation Initiative must be guaranteed transfer credit as an individual course and not be required to be part of a package of courses. The review must be completed within 6 months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. Any review thereafter for any new or substantially revised examinations must be completed within 6 months after being released by the College Board.

(c) Institutions of higher education that offer a corresponding course for a particular Advanced Placement examination are required to accept a student's score of 3 or higher on the Advanced Placement examination for postsecondary level course credit as a part of their general education degree requirements, if applicable, or for an elective credit if not. If an institution of higher education does not offer a corresponding course for a particular Advanced Placement examination, then the institution shall award, at a minimum, elective postsecondary level course credit toward general education degree requirements for those students who receive a score of 3 or higher on the Advanced Placement examination.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.