95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB2690

 

Introduced 2/15/2008, by Sen. Emil Jones, Jr.

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
110 ILCS 805/2-1   from Ch. 122, par. 102-1

    Amends the Public Community College Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Illinois Community College Board.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning education.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended by
5 changing Section 2-1 as follows:
 
6     (110 ILCS 805/2-1)  (from Ch. 122, par. 102-1)
7     Sec. 2-1. There is created the the Illinois Community
8 College Board hereinafter referred to as the "State Board". The
9 State 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
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. The membership requirements set forth in this
6 Section apply only to the State Board and shall have no effect
7 on the membership of the board of trustees of a community
8 college district. The members first appointed under this
9 amendatory Act of 1984 shall serve for a term of 6 years. After
10 the expiration of the terms of the office of the members first
11 appointed to the State Board, their respective successors shall
12 hold office for a term of 6 years and until their successors
13 are qualified and seated. In the event of vacancies on the
14 State Board in offices appointed by the Governor occurring
15 during a recess of the Senate, the Governor shall have the
16 power to make temporary appointments until the next meeting of
17 the Senate, when the vacancy shall be filled by nomination to
18 be confirmed by the Senate.
19 (Source: P.A. 94-157, eff. 7-8-05.)