Full Text of HB0722 102nd General Assembly
HB0722ham001 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Terra Costa Howard Filed: 4/14/2021
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 722
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 722 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 3-7 as follows:
| 6 | | (110 ILCS 805/3-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-7)
| 7 | | Sec. 3-7. (a) The election of the members of the board of | 8 | | trustees
shall be nonpartisan and shall be held at the time and | 9 | | in the manner provided
in the general election law.
| 10 | | (b) Unless otherwise provided in this Act, members shall | 11 | | be elected to
serve 6
year terms. The term of members elected | 12 | | in 1985 and thereafter shall be from
the date the member is | 13 | | officially determined to be elected to the board by
a canvass | 14 | | conducted pursuant to the Election Code, to the date that the
| 15 | | winner of the seat is officially determined by the canvass | 16 | | conducted
pursuant to the Election Code the next time the seat |
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| 1 | | on the board is to be
filled by election.
| 2 | | (c) Each member must on the date of his election be a | 3 | | citizen of the
United
States, of the age of 18 years or over, | 4 | | and a resident of the State and
the territory which on the date | 5 | | of the election is included in the
community college district | 6 | | for at least one year immediately preceding
his election.
In | 7 | | Community College District No. 526,
each member elected at the | 8 | | consolidated election in 2005 or thereafter must
also be a | 9 | | resident of the trustee
district he or she represents for at | 10 | | least one year immediately preceding
his or her election, | 11 | | except that in the first consolidated election for each
| 12 | | trustee district following reapportionment, a candidate for | 13 | | the board
may be elected from any trustee district that | 14 | | contains a part of the
trustee district in which he or she | 15 | | resided at the time of the
reapportionment and may be | 16 | | reelected if a resident of the new trustee district
he
or she | 17 | | represents for one year prior to reelection.
In the event a | 18 | | person who is a member of a common school
board is elected or | 19 | | appointed to a board of trustees of a community college
| 20 | | district, that person shall be permitted to serve the | 21 | | remainder of his or
her term of office as a member of the | 22 | | common school board. Upon the
expiration of the common school | 23 | | board term, that person shall not be
eligible for election or | 24 | | appointment to a common school board during the
term of office | 25 | | with the community college district board of trustees.
| 26 | | (d) Whenever a vacancy occurs, the remaining members shall |
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| 1 | | fill the
vacancy, and the person so appointed shall serve | 2 | | until a successor is
elected to serve the remainder of the | 3 | | unexpired term at the next regular election for board members | 4 | | and is certified in
accordance with Sections 22-17 and 22-18 | 5 | | of the Election Code. The secretary of the board must publish | 6 | | the vacancy through at least one public notice for a minimum of | 7 | | 15 days before the remaining board members meet to fill the
| 8 | | vacancy, at which time the board must accept applications for | 9 | | the position. In addition, notice of the vacancy must be given | 10 | | by publication in a newspaper published in the community | 11 | | college district at least 15 days before the remaining board | 12 | | members meet to fill the
vacancy. If there is no newspaper | 13 | | published in the district, notice of the vacancy may be given | 14 | | by posting notices in 5 of the most public places in the | 15 | | district. Notice of the vacancy must comply with the Notice By | 16 | | Publication Act and the Newspaper Legal Notice Act. If the
| 17 | | remaining members fail to fill the vacancy so to act within 60 | 18 | | days after the vacancy occurs,
the chairman of the State Board | 19 | | shall fill that vacancy, and the person so
appointed shall | 20 | | serve until a successor is elected to serve the remainder of | 21 | | the unexpired term at the next regular
election for board | 22 | | members and is certified in accordance with Sections
22-17 and | 23 | | 22-18 of the Election Code. The person appointed to fill the
| 24 | | vacancy shall have the same residential qualifications as his | 25 | | predecessor
in office was required to have. In either | 26 | | instance, if the vacancy occurs
with less than 4 months |
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| 1 | | remaining before the next scheduled consolidated
election, and | 2 | | the term of office of the board member vacating the position
is | 3 | | not scheduled to expire at that election, then the term of the | 4 | | person so
appointed shall extend through that election and | 5 | | until the succeeding
consolidated election. If the term of | 6 | | office of the board
member vacating the position is scheduled | 7 | | to expire at the upcoming
consolidated election, the appointed | 8 | | member shall serve
only until a successor is elected and | 9 | | qualified at that election.
| 10 | | (e) Members of the board shall serve without compensation | 11 | | but shall be
reimbursed for their reasonable expenses incurred | 12 | | in connection with
their service as members. Compensation, for | 13 | | purposes of this Section, means
any salary or other benefits | 14 | | not expressly authorized by this Act to be
provided or paid to, | 15 | | for or on behalf of members of the board. The board
of each | 16 | | community college district may adopt a policy providing for | 17 | | the
issuance of bank credit cards, for use by any board member | 18 | | who requests the
same in writing and agrees to use the card | 19 | | only for the reasonable expenses
which he or she incurs in | 20 | | connection with his or her service as a board
member. Expenses | 21 | | charged to such credit cards shall be accounted for
separately | 22 | | and shall be submitted to the chief financial officer of the
| 23 | | district for review prior to being reported to the board at its | 24 | | next
regular meeting.
| 25 | | (f) The ballot for the election of
members of the board for | 26 | | a community college district shall indicate the
length of term |
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| 1 | | for each office to be filled. In the election of a board
for | 2 | | any community college district, the ballot shall not contain | 3 | | any
political party designation.
| 4 | | (Source: P.A. 100-273, eff. 8-22-17; 100-884, eff. 1-1-19 .)
| 5 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 6 | | becoming law.".
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