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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3465
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 3465, AS AMENDED,
3 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
4 following:
5 "Section 5. The Southern Illinois University Management
6 Act is amended by changing Sections 2, 4, and 5 as follows:
7 (110 ILCS 520/2) (from Ch. 144, par. 652)
8 Sec. 2. Members of Board; appointment; student members;
9 selection. The term of each appointed member of the Board who
10 is in office on June 30, 2003 shall terminate at the close of
11 business on that date or when all of the new members to be
12 initially appointed under this amendatory Act of the 93rd
13 General Assembly have been appointed by the Governor,
14 whichever occurs later. The Board shall consist of the
15 following 7 members appointed by the Governor, by and with
16 the advice and consent of the Senate, for terms beginning on
17 July 1, 2003, or as soon as possible thereafter, 3 of whom
18 shall be graduates of Southern Illinois University at
19 Carbondale, Southern Illinois University School of Law, or
20 Southern Illinois University School of Medicine or reside in
21 Johnson, Randolph, Perry, Franklin, Williamson, Jackson,
22 Massac, Hardin, Pope, Saline, Hamilton, White, Gallatin,
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1 Alexander, Pulaski, or Union County, 3 of whom shall be
2 graduates of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville or
3 Southern Illinois School of Dentistry or reside in Madison,
4 St. Clair, Bond, Macoupin, Clinton, Fayette, Montgomery,
5 Washington, or Monroe County, and one of whom shall be a
6 resident of this State, the Superintendent of Public
7 Instruction, or his chief assistant for liaison with higher
8 education when designated to serve in his place, ex-officio,
9 and one voting student member designated by the Governor from
10 each one campus of the University and one nonvoting student
11 member from the campus of the University not represented by
12 the voting student member. The Governor shall designate one
13 of the student members serving on the Board to serve as the
14 voting student member. Each student member shall be chosen
15 by the respective campuses of Southern Illinois University at
16 Carbondale and Edwardsville. The method of choosing these
17 student members shall be by campus-wide student election, and
18 any student designated by the Governor to be a voting student
19 member shall be one of the students chosen by this method.
20 The student members shall serve terms of one year beginning
21 on July 1 of each year, except that the student members
22 initially selected shall serve a term beginning on the date
23 of such selection and expiring on the next succeeding June
24 30. To be eligible for selection as a student member and to
25 be eligible to remain as a voting or nonvoting student member
26 of the Board, a student member must be a resident of this
27 State, must have and maintain a grade point average that is
28 equivalent to at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale, and must be a full
29 time student enrolled at all times during his or her term of
30 office except for that part of the term which follows the
31 completion of the last full regular semester of an academic
32 year and precedes the first full regular semester of the
33 succeeding academic year at the university (sometimes
34 commonly referred to as the summer session or summer school).
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1 If a voting or nonvoting student member serving on the Board
2 fails to continue to meet or maintain the residency, minimum
3 grade point average, or enrollment requirement established by
4 this Section, his or her membership on the Board shall be
5 deemed to have terminated by operation of law. No more than
6 4 of the members appointed by the Governor shall be
7 affiliated with the same political party. Each member
8 appointed by the Governor must be a resident of this State.
9 A failure to meet or maintain this residency requirement
10 constitutes a resignation from and creates a vacancy in the
11 Board. Of the members initially appointed by the Governor on
12 or after July 1, 2003, 2 members shall serve for terms ending
13 June 30, 2005, 2 members shall serve for terms ending June
14 30, 2007, and the remaining members shall serve for terms
15 ending June 30, 2009. Upon the expiration of the terms of
16 members initially appointed by the Governor on or after July
17 1, 2003, their respective successors shall be appointed for
18 terms of 6 years from the third Monday in January of each
19 odd-numbered year and until their respective successors are
20 appointed for like terms. If the Senate is not in session
21 appointments shall be made as in the case of vacancies.
22 (Source: P.A. 91-778, eff. 1-1-01; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00;
23 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
24 (110 ILCS 520/4) (from Ch. 144, par. 654)
25 Sec. 4. Members of the Board shall serve without
26 compensation but shall be entitled to reasonable amounts for
27 expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their
28 duties. Such expenses incurred by any non-voting student
29 member may, at the discretion of the Chairperson Chairman of
30 the Board, be provided for by advance payment to the student
31 such member, who shall account therefor to the Board
32 immediately after each meeting.
33 No member of the Board shall hold or be employed in or
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1 appointed to any office or place under the authority of the
2 Board, nor shall any member of the Board be directly or
3 indirectly interested in any contract made by the Board, nor
4 shall he or she be an employee of the State or federal
5 government. This Section does not prohibit the student
6 members of the Board from maintaining normal and official
7 status as enrolled students or normal student employment at
8 Southern Illinois University.
9 (Source: P.A. 79-932.)
10 (110 ILCS 520/5) (from Ch. 144, par. 655)
11 Sec. 5. Members of the Board shall elect annually by
12 secret ballot from their own number a chairperson chairman
13 who shall preside over meetings of the Board and a secretary.
14 Meetings of the Board shall be held at least once each
15 quarter on a campus of Southern Illinois University. At all
16 regular meetings of the Board, a majority of its voting
17 members shall constitute a quorum. The student members shall
18 have all of the privileges of membership, including the right
19 to make and second motions and to attend executive sessions.,
20 other than the right to vote, except that the student member
21 designated by the Governor as the voting student member shall
22 have the right to vote on all Board matters except those
23 involving faculty tenure, faculty promotion or any issue on
24 which the student member has a direct conflict of interest.
25 A student member who is not entitled to vote on a measure at
26 a meeting of the Board or any of its committees shall not be
27 considered a member for the purpose of determining whether a
28 quorum is present at any meeting of the Board or any of its
29 committees the time that measure is voted upon. No action of
30 the Board shall be invalidated by reason of any vacancies on
31 the Board, or by reason of any failure to select a student
32 member.
33 Special meetings of the Board may be called by the
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1 chairperson chairman of the Board or by any 3 members of the
2 Board.
3 At each regular and special meeting that is open to the
4 public, members of the public and employees of the University
5 shall be afforded time, subject to reasonable constraints, to
6 make comments to or ask questions of the Board.
7 (Source: P.A. 91-715, eff. 1-1-01; 91-778, eff. 1-1-01;
8 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
9 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on
10 July 1, 2003.".