SB2406 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB2406

Introduced 2/28/2013, by Sen. William R. Haine

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 serving on that effective date 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: at least 3 appointees shall hold an undergraduate or graduate degree from the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville campus and at least 3 appointees shall hold an undergraduate or graduate degree from the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale campus. Includes one additional voting 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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A BILL FOR

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 98th General Assembly, the terms of office of the members of the Board serving on that effective date shall terminate and the Board shall be reconstituted. After the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th 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: at least 3 appointees shall hold an undergraduate or graduate degree from the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville campus and at least 3 appointees shall hold an undergraduate or graduate degree from the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale campus. 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 one voting student members. member designated by the Governor from one campus of the University and one nonvoting student 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 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 98th 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 2016; 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 2018; and the terms of the remaining 3 members shall expire on the third Monday in January 2020. 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, 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 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 and , 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. 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.

(Source: P.A. 91-715, eff. 1-1-01; 91-778, eff. 1-1-01; 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)