Full Text of HB3145 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 3-7 and by adding Section 3-7d as follows:
| 6 | | (110 ILCS 805/3-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-7)
| 7 | | Sec. 3-7. (a) The election of the members of the board of | 8 | | trustees
shall be nonpartisan and shall be held at the time and | 9 | | in the manner provided
in the general election law.
| 10 | | (b) Unless otherwise provided in this Act, members shall | 11 | | be elected to
serve 6
year terms. The term of members elected | 12 | | in 1985 and thereafter shall be from
the date the member is | 13 | | officially determined to be elected to the board by
a canvass | 14 | | conducted pursuant to the Election Code, to the date that the
| 15 | | winner of the seat is officially determined by the canvass | 16 | | conducted
pursuant to the Election Code the next time the seat | 17 | | on the board is to be
filled by election.
| 18 | | (c) Each member must on the date of his election be a | 19 | | citizen of the
United
States, of the age of 18 years or over, | 20 | | and a resident of the State and
the territory which on the date | 21 | | of the election is included in the
community college district | 22 | | for at least one year immediately preceding
his election.
In | 23 | | Community College District No. 526,
each member elected at the |
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| 1 | | consolidated election in 2005 or thereafter must
also be a | 2 | | resident of the trustee
district he or she represents for at | 3 | | least one year immediately preceding
his or her election, | 4 | | except that in the first consolidated election for each
| 5 | | trustee district following reapportionment, a candidate for | 6 | | the board
may be elected from any trustee district that | 7 | | contains a part of the
trustee district in which he or she | 8 | | resided at the time of the
reapportionment and may be | 9 | | reelected if a resident of the new trustee district
he
or she | 10 | | represents for one year prior to reelection. In each community | 11 | | college district with a population of 300,000 or more | 12 | | inhabitants within the district, other than Community College | 13 | | District No. 522, Community College District No. 526, or a | 14 | | community college district subject to Article VII, and in any | 15 | | community college district with a population under 300,000 | 16 | | inhabitants within the district whose board has approved the | 17 | | election of board members by trustee district under Section | 18 | | 3-7d, each member elected at the consolidated election in 2023 | 19 | | or
thereafter must also be a resident of the trustee district | 20 | | he
or she represents for at least one year immediately | 21 | | preceding
his or her election, except that in the first | 22 | | consolidated
election for each trustee district following | 23 | | reapportionment
by the board, a candidate for the board may be
| 24 | | elected from any trustee district that contains a part of the
| 25 | | trustee district in which he or she resided at the time of the
| 26 | | reapportionment and may be reelected if a resident of the new
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| 1 | | trustee district he or she represents for one year prior to
| 2 | | reelection.
| 3 | | In the event a person who is a member of a common school
| 4 | | board is elected or appointed to a board of trustees of a | 5 | | community college
district, that person shall be permitted to | 6 | | serve the remainder of his or
her term of office as a member of | 7 | | the common school board. Upon the
expiration of the common | 8 | | school board term, that person shall not be
eligible for | 9 | | election or appointment to a common school board during the
| 10 | | term of office with the community college district board of | 11 | | trustees.
| 12 | | (d) Whenever a vacancy occurs, the remaining members shall | 13 | | fill the
vacancy, and the person so appointed shall serve | 14 | | until a successor is
elected to serve the remainder of the | 15 | | unexpired term at the next regular election for board members | 16 | | and is certified in
accordance with Sections 22-17 and 22-18 | 17 | | of the Election Code. If the
remaining members fail so to act | 18 | | within 60 days after the vacancy occurs,
the chairman of the | 19 | | State Board shall fill that vacancy, and the person so
| 20 | | appointed shall serve until a successor is elected to serve | 21 | | the remainder of the unexpired term at the next regular
| 22 | | election for board members and is certified in accordance with | 23 | | Sections
22-17 and 22-18 of the Election Code. The person | 24 | | appointed to fill the
vacancy shall have the same residential | 25 | | qualifications as his predecessor
in office was required to | 26 | | have. In either instance, if the vacancy occurs
with less than |
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| 1 | | 4 months remaining before the next scheduled consolidated
| 2 | | election, and the term of office of the board member vacating | 3 | | the position
is not scheduled to expire at that election, then | 4 | | the term of the person so
appointed shall extend through that | 5 | | election and until the succeeding
consolidated election. If | 6 | | the term of office of the board
member vacating the position is | 7 | | scheduled to expire at the upcoming
consolidated election, the | 8 | | appointed member shall serve
only until a successor is elected | 9 | | and qualified at that election.
| 10 | | (e) Members of the board shall serve without compensation | 11 | | but shall be
reimbursed for their reasonable expenses incurred | 12 | | in connection with
their service as members. Compensation, for | 13 | | purposes of this Section, means
any salary or other benefits | 14 | | not expressly authorized by this Act to be
provided or paid to, | 15 | | for or on behalf of members of the board. The board
of each | 16 | | community college district may adopt a policy providing for | 17 | | the
issuance of bank credit cards, for use by any board member | 18 | | who requests the
same in writing and agrees to use the card | 19 | | only for the reasonable expenses
which he or she incurs in | 20 | | connection with his or her service as a board
member. Expenses | 21 | | charged to such credit cards shall be accounted for
separately | 22 | | and shall be submitted to the chief financial officer of the
| 23 | | district for review prior to being reported to the board at its | 24 | | next
regular meeting.
| 25 | | (f) The ballot for the election of
members of the board for | 26 | | a community college district shall indicate the
length of term |
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| 1 | | for each office to be filled. In the election of a board
for | 2 | | any community college district, the ballot shall not contain | 3 | | any
political party designation.
| 4 | | (Source: P.A. 100-273, eff. 8-22-17; 100-884, eff. 1-1-19 .)
| 5 | | (110 ILCS 805/3-7d new) | 6 | | Sec. 3-7d. Trustee districts beginning with the 2023 | 7 | | consolidated election. Beginning with the consolidated | 8 | | election in 2023, the election of board members shall be by | 9 | | trustee district rather than at large in each community | 10 | | college district with a population of 300,000 or more | 11 | | inhabitants within the district, other than in Community | 12 | | College District No. 522, Community College District No. 526, | 13 | | or a community college district subject to Article VII, and in | 14 | | any community college district with a population under 300,000 | 15 | | inhabitants within the district whose board approves the | 16 | | election of board members by trustee district by a | 17 | | three-fifths majority vote as follows: | 18 | | (1) In 2023, before the next consolidated election if | 19 | | that year is an election year, the board shall divide the | 20 | | community college district into 7 trustee districts, each | 21 | | of which shall be compact, contiguous, and substantially | 22 | | equal in population to each other trustee district. The | 23 | | division of the community college district into trustee | 24 | | districts must be completed and formally approved by a | 25 | | majority of the members of the board. |
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| 1 | | (2) For each at-large seat on the board that is to be | 2 | | filled by election in 2023 or thereafter, the seat shall | 3 | | instead be filled by a trustee elected from a trustee | 4 | | district. The board shall determine which trustee district | 5 | | seat is to replace which at-large seat by lot. | 6 | | (3) In the year following each decennial census after | 7 | | 2023, before the next consolidated election if that year | 8 | | is an election year, the board shall reapportion the | 9 | | trustee districts to reflect the results of the census and | 10 | | shall divide the community college district into 7 trustee | 11 | | districts, each of which shall be compact, contiguous, and | 12 | | substantially equal in population to each other trustee | 13 | | district. The reapportionment must be completed and | 14 | | formally approved by a majority of the members of the | 15 | | board. At the same meeting of the board, the board shall, | 16 | | publicly by lot, divide the trustee districts into 2 | 17 | | groups. Four trustees or their successors from one group | 18 | | shall be elected for successive terms of 4 years and 6 | 19 | | years, and 3 trustees or their successors from the second | 20 | | group shall be elected for successive terms of 6 years and | 21 | | 4 years. One member shall be elected from each such | 22 | | trustee district.
| 23 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 24 | | becoming law.
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