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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB0678   Introduced 2/3/2015, by Sen. William E. Brady  SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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 Amends the Illinois State University Law to add 2 more voting members to the Board of Trustees. Makes related changes.
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| 1 |  |  AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 |  |  Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 |  | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 |  |  Section 5. The Illinois State University Law is amended by  | 
| 5 |  | changing Section 20-15 as follows:
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| 6 |  |  (110 ILCS 675/20-15)
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| 7 |  |  Sec. 20-15. Membership; terms; vacancies. The Board shall  | 
| 8 |  | consist of 9 7
voting members appointed by the Governor, by and  | 
| 9 |  | with the advice and consent
of the Senate, and one voting  | 
| 10 |  | member who is a student at Illinois State
University. The  | 
| 11 |  | student member shall be chosen by a campus-wide student
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| 12 |  | election. The student member shall serve a term of one year  | 
| 13 |  | beginning on July
1 of each year, except that the student  | 
| 14 |  | member initially selected shall serve
a term beginning on the  | 
| 15 |  | date of his or her selection and expiring on the next
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| 16 |  | succeeding June 30. To be eligible to remain as a student  | 
| 17 |  | member of the Board,
the student member must be a resident of  | 
| 18 |  | this State, must have and maintain a
grade point average that  | 
| 19 |  | is equivalent to at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale, and must
be a full  | 
| 20 |  | time student enrolled at all times
during his or her term of  | 
| 21 |  | office except for that part of the term which follows
the  | 
| 22 |  | completion of the last full regular semester of an academic  | 
| 23 |  | year and
precedes the first full regular semester of the  | 
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| 1 |  | succeeding academic year at the
university (sometimes commonly  | 
| 2 |  | referred to as the summer session or summer
school). If a  | 
| 3 |  | student member serving on the Board fails to
continue to meet  | 
| 4 |  | or maintain the residency, minimum grade point average, or
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| 5 |  | enrollment requirement established by this Section, his
or her  | 
| 6 |  | membership on the Board shall be deemed to have terminated by  | 
| 7 |  | operation
of law. Of the members first appointed by the  | 
| 8 |  | Governor, 4 shall be
appointed for terms to expire on the third  | 
| 9 |  | Monday in January, 1999,
and 3 shall be appointed for terms to  | 
| 10 |  | expire on the third Monday in January,
2001. One of the  | 
| 11 |  | additional members appointed by the Governor, by and with the
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| 12 |  | advice and consent of the Senate, under this amendatory Act of  | 
| 13 |  | the 99th General
Assembly, shall be appointed for
a term to  | 
| 14 |  | expire on the third Monday in January, 2019 and the other  | 
| 15 |  | additional member appointed by the Governor, by and with the
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| 16 |  | advice and consent of the Senate, under this amendatory Act of  | 
| 17 |  | the 99th General
Assembly, shall be appointed for
a term to  | 
| 18 |  | expire on the third Monday in January, 2021. If the Senate is  | 
| 19 |  | not in session on the effective date of this
Article, or if a  | 
| 20 |  | vacancy in an appointive membership occurs at a time when
the  | 
| 21 |  | Senate is not in session, the Governor shall make temporary
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| 22 |  | appointments until the next meeting of the Senate when he shall  | 
| 23 |  | nominate
persons to fill such memberships for the remainder of  | 
| 24 |  | their respective terms.
No more than 5 4 of the members  | 
| 25 |  | appointed by the Governor shall be
affiliated with the same  | 
| 26 |  | political party.
Each member appointed by the Governor must be  | 
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| 1 |  | a resident of this State. A
failure to meet or maintain this  | 
| 2 |  | residency requirement constitutes a
resignation from and  | 
| 3 |  | creates a vacancy in the Board.
Upon the expiration of the  | 
| 4 |  | terms
of members appointed by the Governor, their respective  | 
| 5 |  | successors shall be
appointed for terms of 6 years from the  | 
| 6 |  | third Monday in January of each
odd-numbered year.
Any members  | 
| 7 |  | appointed to the Board shall continue to serve in such capacity
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| 8 |  | until their successors are appointed and qualified.
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| 9 |  | (Source: P.A. 91-778, eff. 1-1-01;
91-798, eff. 7-9-00; 92-16,  | 
| 10 |  | eff. 6-28-01.)
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