Full Text of SB3713 96th General Assembly
SB3713 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 SB3713
Introduced 2/11/2010, by Sen. Michael W. Frerichs SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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110 ILCS 310/1 |
from Ch. 144, par. 41 |
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Amends the University of Illinois Trustees Act. Provides that one of the 9 members of the Board of Trustees appointed by the Governor must be involved in agricultural pursuits. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The University of Illinois Trustees Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
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| (110 ILCS 310/1) (from Ch. 144, par. 41)
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| Sec. 1.
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | 8 |
| shall consist
of the Governor and at least 12 trustees. Nine | 9 |
| trustees shall be
appointed by the Governor, by and with the | 10 |
| advice and consent of
the Senate. The other trustees shall be | 11 |
| students, of whom one student shall
be selected from each | 12 |
| University campus.
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| Each student trustee shall serve a term of one year, | 14 |
| beginning on July 1 or
on the date of his or her selection, | 15 |
| whichever is later, and expiring on the
next succeeding June | 16 |
| 30.
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| Each trustee shall have all of the privileges of | 18 |
| membership, except that only
one student trustee shall have the | 19 |
| right to cast a legally binding vote. The
Governor shall | 20 |
| designate which one of the student trustees shall possess, for
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| his or her entire term, the right to cast a legally binding | 22 |
| vote. Each student
trustee who does not possess the right to | 23 |
| cast a legally binding vote shall
have the right to cast an |
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| advisory vote and the right to make and second
motions and to | 2 |
| attend executive sessions.
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| Each trustee shall be governed by the same conflict of | 4 |
| interest standards.
Pursuant to those standards, it shall not | 5 |
| be a conflict of interest for a
student trustee to vote on | 6 |
| matters pertaining to students generally, such as
tuition and | 7 |
| fees. However, it shall be a conflict of interest for a student
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| trustee to vote on
faculty member
tenure or promotion.
Student | 9 |
| trustees shall be chosen by campus-wide
student election, and | 10 |
| the
student trustee designated by the Governor to
possess a | 11 |
| legally binding vote shall be
one of the students selected by | 12 |
| this method. A student trustee who does not
possess a legally | 13 |
| binding vote on a
measure at a meeting of the
Board or any of | 14 |
| its committees shall not be considered a trustee
for the | 15 |
| purpose
of determining whether a quorum is present at the time | 16 |
| that measure is voted
upon. To be eligible for selection as a
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| student trustee
and
to be eligible to remain as a voting or | 18 |
| nonvoting student trustee,
a student trustee must be a resident | 19 |
| of this State,
must have and maintain a
grade point average | 20 |
| that is equivalent to at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale, and must
be a | 21 |
| full time student enrolled at all times during his or her term | 22 |
| of office
except
for that part of the term which follows
the | 23 |
| completion of the last full regular semester of an academic | 24 |
| year and
precedes the first full regular semester of the | 25 |
| succeeding academic year at the
University (sometimes commonly | 26 |
| referred to as the summer
session or summer
school). If a |
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| voting or nonvoting student trustee
fails to
continue to meet | 2 |
| or maintain the residency, minimum grade point average, or
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| enrollment requirement established by this Section, his
or her | 4 |
| membership on the Board shall be deemed to have terminated by | 5 |
| operation
of law.
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| If a voting student trustee resigns or otherwise ceases to | 7 |
| serve on the
Board, the Governor shall, within 30 days, | 8 |
| designate one of the remaining
student trustees to possess the | 9 |
| right to cast a legally binding vote
for the remainder of his | 10 |
| or her term. If a nonvoting student trustee resigns
or
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| otherwise ceases to serve on the Board, the chief executive of | 12 |
| the
student government from that campus shall, within 30 days, | 13 |
| select
a new nonvoting student trustee to serve for the | 14 |
| remainder of the term.
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| No more than 5 of the 9 appointed trustees
shall be | 16 |
| affiliated
with the same political party. One of the 9 members | 17 |
| of the Board of Trustees appointed by the Governor must be | 18 |
| involved in agricultural pursuits.
Each trustee appointed by | 19 |
| the Governor must be a resident of this State. A
failure to | 20 |
| meet
or maintain this residency requirement constitutes a | 21 |
| resignation from and
creates a
vacancy in the Board.
The term | 22 |
| of office of each appointed trustee
shall be 6 years from the | 23 |
| third Monday in January of each odd numbered year.
The regular | 24 |
| terms of office of the
appointed trustees shall be staggered so | 25 |
| that 3 terms expire in each
odd-numbered year.
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| Vacancies for appointed trustees shall be filled for the |
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| unexpired term
in the same manner as
original appointments. If | 2 |
| a vacancy in membership occurs at a time when the
Senate is not | 3 |
| in session, the Governor shall make temporary appointments | 4 |
| until
the next meeting of the Senate, when he shall appoint | 5 |
| persons to fill such
memberships for the remainder of their | 6 |
| respective terms. If the Senate is not
in session when | 7 |
| appointments for a full term are made, appointments shall be
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| made as in the case of vacancies.
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| No action of the board shall be invalidated by reason of | 10 |
| any vacancies on
the board, or by reason of any failure to | 11 |
| select student trustees.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-778, eff. 1-1-01; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00;
92-16, | 13 |
| eff. 6-28-01.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 15 |
| becoming law.
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