Bill Text: IL HB5521 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5521 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB5521-Introduced.html
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
1 | AN ACT concerning education.
| |||||||||||||||||||
2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
| |||||||||||||||||||
4 | Section 5. The Southern Illinois University Management Act | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | is amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
| |||||||||||||||||||
6 | (110 ILCS 520/2) (from Ch. 144, par. 652)
| |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 2.
The Board shall consist of 7 members appointed by | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Senate , | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, or his chief | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | assistant for liaison with higher education when
designated to | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | serve in his place, ex-officio , and 2 one voting student | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | members member
designated by the Governor from one campus of | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | the University and one nonvoting
student member from the campus | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | of the University not represented by the voting
student member. | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | The Governor shall designate one of the student members
serving | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | on the Board to serve as the voting student member . Each | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | student
member shall be chosen by the respective campuses of | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale and Edwardsville. | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | The method of choosing these
student members shall be by | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | campus-wide student election , and any student
designated by the | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | Governor to be a voting student member shall be one of the
| |||||||||||||||||||
22 | students chosen by this method . The student members shall serve | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | terms of one
year beginning on July 1 of each year, except that |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | the student members
initially selected shall serve a term | ||||||
2 | beginning on the date of such selection
and expiring on the | ||||||
3 | next succeeding June 30. To be eligible for selection as
a | ||||||
4 | student member and to be eligible to remain as a voting or | ||||||
5 | nonvoting student
member of the Board, a student member must be | ||||||
6 | a resident of this State, must
have and maintain a grade point | ||||||
7 | average that is equivalent to at least 2.5
on a 4.0 scale, and | ||||||
8 | must be a full time student enrolled at all times during
his or | ||||||
9 | her term of office except for that part of the term which | ||||||
10 | follows
the completion of the last full regular semester of an | ||||||
11 | academic year and
precedes the first full regular semester of | ||||||
12 | the succeeding academic year at
the university (sometimes | ||||||
13 | commonly referred to as the summer session or summer
school). | ||||||
14 | If a voting or nonvoting student member serving on the Board | ||||||
15 | fails
to continue to meet or maintain the residency, minimum | ||||||
16 | grade point average, or
enrollment requirement established by | ||||||
17 | this Section, his or her membership on
the Board shall be | ||||||
18 | deemed to have terminated by operation of law. No more than
4 | ||||||
19 | of the members appointed by the Governor shall be affiliated | ||||||
20 | with the same
political party. Each member appointed by the | ||||||
21 | Governor must be a resident of
this State. A failure to meet or | ||||||
22 | maintain this residency requirement
constitutes a resignation | ||||||
23 | from and creates a vacancy in the Board. Upon the
expiration of | ||||||
24 | the terms of members appointed by the Governor, their | ||||||
25 | respective
successors shall be appointed for terms of 6 years | ||||||
26 | from the third Monday in
January of each odd-numbered year and |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | until their respective successors are
appointed for like terms. | ||||||
2 | If the Senate is not in session appointments shall
be made as | ||||||
3 | in the case of vacancies.
| ||||||
4 | (Source: P.A. 91-778, eff. 1-1-01; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00; 92-16, | ||||||
5 | eff.
6-28-01 .)
| ||||||
6 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
7 | becoming law.
|