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1    AN ACT concerning education.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Board of Higher Education Act is amended  by 
5adding Section 13 as follows:
 
6    (110 ILCS 205/13 new)
7    Sec. 13. Leadership training for university board members.
8    (a) The Board shall require every voting member of the 
9governing board of a public university appointed for a term 
10beginning after January 1, 2016 to complete a minimum of 4 
11hours of professional development leadership training covering 
12topics that shall include, but are not limited to,  public 
13university and labor law, contract law, ethics, sexual violence 
14on campus, financial oversight and accountability, audits, and 
15fiduciary responsibilities of a member of a governing board 
16within 2 years after beginning service and within every 2 years 
17of service thereafter.
18    (b) A public university shall maintain on its Internet 
19website the names of all voting members of the governing board 
20who have successfully completed the training.
21    (c) Beginning after the effective date of this amendatory 
22Act of the 99th General Assembly, by July 31 of each year, the 
23chairperson of each governing board shall certify to the Board 
 
 
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1the number of hours of training that each member received 
2during the preceding fiscal year.
3    (d) If the certification indicates that a board member has 
4not completed the training required under this Section, the 
5Board shall send a notice to the Governor, the President of the 
6Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the 
7House of Representatives, and the Minority Leader of the House 
8of Representatives of that fact, and the governing board shall 
9suspend the board member from continued service, at which 
10point, the board member has 45 days to complete all training 
11deemed incomplete as provided by the certification. Failure of 
12the board member to complete the necessary training within this 
13probationary period constitutes a resignation from and creates 
14a vacancy in the governing board, to be filled as provided by 
15law.
16    (e) The training under this Section may be provided by the 
17Board or by other qualified providers approved by the Board.