Full Text of SB1997 95th General Assembly
SB1997eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act | 5 |
| is amended by changing the title of the Act and Sections 0.01 | 6 |
| and 1 and by adding Section 0.05 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 25/Act title)
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| An Act relating to membership representation on certain | 9 |
| interscholastic
athletic and academic organizations.
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| (105 ILCS 25/0.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 1820)
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| Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
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| Interscholastic Athletic and Academic Organization Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
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| (105 ILCS 25/0.05 new) | 15 |
| Sec. 0.05. Regulation of news media. | 16 |
| (a) For the purposes of this Section, "news media" means | 17 |
| personnel of a newspaper or other periodical issued at regular | 18 |
| intervals (whether in print or electronic format), a news | 19 |
| service (whether in print or electronic format), a radio | 20 |
| station, a television station, a television network, a | 21 |
| community antenna-television service, or a person or |
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| corporation engaged in making news reels or other motion | 2 |
| picture news for public showing. | 3 |
| (b) No public elementary or public secondary school in this | 4 |
| State nor any association or other entity that sponsors, | 5 |
| regulates, or in any manner provides for interscholastic | 6 |
| athletic, academic, or other form of competition among schools | 7 |
| and students within this State may infringe upon or attempt to | 8 |
| regulate in any manner the dissemination of news or the use of | 9 |
| visual images by the news media of interscholastic athletic, | 10 |
| academic, or other form of competition among schools and | 11 |
| students within this State.
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| (105 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 122, par. 1821)
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| Sec. 1. Payment of dues or fees. No membership or other | 14 |
| dues or fees shall be paid by the
governing body of any public | 15 |
| elementary or public secondary school in this
State to any | 16 |
| association or other entity which has as one of its purposes
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| promoting, sponsoring, regulating or in any manner providing | 18 |
| for
interscholastic athletic, academic, or other athletics or | 19 |
| any form of athletic competition among schools
and students | 20 |
| within this State if such association or other entity adopts
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| maintains in effect any bylaw, rule, regulation or policy which
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| designates or requires a member to designate its school | 23 |
| principal or any
other school administrator as the | 24 |
| representative of the member who alone is
entitled to cast the | 25 |
| vote of the member on any matter coming before such
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| or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general
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| membership; provided, that the provisions of this Section shall | 3 |
| not apply
if the bylaws, rules, regulations or policies of such | 4 |
| association or
entity, as adopted and applied: (i) authorize | 5 |
| the governing board of each
secondary school which is a member | 6 |
| of the association or entity to appoint,
as the allotted | 7 |
| representative of such secondary school entitled to cast its
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| vote on any matter coming before the association or entity | 9 |
| which is to be
determined by a vote of its general membership, | 10 |
| any coach, athletic
director, teacher, principal or other | 11 |
| school administrator employed at the
secondary school which the | 12 |
| governing body chooses to appoint as such
representative, and | 13 |
| (ii) provide that if no representative of a member is
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| appointed by its governing body, that the school principal of | 15 |
| the member
shall be its representative authorized to cast its | 16 |
| vote unless and until
the governing body shall otherwise | 17 |
| appoint.
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| (Source: P.A. 85-656.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 20 |
| becoming law.
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