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| | 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB0621 Introduced 01/31/11, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Northern Illinois University Law. Makes a technical change in a
Section concerning membership on the Board of Trustees.
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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, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Northern Illinois University Law is amended |
| 5 | | by changing Section 30-15 as follows:
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| 6 | | (110 ILCS 685/30-15)
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| 7 | | Sec. 30-15. Membership; terms; vacancies. The
The Board |
| 8 | | shall consist of 7
voting members appointed by the Governor, by |
| 9 | | and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, and one voting |
| 10 | | member who is a student at Northern
Illinois 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. To be eligible to remain as a student |
| 17 | | member of the
Board, the student member must be a resident of |
| 18 | | this State, must have and
maintain a grade point average that |
| 19 | | is equivalent to at least 2.5 on a 4.0
scale, and must be a full |
| 20 | | time student enrolled at all times during his or her
term of |
| 21 | | office except for that part of the term which follows
the |
| 22 | | completion of the last full regular semester of an academic |
| 23 | | year and
precedes the first full regular semester of the |
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| 1 | | succeeding academic year at the
university (sometimes commonly |
| 2 | | referred to as the summer session or summer
school). If a |
| 3 | | student member serving on the Board fails to continue to meet |
| 4 | | or
maintain the residency, minimum grade point average, or |
| 5 | | enrollment requirement
established by this Section, his or her |
| 6 | | membership on the Board shall be deemed
to have terminated by |
| 7 | | operation of law. Of the members first appointed by the
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| 8 | | Governor, 4 shall be appointed for terms to expire on the third |
| 9 | | Monday in
January, 1999, and 3 shall be appointed for terms to |
| 10 | | expire on the third Monday
in January, 2001. If the Senate is |
| 11 | | not in session on the effective date of
this Article, or if a |
| 12 | | vacancy in an appointive membership occurs at a time when
the |
| 13 | | Senate is not in session, the Governor shall make temporary |
| 14 | | appointments
until the next meeting of the Senate when he shall |
| 15 | | nominate persons to fill
such memberships for the remainder of |
| 16 | | their respective terms. No more than 4
of the members appointed |
| 17 | | by the Governor shall be affiliated with the same
political |
| 18 | | party. Each member appointed by the Governor must be a resident
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| 19 | | of this State. A failure to meet or maintain this residency |
| 20 | | requirement
constitutes a resignation from and creates a |
| 21 | | vacancy in the Board. Upon the
expiration of the terms of |
| 22 | | members appointed by the Governor, their respective
successors |
| 23 | | shall be appointed for terms of 6 years from the third Monday |
| 24 | | in
January of each odd-numbered year. Any members appointed to |
| 25 | | the Board shall
continue to serve in such capacity until their |
| 26 | | successors are appointed and
qualified. |