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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 Public Community College Act is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 2-1 as follows:
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| 6 | (110 ILCS 805/2-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 102-1)
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| 7 | Sec. 2-1. There is created the Illinois Community College | ||||||
| 8 | Board
hereinafter referred to as the "State Board". The State | ||||||
| 9 | Board shall
consist of 12 members as follows: a nonvoting | ||||||
| 10 | student member selected by
the recognized advisory committee of | ||||||
| 11 | students of the Illinois Community
College Board, this student | ||||||
| 12 | to serve for a term of one year beginning on
July 1 of each | ||||||
| 13 | year, except that the student member initially selected
shall | ||||||
| 14 | serve a term beginning on the date of such selection and | ||||||
| 15 | expiring on
the next succeeding June 30, and except that any | ||||||
| 16 | student member or former
student member may be selected by the | ||||||
| 17 | recognized advisory committee of
students of the State Board to | ||||||
| 18 | serve a second term as the nonvoting student
member of the | ||||||
| 19 | State Board; and 11 members, one of whom shall be a senior
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| 20 | citizen age 60 or over, to be appointed by the Governor by and | ||||||
| 21 | with the
advice and consent of the Senate. Beginning on July 1, | ||||||
| 22 | 2005, one of the 11 members appointed by the Governor, by and | ||||||
| 23 | with the advice and consent of the Senate, must be a faculty | ||||||
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| 1 | member at an Illinois public community college. Also beginning | ||||||
| 2 | on July 1, 2005, one of the 11 members appointed by the | ||||||
| 3 | Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, | ||||||
| 4 | must be a member of the board of trustees of a public community | ||||||
| 5 | college district. After the effective date of this amendatory | ||||||
| 6 | Act of the 97th General Assembly, one of the 11 members to be | ||||||
| 7 | appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent | ||||||
| 8 | of the Senate, must be the president of a public community | ||||||
| 9 | college. The membership requirements set forth in this Section | ||||||
| 10 | apply only to the State Board and shall have no effect on the | ||||||
| 11 | membership of the board of trustees of a community college | ||||||
| 12 | district. The members first appointed under this
amendatory Act | ||||||
| 13 | of 1984 shall serve for a term of 6 years. After the
expiration | ||||||
| 14 | of the terms of the office of the members first appointed to | ||||||
| 15 | the
State Board, their respective successors shall hold office | ||||||
| 16 | for a term of 6
years and until their successors are qualified | ||||||
| 17 | and seated. In the event of
vacancies on the State Board in | ||||||
| 18 | offices appointed by the Governor occurring
during a recess of | ||||||
| 19 | the Senate, the Governor shall have the power to make
temporary | ||||||
| 20 | appointments until the next meeting of the Senate, when the
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| 21 | vacancy shall be filled by nomination to be confirmed by the | ||||||
| 22 | Senate.
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| 23 | (Source: P.A. 94-157, eff. 7-8-05.)
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| 24 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 25 | becoming law.
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