Public Act 93-0628
HB0920 Enrolled LRB093 05476 NHT 05567 b
AN ACT relating to higher education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Northeastern Illinois University Law is
amended by changing Section 25-15 as follows:
(110 ILCS 680/25-15)
Sec. 25-15. Membership; terms; vacancies. The Board
shall consist of 9 voting members who are residents of this
State and are appointed by the Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, and one voting member who
is a student at Northeastern Illinois University. The
student member shall be elected by a campus-wide election of
all students of the University. The student member shall
serve a term of one year beginning on July 1 of each year,
except that the student member initially selected under this
amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly shall serve a
term beginning on the date of his or her selection and
expiring on the next succeeding June 30. A student member
may serve only for one term. To be eligible to remain as a
student member of the Board, the student member must be a
resident of this State, must have and maintain a grade point
average that is equivalent to at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale,
and must be a full time undergraduate student enrolled at all
times during his or her term of office except for that part
of the term which follows the completion of the last full
regular semester of an academic year and precedes the first
full regular semester of the succeeding academic year at the
university (sometimes commonly referred to as the summer
session or summer school). If a student member serving on
the Board fails to continue to meet or maintain the
residency, minimum grade point average, or enrollment
requirement established by this Section, his or her
membership on the Board shall be deemed to have terminated by
operation of law. If any member of the Board appointed by
the Governor fails to continue to meet or maintain the
residency requirement established by this Section, he or she
shall resign membership on the Board within 30 days
thereafter and, failing submission of this resignation, his
or her membership on the Board shall be deemed to have
terminated by operation of law. Of the members first
appointed by the Governor, 4 shall be appointed for terms to
expire on the third Monday in January, 1999 and until their
successors are appointed and qualified, and 3 shall be
appointed for terms to expire on the third Monday in January,
2001 and until their successors are appointed and qualified.
The 2 additional members appointed by the Governor, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, under this
amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, shall not be
from the same political party and shall be appointed for
terms to expire on the third Monday in January, 2003 and
until their successors are appointed and qualified. Any
vacancy in membership existing on January 1, 1999 shall be
filled by appointment by the Governor, with the advice and
consent of the Senate, for a term to expire on the third
Monday in January, 2003. If the Senate is not in session on
the effective date of this Article, or if a vacancy in an
appointive membership occurs at a time when the Senate is not
in session, the Governor shall make temporary appointments to
fill the vacancy. Members with these temporary appointments
shall be deemed qualified to serve upon appointment and shall
continue to serve until the next meeting of the Senate when
the Governor shall appoint persons to fill such memberships,
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the
remainder of their respective terms. No more than 5 of the
members appointed by the Governor shall be affiliated with
the same political party. Each member appointed by the
Governor must be a resident of this State. A failure to meet
or maintain this residency requirement constitutes a
resignation from and creates a vacancy in the Board. Upon
the expiration of the terms of members appointed by the
Governor for other than temporary appointments, their
respective successors shall be appointed, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, for terms of 6 years from
the third Monday in January of each odd-numbered year. Any
members appointed to the Board shall continue to serve in
such capacity until their successors are appointed and
qualified.
(Source: P.A. 91-565, eff. 8-14-99; 91-778, eff. 1-1-01;
91-798, eff. 7-9-00; 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.