HB3944 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB3944

Introduced 10/29/2019, by Rep. Monica Bristow

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

110 ILCS 805/3-7.24	from Ch. 122, par. 103-7.24
110 ILCS 805/3-9	from Ch. 122, par. 103-9
110 ILCS 805/3-80 new

Amends the Public Community College Act. Requires the student member of the Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 536 to be a voting (rather than nonvoting) student member. Permits the board of trustees of any other community college district to elect to allow a student member to be a voting student member. Provides that if a board decides to terminate or not renew the employment contract of the president of a community college, then, for one year after the decision was voted upon, no person who was a member of the board at the time of the vote may be selected to serve as president of the community college. Makes related changes. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning education.

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

Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended by changing Sections 3-7.24 and 3-9 and by adding Section 3-80 as follows:

(110 ILCS 805/3-7.24) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-7.24)

Sec. 3-7.24. Student board member.

(a) Each community college board shall have one non-voting member who is a student enrolled in the community college under the jurisdiction of the board. One non-voting student member shall also be selected in multi-campus districts to represent all campuses in those districts. In multi-campus districts, the campus from which the member is selected shall be determined by lot each year, provided that no campus shall twice have selected a non-voting student member until all campuses in the district have once been represented on the district board. The same procedure shall be followed until all campuses have been represented a second time, a third time, and subsequent times. The method of selecting these student members shall be determined by campus-wide student referendum.

(b) A The student member members shall serve a term of one year beginning on April 15 of each year, except that the student member initially selected shall serve a term beginning on the date of selection and expiring on the next succeeding June 30.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a student member shall be a nonvoting student member. Nonvoting The nonvoting student members shall have all of the privileges of membership, including the right to make and second motions and to attend executive sessions, other than the right to vote.

(d) The student member of the Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 536 shall be a voting student member. The board of any other community college district may elect to allow a student member to be a voting student member. A voting student member shall have all of the privileges of membership, including the right to make and second motions and to attend executive sessions and the right to vote on all board matters except those involving faculty tenure, faculty promotion, or any issue on which the student member has a direct conflict of interest. For the purposes of this subsection (d), the student member shall not be deemed to have a direct conflict of interest in and may vote on any item involving the employment or compensation of the president of the community college or the election of officers.

(Source: P.A. 80-730.)

(110 ILCS 805/3-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-9)

Sec. 3-9. A majority of full voting membership of the Board shall constitute a quorum. However, a voting student member who is not entitled to vote on a measure at a meeting of the Board or any of its committees shall not be considered a member for the purpose of determining whether a quorum is present at the time that measure is voted upon. For all meetings of the Board, a quorum of members must be physically present at the location of the meeting. When a vote is taken upon any measure before the Board, a quorum being present, a majority of the members voting on the measure shall determine the outcome thereof. No action of such board shall be invalidated by reason of any vacancies on such board, or by reason of any failure to select any nonvoting student members.

(Source: P.A. 95-117, eff. 8-13-07.)

(110 ILCS 805/3-80 new)

Sec. 3-80. Termination or nonrenewal of employment contract; president. If a board decides to terminate or not renew the employment contract of the president of a community college, then, for one year after the decision was voted upon, no person who was a member of the board at the time of the vote may be selected to serve as president of the community college.

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