Public Act 099-0695
 
SB2174 EnrolledLRB099 14193 SXM 38244 b


  
    AN ACT concerning education.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Board of Higher Education Act is amended  by 
adding Section 13 as follows:
 
    (110 ILCS 205/13 new)
    Sec. 13. Leadership training for university board members.
    (a) The Board shall require every voting member of the 
governing board of a public university appointed for a term 
beginning after January 1, 2016 to complete a minimum of 4 
hours of professional development leadership training covering 
topics that shall include, but are not limited to,  public 
university and labor law, contract law, ethics, sexual violence 
on campus, financial oversight and accountability, audits, and 
fiduciary responsibilities of a member of a governing board 
within 2 years after beginning service and within every 2 years 
of service thereafter.
    (b) A public university shall maintain on its Internet 
website the names of all voting members of the governing board 
who have successfully completed the training.
    (c) Beginning after the effective date of this amendatory 
Act of the 99th General Assembly, by July 31 of each year, the 
chairperson of each governing board shall certify to the Board 
the number of hours of training that each member received 
during the preceding fiscal year.
    (d) If the certification indicates that a board member has 
not completed the training required under this Section, the 
Board shall send a notice to the Governor, the President of the 
Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, and the Minority Leader of the House 
of Representatives of that fact, and the governing board shall 
suspend the board member from continued service, at which 
point, the board member has 45 days to complete all training 
deemed incomplete as provided by the certification. Failure of 
the board member to complete the necessary training within this 
probationary period constitutes a resignation from and creates 
a vacancy in the governing board, to be filled as provided by 
law.
    (e) The training under this Section may be provided by the 
Board or by other qualified providers approved by the Board.