Bill Text: IL HB3944 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Community College Act. Requires the student member of the Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 536 to be a voting (rather than nonvoting) student member. Permits the board of trustees of any other community college district to elect to allow a student member to be a voting student member. Provides that if a board decides to terminate or not renew the employment contract of the president of a community college, then, for one year after the decision was voted upon, no person who was a member of the board at the time of the vote may be selected to serve as president of the community college. Makes related changes. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-12-16 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3944 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB3944-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB3944 Introduced , by Rep. Monica Bristow SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
110 ILCS 805/3-7.24 from Ch. 122, par. 103-7.24
110 ILCS 805/3-9 from Ch. 122, par. 103-9
110 ILCS 805/3-80 new
Amends the Public Community College Act. Requires the student member of the Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 536 to be a voting (rather than nonvoting) student member. Permits the board of trustees of any other community college district to elect to allow a student member to be a voting student member. Provides that if a board decides to terminate or not renew the employment contract of the president of a community college, then, for one year after the decision was voted upon, no person who was a member of the board at the time of the vote may be selected to serve as president of the community college. Makes related changes. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended by
changing Sections 3-7.24 and 3-9 and by adding Section 3-80 as
follows:
(110 ILCS 805/3-7.24) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-7.24)
Sec. 3-7.24. Student board member.
(a) Each community college board shall have one non-voting
member who is a student enrolled in the community college under
the jurisdiction of the board. One non-voting student member
shall also be selected in multi-campus districts to represent
all campuses in those districts. In multi-campus districts, the
campus from which the member is selected shall be determined by
lot each year, provided that no campus shall twice have
selected a non-voting student member until all campuses in the
district have once been represented on the district board. The
same procedure shall be followed until all campuses have been
represented a second time, a third time, and subsequent times.
The method of selecting these student members shall be
determined by campus-wide student referendum.
(b) A The student member members shall serve a term of one
year beginning on April 15 of each year, except that the

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student member initially selected shall serve a term beginning
on the date of selection and expiring on the next succeeding
June 30.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a
student member shall be a nonvoting student member. Nonvoting
The nonvoting student members shall have all of the privileges
of membership, including the right to make and second motions
and to attend executive sessions, other than the right to vote.
(d) The student member of the Board of Trustees of
Community College District No. 536 shall be a voting student
member. The board of any other community college district may
elect to allow a student member to be a voting student member.
A voting student member shall have all of the privileges of
membership, including the right to make and second motions and
to attend executive sessions and the right to vote on all board
matters except those involving faculty tenure, faculty
promotion, or any issue on which the student member has a
direct conflict of interest. For the purposes of this
subsection (d), the student member shall not be deemed to have
a direct conflict of interest in and may vote on any item
involving the employment or compensation of the president of
the community college or the election of officers.
(Source: P.A. 80-730.)
(110 ILCS 805/3-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-9)
Sec. 3-9. A majority of full voting membership of the Board

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shall constitute a quorum. However, a voting student member who
is not entitled to vote on a measure at a meeting of the Board
or any of its committees shall not be considered a member for
the purpose of determining whether a quorum is present at the
time that measure is voted upon. For all meetings of the Board,
a quorum of members must be physically present at the location
of the meeting. When a vote is taken upon any measure before
the Board, a quorum being present, a majority of the members
voting on the measure shall determine the outcome thereof. No
action of such board shall be invalidated by reason of any
vacancies on such board, or by reason of any failure to select
any nonvoting student members.
(Source: P.A. 95-117, eff. 8-13-07.)
(110 ILCS 805/3-80 new)
Sec. 3-80. Termination or nonrenewal of employment
contract; president. If a board decides to terminate or not
renew the employment contract of the president of a community
college, then, for one year after the decision was voted upon,
no person who was a member of the board at the time of the vote
may be selected to serve as president of the community college.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.