SB1997eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB1997 Engrossed LRB095 18752 NHT 44871 b

AN ACT concerning education.

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

Section 5. The Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act is amended by changing the title of the Act and Sections 0.01 and 1 and by adding Section 0.05 as follows:

(105 ILCS 25/Act title)

An Act relating to membership representation on certain interscholastic athletic and academic organizations.

(105 ILCS 25/0.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 1820)

Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Interscholastic Athletic and Academic Organization Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(105 ILCS 25/0.05 new)

Sec. 0.05. Regulation of news media.

(a) For the purposes of this Section, "news media" means personnel of a newspaper or other periodical issued at regular intervals (whether in print or electronic format), a news service (whether in print or electronic format), a radio station, a television station, a television network, a community antenna-television service, or a person or corporation engaged in making news reels or other motion picture news for public showing.

(b) No public elementary or public secondary school in this State nor any association or other entity that sponsors, regulates, or in any manner provides for interscholastic athletic, academic, or other form of competition among schools and students within this State may infringe upon or attempt to regulate in any manner the dissemination of news or the use of visual images by the news media of interscholastic athletic, academic, or other form of competition among schools and students within this State.

(105 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 122, par. 1821)

Sec. 1. Payment of dues or fees. No membership or other dues or fees shall be paid by the governing body of any public elementary or public secondary school in this State to any association or other entity which has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletic, academic, or other athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State if such association or other entity adopts or maintains in effect any bylaw, rule, regulation or policy which designates or requires a member to designate its school principal or any other school administrator as the representative of the member who alone is entitled to cast the vote of the member on any matter coming before such association or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general membership; provided, that the provisions of this Section shall not apply if the bylaws, rules, regulations or policies of such association or entity, as adopted and applied: (i) authorize the governing board of each secondary school which is a member of the association or entity to appoint, as the allotted representative of such secondary school entitled to cast its vote on any matter coming before the association or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general membership, any coach, athletic director, teacher, principal or other school administrator employed at the secondary school which the governing body chooses to appoint as such representative, and (ii) provide that if no representative of a member is so appointed by its governing body, that the school principal of the member shall be its representative authorized to cast its vote unless and until the governing body shall otherwise appoint.

(Source: P.A. 85-656.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.