Bill Text: IL HB5521 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Southern Illinois University Management Act. Replaces the Superintendent of Public Instruction as a voting member of the SIU Board of Trustees by making the second student member (currently non-voting) a voting member of the Board. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5521 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB5521-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB5521 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel V. Beiser SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
110 ILCS 520/2 from Ch. 144, par. 652
Amends the Southern Illinois University Management Act. Replaces the Superintendent of Public Instruction as a voting member of the SIU Board of Trustees by making the second student member (currently non-voting) a voting member of the Board. 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 Southern Illinois University Management Act
is amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
(110 ILCS 520/2) (from Ch. 144, par. 652)
Sec. 2. The Board shall consist of 7 members appointed by
the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or his chief
assistant for liaison with higher education when designated to
serve in his place, ex-officio, and 2 one voting student
members member designated by the Governor from one campus of
the University and one nonvoting student member from the campus
of the University not represented by the voting student member.
The Governor shall designate one of the student members serving
on the Board to serve as the voting student member. Each
student member shall be chosen by the respective campuses of
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and Edwardsville.
The method of choosing these student members shall be by
campus-wide student election, and any student designated by the
Governor to be a voting student member shall be one of the
students chosen by this method. The student members shall serve
terms of one year beginning on July 1 of each year, except that

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the student members initially selected shall serve a term
beginning on the date of such selection and expiring on the
next succeeding June 30. To be eligible for selection as a
student member and to be eligible to remain as a voting or
nonvoting student member of the Board, a student member must be
a resident of this State, must have and maintain a grade point
average that is equivalent to at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale, and
must be a full time student enrolled at all times during his or
her term of office except for that part of the term which
follows the completion of the last full regular semester of an
academic year and precedes the first full regular semester of
the succeeding academic year at the university (sometimes
commonly referred to as the summer session or summer school).
If a voting or nonvoting student member serving on the Board
fails to continue to meet or maintain the residency, minimum
grade point average, or enrollment requirement established by
this Section, his or her membership on the Board shall be
deemed to have terminated by operation of law. No more than 4
of the members appointed by the Governor shall be affiliated
with the same political party. Each member appointed by the
Governor must be a resident of this State. A failure to meet or
maintain this residency requirement constitutes a resignation
from and creates a vacancy in the Board. Upon the expiration of
the terms of members appointed by the Governor, their
respective successors shall be appointed for terms of 6 years
from the third Monday in January of each odd-numbered year and

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until their respective successors are appointed for like terms.
If the Senate is not in session appointments shall be made as
in the case of vacancies.
(Source: P.A. 91-778, eff. 1-1-01; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00; 92-16,
eff. 6-28-01.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.