Signed by Governor JB Pritzker

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill to require the board of higher education to establish a hunger-free campus grant program in Illinois

Highlights:

• Establishes the hunger-free campus grant program (Sec. 10)

• Specifies the objectives of the hunger-free grant program as to help provide academic institutions with grants to ensure adequate nutrition and access to basic foodstuffs (Sec. 10).

• Specifies that the grant funding shall be used for the purposes of the following (Sec. 10): 

• Addressing student hunger; 

• Leveraging currently existing programs to best ensure basic food security;

• Raising awareness of existing programs; 

• Building specific partnerships at the state and local levels. 

• Specifies what needs to be done for an academic institution to be considered a hunger free campus including instituting programs for SNAP (Sec. 10).

• Specifies that the board shall provide funding based on need as well as campuses that serve primarily minority and low-income students and have a high percentage of Pell Grant recipients (Sec. 10). 

• Requires the board to submit a report to the governor (Sec. 10). 

• Establish the hunger free campus grant program fund under the state treasury (Sec. 10).

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