Sen. Emil Jones Jr.

Filed: 4/26/2004

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 934

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 934 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Chicago State University Law is amended by
5 changing Section 5-15 as follows:
 
6     (110 ILCS 660/5-15)
7     Sec. 5-15. Membership; terms; vacancies. The Board shall
8 consist of 9 7 voting members appointed by the Governor, by and
9 with the advice and consent of the Senate, and one voting
10 member who is a student at Chicago State University. The
11 student member shall be chosen by a campus-wide student
12 election. The student member shall serve a term of one year
13 beginning on July 1 of each year, except that the student
14 member initially selected shall serve a term beginning on the
15 date of his or her selection and expiring on the next
16 succeeding June 30. A student member may serve only for one
17 term. To be eligible for selection as a student member and to
18 be eligible to remain as a student member of the Board, the
19 student member must be a resident of this State, must have and
20 maintain a grade point average that is equivalent to at least
21 2.5 on a 4.0 scale, and must be a full time student enrolled at
22 all times during his or her term of office except for that part
23 of the term which follows the completion of the last full
24 regular semester of an academic year and precedes the first

 

 

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1 full regular semester of the succeeding academic year at the
2 university (sometimes commonly referred to as the summer
3 session or summer school). If a student member serving on the
4 Board fails to continue to meet or maintain the residency,
5 minimum grade point average, or enrollment requirement
6 established by this Section, his or her membership on the Board
7 shall be deemed to have terminated by operation of law. Of the
8 members first appointed by the Governor, 4 shall be appointed
9 for terms to expire on the third Monday in January, 1999, and 3
10 shall be appointed for terms to expire on the third Monday in
11 January, 2001. The 2 additional members appointed by the
12 Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
13 under this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly shall
14 not be from the same political party and shall be appointed for
15 terms to expire on the third Monday in January, 2009. If the
16 Senate is not in session on the effective date of this Article,
17 or if a vacancy in an appointive membership occurs at a time
18 when the Senate is not in session, the Governor shall make a
19 temporary appointment to fill the vacancy. Members with these
20 temporary appointments shall be deemed qualified to serve upon
21 appointment and shall continue to serve appointments until the
22 next meeting of the Senate when the Governor shall appoint he
23 shall nominate persons to fill such memberships, by and with
24 the advice and consent of the Senate, for the remainder of
25 their respective terms. No more than 5 4 of the members
26 appointed by the Governor shall be affiliated with the same
27 political party. Each member appointed by the Governor must be
28 a resident of this State. If any member of the Board appointed
29 by the Governor fails to continue to meet or maintain this
30 residency requirement, then he or she shall resign membership
31 on the Board within 30 days thereafter and, failing submission
32 of this resignation, his or her membership on the Board shall
33 be deemed to have terminated by operation of law. A failure to
34 meet or maintain this residency requirement constitutes a

 

 

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1 resignation from and creates a vacancy in the Board. Upon the
2 expiration of the terms of members appointed by the Governor
3 for other than temporary appointments, their respective
4 successors shall be appointed, by and within the advice and
5 consent of the Senate, for terms of 6 years from the third
6 Monday in January of each odd-numbered year. Any members
7 appointed to the Board shall continue to serve in such capacity
8 until their successors are appointed and qualified.
9 (Source: P.A. 91-778, eff. 1-1-01; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00; 92-16,
10 eff. 6-28-01.)
 
11     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12 becoming law.".