SB2157sam001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Bill Cunningham

Filed: 9/9/2015

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2157

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2157 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended by adding Section 3-8.5 as follows:

(110 ILCS 805/3-8.5 new)

Sec. 3-8.5. Community college trustee's leadership training.

(a) Every voting member of a board elected or appointed for an elected trustee for a term beginning after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly shall complete a minimum of 4 hours of professional development leadership training covering topics in community college and labor law, opening meetings law, freedom of information law, ethics, sexual violence on campus, financial oversight and accountability, audits, and fiduciary responsibilities of a community college trustee during the first, third, and fifth year of his or her term. The community college district shall maintain on its Internet website, if any, the names of all elected voting trustees of the board who have successfully completed the training.

(b) The training under this Section may be provided by an association established under this Code for the purpose of training community college district board trustees or by other qualified providers approved by the State Board, in consultation with an association so established.

(c) The board member shall certify completion of the training required under this Section to the secretary of the board. If the certification indicates that a board member has not completed the training, the secretary shall send a notice to the chairperson of the board and the president or acting chief executive officer of the community college of that fact, and the board shall suspend the member from continued service, at which point, the member has 45 days to complete all training deemed incomplete as provided by the certification. Failure of the board member to complete the necessary training within this probationary period constitutes a resignation from and creates a vacancy in the board, which vacancy shall be filled as provided under subsection (d) of Section 3-7 of this Act.

(d) This Section applies to all community college districts with elected board trustees serving pursuant to this Article who have been elected after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly or appointed to fill a vacancy of at least one year's duration of an elected trustee after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly.".