Bill Text: IL HB3135 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides that members of the board of trustees of a community college district elected in 2017 shall be elected to serve a 2-year term and members elected in 2019 and thereafter shall be elected to serve 4-year terms (rather than members being elected to serve 6-year terms). Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 10-4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3135 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB3135-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,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 3-7 as follows:
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6 | (110 ILCS 805/3-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-7)
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7 | Sec. 3-7. (a) The election of the members of the board of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | trustees
shall be nonpartisan and shall be held at the time and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | in the manner provided
in the general election law.
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10 | (b) Unless otherwise provided in this Act, members shall be | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | elected to
serve 6
year terms. However, members elected in 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | shall be elected to serve a 2-year term and members elected in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | 2019 and thereafter shall be elected to serve 4-year terms. The | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | term of members elected in 1985 and thereafter shall be from
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15 | the date the member is officially determined to be elected to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | the board by
a canvass conducted pursuant to the Election Code, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | to the date that the
winner of the seat is officially | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | determined by the canvass conducted
pursuant to the Election | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Code the next time the seat on the board is to be
filled by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | election.
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21 | (c) Each member must on the date of his election be a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | citizen of the
United
States, of the age of 18 years or over, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | and a resident of the State and
the territory which on the date |
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1 | of the election is included in the
community college district | ||||||
2 | for at least one year immediately preceding
his election.
In | ||||||
3 | Community College District No. 526,
each member elected at the | ||||||
4 | consolidated election in 2005 or thereafter must
also be a | ||||||
5 | resident of the trustee
district he or she represents for at | ||||||
6 | least one year immediately preceding
his or her election, | ||||||
7 | except that in the first consolidated election for each
trustee | ||||||
8 | district following reapportionment, a candidate for the board
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9 | may be elected from any trustee district that contains a part | ||||||
10 | of the
trustee district in which he or she resided at the time | ||||||
11 | of the
reapportionment and may be reelected if a resident of | ||||||
12 | the new trustee district
he
or she represents for one year | ||||||
13 | prior to reelection.
In the event a person who is a member of a | ||||||
14 | common school
board is elected or appointed to a board of | ||||||
15 | trustees of a community college
district, that person shall be | ||||||
16 | permitted to serve the remainder of his or
her term of office | ||||||
17 | as a member of the common school board. Upon the
expiration of | ||||||
18 | the common school board term, that person shall not be
eligible | ||||||
19 | for election or appointment to a common school board during the
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20 | term of office with the community college district board of | ||||||
21 | trustees.
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22 | (d) Whenever a vacancy occurs, the remaining members shall | ||||||
23 | fill the
vacancy, and the person so appointed shall serve until | ||||||
24 | a successor is
elected at the next regular election for board | ||||||
25 | members and is certified in
accordance with Sections 22-17 and | ||||||
26 | 22-18 of the Election Code. If the
remaining members fail so to |
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1 | act within 60 days after the vacancy occurs,
the chairman of | ||||||
2 | the State Board shall fill that vacancy, and the person so
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3 | appointed shall serve until a successor is elected at the next | ||||||
4 | regular
election for board members and is certified in | ||||||
5 | accordance with Sections
22-17 and 22-18 of the Election Code. | ||||||
6 | The person appointed to fill the
vacancy shall have the same | ||||||
7 | residential qualifications as his predecessor
in office was | ||||||
8 | required to have. In either instance, if the vacancy occurs
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9 | with less than 4 months remaining before the next scheduled | ||||||
10 | consolidated
election, and the term of office of the board | ||||||
11 | member vacating the position
is not scheduled to expire at that | ||||||
12 | election, then the term of the person so
appointed shall extend | ||||||
13 | through that election and until the succeeding
consolidated | ||||||
14 | election. If the term of office of the board
member vacating | ||||||
15 | the position is scheduled to expire at the upcoming
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16 | consolidated election, the appointed member shall serve
only | ||||||
17 | until a successor is elected and qualified at that election.
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18 | (e) Members of the board shall serve without compensation | ||||||
19 | but shall be
reimbursed for their reasonable expenses incurred | ||||||
20 | in connection with
their service as members. Compensation, for | ||||||
21 | purposes of this Section, means
any salary or other benefits | ||||||
22 | not expressly authorized by this Act to be
provided or paid to, | ||||||
23 | for or on behalf of members of the board. The board
of each | ||||||
24 | community college district may adopt a policy providing for the
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25 | issuance of bank credit cards, for use by any board member who | ||||||
26 | requests the
same in writing and agrees to use the card only |
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1 | for the reasonable expenses
which he or she incurs in | ||||||
2 | connection with his or her service as a board
member. Expenses | ||||||
3 | charged to such credit cards shall be accounted for
separately | ||||||
4 | and shall be submitted to the chief financial officer of the
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5 | district for review prior to being reported to the board at its | ||||||
6 | next
regular meeting.
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7 | (f) Except in an election of the initial board for a new | ||||||
8 | community
college
district created pursuant to Section 6-6.1, | ||||||
9 | the ballot for the election of
members of the board for a | ||||||
10 | community college district shall indicate the
length of term | ||||||
11 | for each office to be filled. In the election of a board
for | ||||||
12 | any community college district, the ballot shall not contain | ||||||
13 | any
political party designation.
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14 | (Source: P.A. 97-539, eff. 8-23-11.)
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15 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
16 | becoming law.
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