Bill Amendment: IL SB2157 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: COM COL-TRUSTEE TRAINING

Status: 2016-07-29 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0692 [SB2157 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB2157-Senate_Amendment_001.html

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Sen. Bill Cunningham

Filed: 9/9/2015

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2157
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2157 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended by
adding Section 3-8.5 as follows:
(110 ILCS 805/3-8.5 new)
Sec. 3-8.5. Community college trustee's leadership
training.
(a) Every voting member of a board elected or appointed for
an elected trustee for a term beginning after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly shall
complete a minimum of 4 hours of professional development
leadership training covering topics in community college and
labor law, opening meetings law, freedom of information law,
ethics, sexual violence on campus, financial oversight and
accountability, audits, and fiduciary responsibilities of a

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community college trustee during the first, third, and fifth
year of his or her term. The community college district shall
maintain on its Internet website, if any, the names of all
elected voting trustees of the board who have successfully
completed the training.
(b) The training under this Section may be provided by an
association established under this Code for the purpose of
training community college district board trustees or by other
qualified providers approved by the State Board, in
consultation with an association so established.
(c) The board member shall certify completion of the
training required under this Section to the secretary of the
board. If the certification indicates that a board member has
not completed the training, the secretary shall send a notice
to the chairperson of the board and the president or acting
chief executive officer of the community college of that fact,
and the board shall suspend the member from continued service,
at which point, the member has 45 days to complete all training
deemed incomplete as provided by the certification. Failure of
the board member to complete the necessary training within this
probationary period constitutes a resignation from and creates
a vacancy in the board, which vacancy shall be filled as
provided under subsection (d) of Section 3-7 of this Act.
(d) This Section applies to all community college districts
with elected board trustees serving pursuant to this Article
who have been elected after the effective date of this

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amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly or appointed to
fill a vacancy of at least one year's duration of an elected
trustee after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
99th General Assembly.".