Full Text of HB1965 94th General Assembly
HB1965 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB1965
Introduced 2/14/2005, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Kevin A. McCarthy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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110 ILCS 520/8 |
from Ch. 144, par. 658 |
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Amends the Southern Illinois University Management Act. Makes a technical
change in a Section concerning the Board of Trustees' powers and duties.
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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, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Southern Illinois University Management Act | 5 |
| is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
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| (110 ILCS 520/8) (from Ch. 144, par. 658)
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| Sec. 8. Powers and Duties of the Board. The
The Board shall | 8 |
| have power and
it shall be its duty:
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| 1. To make rules, regulations and by-laws, not | 10 |
| inconsistent with
law, for the government and management of | 11 |
| Southern Illinois University
and its branches;
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| 2. To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a | 13 |
| president of Southern
Illinois University, and all | 14 |
| necessary deans, professors, associate
professors, | 15 |
| assistant professors, instructors, and other educational | 16 |
| and
administrative assistants, and all other necessary | 17 |
| employees, and
contract with them upon matters relating to | 18 |
| tenure, salaries and
retirement benefits in accordance | 19 |
| with the State Universities Civil Service
Act; the Board | 20 |
| shall, upon the written request of an employee of Southern
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| Illinois University, withhold from the compensation of | 22 |
| that employee any
dues, payments or contributions payable | 23 |
| by such employee to any labor
organization as defined in | 24 |
| the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act.
Under such | 25 |
| arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular
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| payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the | 27 |
| annual dues plus
any payments or contributions, and the | 28 |
| Board shall transmit such withholdings
to the specified | 29 |
| labor organization within 10 working days from the time
of | 30 |
| the withholding. Whenever the Board establishes a search | 31 |
| committee to
fill the position of president of Southern | 32 |
| Illinois University, there shall
be minority |
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| representation, including women, on that search committee;
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| 3. To prescribe the course of study to be followed, and | 3 |
| textbooks
and apparatus to be used at Southern Illinois | 4 |
| University;
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| 4. To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty, | 6 |
| diplomas to such
persons as have satisfactorily completed | 7 |
| the required studies of
Southern Illinois University, and | 8 |
| confer such professional and literary
degrees as are | 9 |
| usually conferred by other institutions of like character
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| for similar or equivalent courses of study, or such as the | 11 |
| Board may
deem appropriate;
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| 5. To examine into the conditions, management, and | 13 |
| administration of
Southern Illinois University, to provide | 14 |
| the requisite buildings,
apparatus, equipment and | 15 |
| auxiliary enterprises, and to fix and collect
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| matriculation fees; tuition fees; fees for student | 17 |
| activities; fees for
student facilities such as student | 18 |
| union buildings or field houses or
stadium or other | 19 |
| recreational facilities; student welfare fees;
laboratory | 20 |
| fees and similar fees for supplies and material;
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| 6. To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust | 22 |
| property, and
gifts now or hereafter belonging or | 23 |
| pertaining to Southern Illinois
University;
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| 7. To accept endowments of professorships or | 25 |
| departments in the
University from any person who may | 26 |
| proffer them and, at regular
meetings, to prescribe rules | 27 |
| and regulations in relation to endowments
and declare on | 28 |
| what general principles they may be accepted;
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| 8. To enter into contracts with the Federal government | 30 |
| for providing
courses of instruction and other services at | 31 |
| Southern Illinois
University for persons serving in or with | 32 |
| the military or naval forces
of the United States, and to | 33 |
| provide such courses of instruction and
other services;
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| 9. To provide for the receipt and expenditures of | 35 |
| Federal funds,
paid to the Southern Illinois University by | 36 |
| the Federal government for
instruction and other services |
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| for persons serving in or with the
military or naval forces | 2 |
| of the United States and to provide for audits
of such | 3 |
| funds;
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| 10. To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service | 5 |
| law, persons
to be members of the Southern Illinois | 6 |
| University Police Department.
Members of the Police | 7 |
| Department shall be conservators of the peace and
as such | 8 |
| have all powers possessed by policemen in cities, and | 9 |
| sheriffs,
including the power to make arrests on view or | 10 |
| warrants of violations of
state statutes, university rules | 11 |
| and regulations and city or county
ordinances, except that | 12 |
| they may exercise such powers only within
counties wherein | 13 |
| the university and any of its branches or properties
are | 14 |
| located when such is required for the protection of | 15 |
| university
properties and interests, and its students and | 16 |
| personnel, and otherwise,
within such counties, when | 17 |
| requested by appropriate State
or local law enforcement | 18 |
| officials. However, such officers shall have no
power to | 19 |
| serve and execute civil processes.
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| The Board must authorize to each member of the Southern | 21 |
| Illinois University
Police
Department
and to any other | 22 |
| employee of Southern Illinois University exercising the | 23 |
| powers
of a peace officer
a distinct badge
that, on its | 24 |
| face, (i) clearly states that the badge is authorized by | 25 |
| Southern
Illinois
University and
(ii) contains a unique | 26 |
| identifying number. No other badge shall be authorized
by | 27 |
| Southern Illinois University.
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| 11. To administer a plan or plans established by the | 29 |
| clinical faculty
of the School of Medicine for the billing, | 30 |
| collection and disbursement of
charges made by individual | 31 |
| faculty members for professional services performed
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| them in the course of or in support of their academic | 33 |
| responsibilities,
provided that such plan has been first | 34 |
| approved by Board action. All such
collections shall be | 35 |
| deposited into a special fund or funds administered
by the | 36 |
| Board from which disbursements may be made according to the |
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| provisions
of said plan. The reasonable costs incurred, by | 2 |
| the University, administering
the billing, collection and | 3 |
| disbursement provisions of a plan shall have
first priority | 4 |
| for payment before distribution or disbursement for any | 5 |
| other
purpose. Charges established pursuant to this plan | 6 |
| must be itemized in any
billing and any amounts collected | 7 |
| which are not used to off-set the cost
of operating or | 8 |
| maintaining the activity which generated the funds | 9 |
| collected,
must be accounted for separately. This | 10 |
| accounting must clearly show the
use and application made | 11 |
| of the funds and the Board shall report such
accountings | 12 |
| for the previous fiscal year to the Legislative Audit
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| Commission annually by December 31 of each fiscal year.
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| The Board of Trustees may own, operate, or govern, by | 15 |
| or through the School
of Medicine, a managed care community | 16 |
| network established under subsection
(b)
of Section 5-11 of | 17 |
| the Illinois Public Aid Code.
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| 12. The Board of Trustees may, directly or in | 19 |
| cooperation with other
institutions of higher education, | 20 |
| acquire by purchase or lease or
otherwise, and construct, | 21 |
| enlarge, improve, equip, complete, operate,
control and | 22 |
| manage medical research and high technology parks, | 23 |
| together
with the necessary lands, buildings, facilities, | 24 |
| equipment, and personal
property therefor, to encourage | 25 |
| and facilitate (a) the location and
development of business | 26 |
| and industry in the State of Illinois, and (b) the
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| increased application and development of technology and | 28 |
| (c) the improvement
and development of the State's economy. | 29 |
| The Board of Trustees may lease to
nonprofit corporations | 30 |
| all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities,
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| equipment or other property included in a medical research | 32 |
| and high
technology park upon such terms and conditions as | 33 |
| the Board of Trustees may
deem advisable and enter into any | 34 |
| contract or agreement with such nonprofit
corporations as | 35 |
| may be necessary or suitable for the construction,
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| financing, operation and maintenance and management of any |
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| such park; and
may lease to any person, firm, partnership | 2 |
| or corporation, either public or
private, any part or all | 3 |
| of the land, building, facilities, equipment or
other | 4 |
| property of such park for such purposes and upon such
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| rentals, terms and conditions as the Board of Trustees may | 6 |
| deem advisable; and
may finance all or part of the cost of | 7 |
| any such park, including the purchase,
lease, | 8 |
| construction, reconstruction, improvement, remodeling, | 9 |
| addition to,
and extension and maintenance of all or part | 10 |
| of such high technology park,
and all equipment and | 11 |
| furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government
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| grants, contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the | 13 |
| operation of
such high technology park, rentals and similar | 14 |
| receipts; and may make its
other facilities and services | 15 |
| available to tenants or other occupants of
any such park at | 16 |
| rates which are reasonable and appropriate.
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| The powers of the Board as herein designated are subject to | 18 |
| the Board
of Higher Education Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01; 92-370, eff. 8-15-01.)
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