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Public Act 91-0304

HB1333 Enrolled                                LRB9100134NTsb

    AN ACT to amend the Vocational Education Act by  changing
Section 2.1.

    Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section 5.  The Vocational Education Act  is  amended  by
changing Section 2.1 as follows:

    (105 ILCS 435/2.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 697.1)
    Sec. 2.1.  Gender Sex Equity Advisory Committee.
    (a)  The  Superintendent  of the State Board of Education
shall appoint a Gender 9 member Sex Equity Advisory Committee
of at least 9 members to advise and consult  with  the  State
Board  of  Education  and the gender vocational education sex
equity coordinator in all aspects relating to  ensuring  that
all  students  have equal educational opportunities to pursue
high  wage,  high  skill  occupations  leading  to   economic
self-sufficiency   of   the   coordinator's  job  description
pursuant to the Federal Vocational Education Law.
    (b)  Membership  shall  include  without  limitation   be
composed  of  one  regional  gender sex equity coordinator, 2
State Board of Education employees who have expertise in  the
areas   of   sex  equity  and  single  parent  and  homemaker
programming within the Department of  Adult,  Vocational  and
Technical  Education,  the  Department  of  Labor's Displaced
Homemaker Program Manager, and 5 citizen appointees who have,
2 with expertise in one  or  more  of  the  following  areas:
nontraditional  training  and  placement,  and  one each with
expertise in the following areas:  service delivery to single
parents,  service  delivery  to  displaced  homemakers,   and
service  delivery  to  female  teens,  business  and industry
experience, and Education-to-Careers experience.   Membership
also  may  include  employees from the Department of Commerce
and Community Affairs, the Department of Human Services,  and
the  Illinois  Community  College Board who have expertise in
one or more of the areas listed in this  subsection  (b)  for
the  citizen  appointees.   Appointments shall be made taking
into  consideration  expertise  of   services   provided   in
secondary, postsecondary and community based programs.
    (c)  Members  shall  initially  be  appointed to one year
terms commencing in January 1, 1990, and  thereafter  to  two
year terms commencing on January 1 of each odd numbered year.
Vacancies shall be filled as prescribed in subsection (b) for
the remainder of the unexpired term.
    (d)  Each  newly  appointed committee shall elect a Chair
and Secretary from  its  members  and  the  state  vocational
education  sex  equity  coordinator shall serve as Secretary.
Members  shall  serve  without  compensation,  but  shall  be
reimbursed for expenses incurred in the performance of  their
duties.  The Committee shall meet at least bi-annually and at
other times at the call of the Chair or at the request of the
gender sex equity coordinator.
(Source: P.A. 88-555, eff. 7-27-94.)

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