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Public Act 91-0565
HB2218 Enrolled LRB9102194NTsbA
AN ACT to amend the Northeastern Illinois University Law
by changing Sections 25-15 and 25-25.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Northeastern Illinois University Law is
amended by changing Sections 25-15 and 25-25 as follows:
(110 ILCS 680/25-15)
Sec. 25-15. Membership; terms; vacancies. The Board
shall consist of 9 7 voting members who are residents of this
State and are appointed by the Governor by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, and, until July 1, 2001,
one voting member who is a student at Northeastern Illinois
University. The student member serving on the Board on the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 shall be a
voting student member for the remainder of his or her term on
the Board. Beginning on July 1, 2001, and thereafter, the
student member of the Board shall be a nonvoting member.
Beginning with the 1999-2000 academic year, the student
member shall be elected by a campus-wide referendum of all
students of the University. The method of selecting the
student member shall continue to be determined by a
campus-wide student referendum. The student member shall
serve a term of one year beginning on July 1 of each year,
except that the student member initially selected under this
amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly 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 undergraduate 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 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. If any member of the Board appointed by the
Governor fails to continue to meet or maintain the residency
requirement established by this Section, he or she shall
resign membership on the Board within 30 days thereafter and,
failing submission of this resignation, 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 until their successors are appointed and
qualified, and 3 shall be appointed for terms to expire on
the third Monday in January, 2001 and until their successors
are appointed and qualified. The 2 additional members
appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, under this amendatory Act of the 91st General
Assembly, shall not be from the same political party and
shall be appointed for terms to expire on the third Monday in
January, 2003 and until their successors are appointed and
qualified. Any vacancy in membership existing on January 1,
1999 shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, with the
advice and consent of the Senate, for a term to expire on the
third Monday in January, 2003. 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 to fill the vacancy. Members with these
temporary appointments shall be deemed qualified to serve
upon appointment and shall continue to serve until the next
meeting of the Senate when the Governor he shall appoint
nominate persons to fill such memberships, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, 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. Upon the expiration of the terms of members appointed
by the Governor for other than temporary appointments, their
respective successors shall be appointed, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, 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. 89-4, eff. 1-1-96; 90-630, eff. 7-24-98;
90-814, eff. 2-4-99.)
(110 ILCS 680/25-25)
Sec. 25-25. Officers; meetings. Members of the Board
appointed by the Governor shall elect annually by secret
ballot from their own number a chairperson, who shall serve
for a period of 2 years from his or her election and chairman
who shall preside over meetings of the Board, and a
secretary, and other officers that the Board deems necessary.
The secretary and other officers shall also serve for a
period of 2 years from their election.
Meetings of the Board shall be held at least once each
quarter on the campus of Northeastern Illinois University at
Chicago, Illinois. At all regular meetings of the Board, a
majority of its members shall constitute a quorum. The
student member shall have all of the privileges of
membership, including the right to make and second motions,
to attend executive sessions, and until July 1, 2001 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. Unless the student member
is entitled to vote on a measure at a meeting of the Board or
any of its committees, he or she 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
chairperson chairman of the Board or by any 4 3 members of
the Board.
(Source: P.A. 89-4, eff. 1-1-96; 90-630, eff. 7-24-98.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
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