Bill Text: IL SB1879 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Community College Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Illinois Community College Board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-20 - Referred to Assignments [SB1879 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB1879-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB1879 Introduced 2/20/2009, by Sen. J. Bradley Burzynski SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
110 ILCS 805/2-1 from Ch. 122, par. 102-1
Amends the Public Community College Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Illinois Community College Board.
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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 Section 2-1 as follows:
(110 ILCS 805/2-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 102-1)
Sec. 2-1. There is created the the Illinois Community
College Board hereinafter referred to as the "State Board". The
State Board shall consist of 12 members as follows: a nonvoting
student member selected by the recognized advisory committee of
students of the Illinois Community College Board, this student
to serve for 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 such selection and
expiring on the next succeeding June 30, and except that any
student member or former student member may be selected by the
recognized advisory committee of students of the State Board to
serve a second term as the nonvoting student member of the
State Board; and 11 members, one of whom shall be a senior
citizen age 60 or over, to be appointed by the Governor by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate. Beginning on July 1,
2005, one of the 11 members appointed by the Governor, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, must be a faculty

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member at an Illinois public community college. Also beginning
on July 1, 2005, one of the 11 members appointed by the
Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
must be a member of the board of trustees of a public community
college district. The membership requirements set forth in this
Section apply only to the State Board and shall have no effect
on the membership of the board of trustees of a community
college district. The members first appointed under this
amendatory Act of 1984 shall serve for a term of 6 years. After
the expiration of the terms of the office of the members first
appointed to the State Board, their respective successors shall
hold office for a term of 6 years and until their successors
are qualified and seated. In the event of vacancies on the
State Board in offices appointed by the Governor occurring
during a recess of the Senate, the Governor shall have the
power to make temporary appointments until the next meeting of
the Senate, when the vacancy shall be filled by nomination to
be confirmed by the Senate.
(Source: P.A. 94-157, eff. 7-8-05.)