Bill Text: IL HB2243 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning creation of the Board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HB2243 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB2243-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Board of Higher Education Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 2 as follows:
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| 6 | (110 ILCS 205/2) (from Ch. 144, par. 182)
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| 7 | Sec. 2. There is created a Board of Higher Education to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | consist of 16
members as follows: 10 members appointed by the
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| 9 | the Governor, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate; | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | one member of a public university
governing board, appointed | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | by the Governor without the advice and consent of
the Senate; | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | one member of a private college or university board of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | trustees,
appointed by the Governor without the advice and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | consent of the Senate; the
chairman of the Illinois Community | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | College Board; the
chairman of the Illinois Student Assistance | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | Commission; and 2 student members
selected by the recognized | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | advisory committee of students of the Board of
Higher | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | Education, one of whom must be a non-traditional undergraduate | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | student who is at least 24 years old and represents the views | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | of non-traditional students, such as a person who is employed | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | or is a parent. One of the 10 members appointed
by the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | must be a
faculty member at an Illinois public university. The | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | Governor shall
designate the
Chairman of the Board to
serve | ||||||
| 2 | until a successor is designated.
No more than 7 of the members | ||||||
| 3 | appointed by the Governor, excluding the
Chairman, shall be | ||||||
| 4 | affiliated
with the same political party. The 10 members | ||||||
| 5 | appointed by
the Governor with the advice and
consent of the | ||||||
| 6 | Senate shall be citizens of the State and shall be
selected, as | ||||||
| 7 | far as may be practicable, on the basis of their knowledge
of, | ||||||
| 8 | or interest or experience in, problems of higher education. If | ||||||
| 9 | the
Senate is not in session or is in recess, when appointments | ||||||
| 10 | subject to
its confirmation are made, the Governor shall make | ||||||
| 11 | temporary
appointments which shall be subject to subsequent | ||||||
| 12 | Senate approval. | ||||||
| 13 | (Source: P.A. 100-167, eff. 1-1-18.)
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