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90_HB3716

      105 ILCS 423/5
          Amends the Occupational Skill Standards  Act  to  provide
      that  one  of  the members of the Standards and Credentialing
      Council that is appointed by the Governor must  be  from  the
      hospitality industry.  Effective immediately.
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 1        AN  ACT  to amend the Occupational Skill Standards Act by
 2    changing Section 5.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.   The  Occupational  Skill  Standards  Act is
 6    amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
 7        (105 ILCS 423/5)
 8        Sec.    5.  Administering    agency;    Standards     and
 9    Credentialing Council.
10        (a)  Federal    legislation    for   vocational-technical
11    education,  the  Carl  D.  Perkins  Vocational  and   Applied
12    Technology  Act,  requires  each  State board receiving funds
13    under this Act to develop a  system  of  core  standards  and
14    measures  of  performance for vocational programs.  The State
15    Board of Education, as the sole State agency  for  this  Act,
16    shall  develop  such a system after consultation, advice, and
17    input  from  the  State  Committee  of  Practitioners   whose
18    composition is prescribed by federal law.
19        (b)  A  9  member  Standards  and  Credentialing Council,
20    composed of representatives of business, industry, and labor,
21    shall be created to  advise  the  State  Board  of  Education
22    relative  to  the  development of standards and credentialing
23    systems.  Five members of the council shall be  appointed  by
24    the  Governor  and  the other 4 members shall be appointed by
25    the State Superintendent, all to serve at the pleasure of the
26    appointing authority.  One of the members  appointed  by  the
27    Governor  must be from the hospitality industry.  Any vacancy
28    in the office of a Council member appointed by  the  Governor
29    shall  be filled through appointment by the Governor, and any
30    vacancy in the office of a Council member  appointed  by  the
31    State  Superintendent  of  Education  shall be filled through
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 1    appointment by the State Superintendent  of  Education.   Any
 2    person appointed to fill a vacancy on the Council shall serve
 3    as  a member of the Council at the pleasure of the appointing
 4    authority.   Members  of  the  Council  shall  serve  without
 5    compensation but  shall  be  entitled  to  reimbursement  for
 6    reasonable  expenses  necessarily incurred in the performance
 7    of their duties.  The members of the Council shall  select  a
 8    chairperson  from  among  their number to serve for a term of
 9    one year.  If  any  vacancy  occurs  in  the  office  of  the
10    chairperson,  the  members  of the Council shall select a new
11    chairperson from among their number to serve for  a  term  of
12    one  year.   The State Superintendent of Education shall call
13    the first meeting of the Council, and thereafter the  members
14    of  the  Council  shall  prescribe the time and place for the
15    regular meetings of the  Council  and  the  manner  in  which
16    special meetings of the Council may be called.  A majority of
17    the  members of the Council holding office shall constitute a
18    quorum for the transaction of business, and  the  affirmative
19    vote  of  a  majority  of  those  voting on any matter at any
20    meeting at which a quorum is  present  shall  constitute  the
21    action  of  the  Council.   The primary responsibility of the
22    Council  shall  be  the  identification  of  occupations  for
23    development of standards and the verification  of  nationally
24    developed  standards.   This  Act  shall  not  supersede  the
25    provisions  of  any existing collective bargaining agreements
26    or violate  provisions  of  the  Illinois  Educational  Labor
27    Relations Act.
28    (Source: P.A. 89-397, eff. 8-20-95.)
29        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
30    becoming law.

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