Bill Text: IL HB5860 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Southern Illinois University Management Act. Provides that on the effective date of the amendatory Act, the terms of office of the members of the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University shall terminate and the Board shall be reconstituted. With regard to the 7 members of the Board appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, specifies that after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the 7 members shall be appointed as follows: 3 appointees shall hold an undergraduate or graduate degree from the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville campus, 3 appointees shall hold an undergraduate or graduate degree from the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale campus, and one appointee must not have attended Southern Illinois University at all. Changes the voting student member to an additional nonvoting student member, and deletes provisions concerning the designation of a voting student member and a nonvoting student member; makes related changes. Sets forth provisions concerning the expiration of the terms of the 7 initial members appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, pursuant to the amendatory Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5860 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB5860-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB5860 Introduced , by Rep. Monica Bristow SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
110 ILCS 520/2 from Ch. 144, par. 652
110 ILCS 520/4 from Ch. 144, par. 654
110 ILCS 520/5 from Ch. 144, par. 655
Amends the Southern Illinois University Management Act. Provides that on the effective date of the amendatory Act, the terms of office of the members of the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University shall terminate and the Board shall be reconstituted. With regard to the 7 members of the Board appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, specifies that after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the 7 members shall be appointed as follows: 3 appointees shall hold an undergraduate or graduate degree from the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville campus, 3 appointees shall hold an undergraduate or graduate degree from the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale campus, and one appointee must not have attended Southern Illinois University at all. Changes the voting student member to an additional nonvoting student member, and deletes provisions concerning the designation of a voting student member and a nonvoting student member; makes related changes. Sets forth provisions concerning the expiration of the terms of the 7 initial members appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, pursuant to the amendatory Act.
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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 Sections 2, 4, and 5 as follows:
(110 ILCS 520/2) (from Ch. 144, par. 652)
Sec. 2. On the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
100th General Assembly, the terms of office of the members of
the Board shall terminate and the Board shall be reconstituted.
After the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th
General Assembly, the The Board shall consist of 7 members
appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, as follows: 3 appointees shall hold an
undergraduate or graduate degree from the Southern Illinois
University at Edwardsville campus, 3 appointees shall hold an
undergraduate or graduate degree from the Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale campus, and one appointee must not
have attended Southern Illinois University at all. The Board
shall also consist of 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 nonvoting
one voting student members. member designated by the Governor
from one campus of the University and one nonvoting student

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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 selected chosen by
the respective campuses of Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale and Edwardsville. The method of selecting 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 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

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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. The terms of the members appointed by the
Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
pursuant to this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly
shall expire as follows: the terms of one member each from the
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville campus and the
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale campus shall expire
on the third Monday in January 2021; the terms of one member
each from the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
campus and the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
campus shall expire on the third Monday in January 2022; and
the terms of the remaining 3 members shall expire on the third
Monday in January 2025. 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 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,

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eff. 6-28-01.)
(110 ILCS 520/4) (from Ch. 144, par. 654)
Sec. 4. Members of the Board shall serve without
compensation but shall be entitled to reasonable amounts for
expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their
duties. Such expenses incurred by any non-voting student member
may, at the discretion of the Chairman of the Board, be
provided for by advance payment to such member, who shall
account therefor to the Board immediately after each meeting.
No member of the Board shall hold or be employed in or
appointed to any office or place under the authority of the
Board, nor shall any member of the Board be directly or
indirectly interested in any contract made by the Board, nor
shall he be an employee of the State Government. This section
does not prohibit the student members of the Board from
maintaining normal and official status as enrolled students or
normal student employment at Southern Illinois University.
(Source: P.A. 93-1096, eff. 1-1-06.)
(110 ILCS 520/5) (from Ch. 144, par. 655)
Sec. 5. Members of the Board shall elect annually by secret
ballot from their own number a chairman who shall preside over
meetings of the Board and a secretary.
Meetings of the Board shall be held at least once each
quarter on a campus of Southern Illinois University. At all

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regular meetings of the Board, a majority of its voting members
shall constitute a quorum. The 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, except that the student member designated by
the Governor as the voting student member shall have 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 Section, a 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 Chancellor at
any campus or the President of the University or the election
of officers. A 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. No action of the Board shall be invalidated by reason of
any vacancies on the Board, or by reason of any failure to
select a student member.
Special meetings of the Board may be called by the chairman
of the Board or by any 3 members of the Board.
At each regular and special meeting that is open to the
public, members of the public and employees of the University
shall be afforded time, subject to reasonable constraints, to
make comments to or ask questions of the Board.

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(Source: P.A. 99-734, eff. 8-5-16.)