Bill > HB5695

This bill appropriates funds for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, totaling $515,526,200, with $343,131,200 from General Funds, $121,395,000 from Other State Funds, and $51,000,000 from Federal Funds. Specifically, it allocates funds for various operational and programmatic costs, including general operational expenses, administrative and programmatic costs for community colleges participating in the Common App System, high school equivalency testing, grants to alternative schools, scholarships for Lincoln's Challenge Program graduates, educational expenses for the City Colleges of Chicago, small college grants, performance funding grants, the Illinois Longitudinal Data System, operating an educational facility in East St. Louis, transitional and developmental instruction, bridge and workforce programs, operating an educational facility in Belleville, trade schools, career and technical education activities, adult education and literacy, performance-based awards, reimbursements for Illinois Veterans Grant and Illinois National Guard Grant programs, grants for mental health early action on campus, advanced manufacturing and electric vehicle technologies programs, digital instruction for adult education, English-language services expansion, dual credit grants, non-credit workforce programs, a homelessness prevention grant program, and maintaining instructional technology. Additionally, it allocates funds from various specific funds like the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund, Education Assistance Fund, ICCB Research and Technology Fund, High School Equivalency Testing Fund, ICCB Contracts and Grants Fund, ICCB Federal Trust Fund, and ICCB Adult Education Fund for their respective purposes.

https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=5695&GAID=18&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=114&GA=104