101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4593

 

Introduced 2/5/2020, by Rep. Katie Stuart - Blaine Wilhour and Darren Bailey

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
110 ILCS 805/2-1  from Ch. 122, par. 102-1

    Amends the Public Community College Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Illinois Community College Board.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended by
5changing Section 2-1 as follows:
 
6    (110 ILCS 805/2-1)  (from Ch. 122, par. 102-1)
7    Sec. 2-1. There is created the the Illinois Community
8College Board hereinafter referred to as the "State Board". The
9State Board shall consist of 12 members as follows: a nonvoting
10student member selected by the recognized advisory committee of
11students of the Illinois Community College Board, this student
12to serve for a term of one year beginning on July 1 of each
13year, except that the student member initially selected shall
14serve a term beginning on the date of such selection and
15expiring on the next succeeding June 30, and except that any
16student member or former student member may be selected by the
17recognized advisory committee of students of the State Board to
18serve a second term as the nonvoting student member of the
19State Board; and 11 members, one of whom shall be a senior
20citizen age 60 or over, to be appointed by the Governor by and
21with the advice and consent of the Senate. Beginning on July 1,
222005, one of the 11 members appointed by the Governor, by and
23with the advice and consent of the Senate, must be a faculty

 

 

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1member at an Illinois public community college. Also beginning
2on July 1, 2005, one of the 11 members appointed by the
3Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
4must be a member of the board of trustees of a public community
5college district. After the effective date of this amendatory
6Act of the 97th General Assembly, one of the 11 members to be
7appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent
8of the Senate, must be the president of a public community
9college, the Chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago (Community
10College District No. 508), or the Chief Executive Officer of
11Illinois Eastern Community Colleges (Community College
12District No. 529). The membership requirements set forth in
13this Section apply only to the State Board and shall have no
14effect on the membership of the board of trustees of a
15community college district. The members first appointed under
16this amendatory Act of 1984 shall serve for a term of 6 years.
17After the expiration of the terms of the office of the members
18first appointed to the State Board, their respective successors
19shall hold office for a term of 6 years and until their
20successors are qualified and seated. In the event of vacancies
21on the State Board in offices appointed by the Governor
22occurring during a recess of the Senate, the Governor shall
23have the power to make temporary appointments until the next
24meeting of the Senate, when the vacancy shall be filled by
25nomination to be confirmed by the Senate.
26(Source: P.A. 97-1106, eff. 8-27-12.)