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 1        AN ACT regarding higher education.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Public Community College Act  is  amended
 5    by changing Section 3-7.24 as follows:

 6        (110 ILCS 805/3-7.24) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-7.24)
 7        Sec.  3-7.24.  (a) Except  as  otherwise provided in this
 8    subsection (a), each community college board shall  have  one
 9    non-voting  member who is a student enrolled in the community
10    college  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  board.  The   One
11    non-voting  student  member  shall  also  be  selected  in  a
12    multi-campus  district districts to represent all campuses in
13    that district those districts. In multi-campus districts, the
14    campus from which the member is selected shall be  determined
15    by  lot  each  year  provided that no campus shall twice have
16    selected a non-voting student member until  all  campuses  in
17    the  district  have  once  been  represented  on the district
18    board.  The  same  procedure  shall  be  followed  until  all
19    campuses have been represented a second time, a  third  time,
20    and  subsequent times. Notwithstanding any other provision of
21    this subsection (a), beginning July 1, 2003, the board  of  a
22    multi-campus  district  may  elect to have one student member
23    selected from each campus in  the  district  instead  of  one
24    student member who represents all campuses in the district.
25        (b)  The  method  of  selecting  a  these  student member
26    members  shall   be   determined   by   campus-wide   student
27    referendum.
28        A  The  student  member members shall serve a term of one
29    year beginning on April 15 of  each  year,  except  that  the
30    student   member   initially  selected  shall  serve  a  term
31    beginning on the date of selection and expiring on  the  next
 
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 1    succeeding June 30.
 2        (c)  The  Nonvoting student members shall have all of the
 3    privileges of membership, including the  right  to  make  and
 4    second  motions  and to attend executive sessions, other than
 5    the right to vote.
 6    (Source: P.A. 80-730.)

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