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1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act | ||||||
5 | is amended by changing the title of the Act and Sections 0.01 | ||||||
6 | and 1 and by adding Section 0.05 as follows:
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7 | (105 ILCS 25/Act title)
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8 | An Act relating to membership representation on certain | ||||||
9 | interscholastic
athletic and academic organizations.
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10 | (105 ILCS 25/0.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 1820)
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11 | Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
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12 | Interscholastic Athletic and Academic Organization Act.
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13 | (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
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14 | (105 ILCS 25/0.05 new) | ||||||
15 | Sec. 0.05. Regulation of news media. | ||||||
16 | (a) For the purposes of this Section, "news media" means | ||||||
17 | personnel of a newspaper or other periodical issued at regular | ||||||
18 | intervals (whether in print or electronic format), a news | ||||||
19 | service (whether in print or electronic format), a radio | ||||||
20 | station, a television station, a television network, a | ||||||
21 | community antenna-television service, or a person or |
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1 | corporation engaged in making news reels or other motion | ||||||
2 | picture news for public showing. | ||||||
3 | (b) No public elementary or public secondary school in this | ||||||
4 | State nor any association or other entity that sponsors, | ||||||
5 | regulates, or in any manner provides for interscholastic | ||||||
6 | athletic, academic, or other form of competition among schools | ||||||
7 | and students within this State may infringe upon or attempt to | ||||||
8 | regulate in any manner the dissemination of news or the use of | ||||||
9 | visual images by the news media of interscholastic athletic, | ||||||
10 | academic, or other form of competition among schools and | ||||||
11 | students within this State.
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12 | (105 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 122, par. 1821)
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13 | Sec. 1. Payment of dues or fees. No membership or other | ||||||
14 | dues or fees shall be paid by the
governing body of any public | ||||||
15 | elementary or public secondary school in this
State to any | ||||||
16 | association or other entity which has as one of its purposes
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17 | promoting, sponsoring, regulating or in any manner providing | ||||||
18 | for
interscholastic athletic, academic, or other athletics or | ||||||
19 | any form of athletic competition among schools
and students | ||||||
20 | within this State if such association or other entity adopts
or | ||||||
21 | maintains in effect any bylaw, rule, regulation or policy which
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22 | designates or requires a member to designate its school | ||||||
23 | principal or any
other school administrator as the | ||||||
24 | representative of the member who alone is
entitled to cast the | ||||||
25 | vote of the member on any matter coming before such
association |
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1 | or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general
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2 | membership; provided, that the provisions of this Section shall | ||||||
3 | not apply
if the bylaws, rules, regulations or policies of such | ||||||
4 | association or
entity, as adopted and applied: (i) authorize | ||||||
5 | the governing board of each
secondary school which is a member | ||||||
6 | of the association or entity to appoint,
as the allotted | ||||||
7 | representative of such secondary school entitled to cast its
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8 | vote on any matter coming before the association or entity | ||||||
9 | which is to be
determined by a vote of its general membership, | ||||||
10 | any coach, athletic
director, teacher, principal or other | ||||||
11 | school administrator employed at the
secondary school which the | ||||||
12 | governing body chooses to appoint as such
representative, and | ||||||
13 | (ii) provide that if no representative of a member is
so | ||||||
14 | appointed by its governing body, that the school principal of | ||||||
15 | the member
shall be its representative authorized to cast its | ||||||
16 | vote unless and until
the governing body shall otherwise | ||||||
17 | appoint.
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18 | (Source: P.A. 85-656.)
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19 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
20 | becoming law.
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