Bill Text: IL SB0015 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning creation of the Board.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0015 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB0015-Engrossed.html

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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 Illinois State University Law is amended by
changing Section 20-15 as follows:
(110 ILCS 675/20-15)
Sec. 20-15. Membership; terms; vacancies. The Board shall
consist of 9 7 voting members appointed by the Governor, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, and one voting
member who is a student at Illinois State University. The
student member shall be chosen by a campus-wide student
election. The student member shall serve a term of one year
beginning on July 1 of each year, except that the student
member initially selected shall serve a term beginning on the
date of his or her selection and expiring on the next
succeeding June 30. To be eligible to remain as a student
member of the Board, the 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

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succeeding academic year at the university (sometimes commonly
referred to as the summer session or summer school). If a
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. Of the members first appointed by the
Governor, 4 shall be appointed for terms to expire on the third
Monday in January, 1999, and 3 shall be appointed for terms to
expire on the third Monday in January, 2001. One of the
additional members appointed by the Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, under this amendatory Act of
the 98th General Assembly, shall be appointed for a term to
expire on the third Monday in January, 2017 and the other
additional member appointed by the Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, under this amendatory Act of
the 98th General Assembly, shall be appointed for a term to
expire on the third Monday in January, 2019. If the Senate is
not in session on the effective date of this Article, or if a
vacancy in an appointive membership occurs at a time when the
Senate is not in session, the Governor shall make temporary
appointments until the next meeting of the Senate when he shall
nominate persons to fill such memberships for the remainder of
their respective terms. No more than 5 4 of the members
appointed by the Governor shall be affiliated with the same
political party. Each member appointed by the Governor must be

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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. Any members
appointed to the Board shall continue to serve in such capacity
until their successors are appointed and qualified.
(Source: P.A. 91-778, eff. 1-1-01; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00; 92-16,
eff. 6-28-01.)