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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 17-138 as follows:
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| 6 | | (40 ILCS 5/17-138) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 17-138)
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| 7 | | Sec. 17-138. Board membership. At the first meeting of the |
| 8 | | Board of
Education in November of each year, the Board of |
| 9 | | Education
shall appoint one of its members to serve, while a |
| 10 | | member of the Board of
Education, on the Board of Trustees for |
| 11 | | a term of 2 years.
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| 12 | | During the first week of November or as soon as possible |
| 13 | | thereafter, but not later than the third week of November, |
| 14 | | there
shall be elected 2 members of the Board from the teachers |
| 15 | | other
than administrators, who shall hold office for terms of |
| 16 | | 3 years, provided the trustee retains his or her
status as a |
| 17 | | teacher other than an administrator, and other
members to fill |
| 18 | | any unexpired terms. The
election shall be by secret ballot |
| 19 | | conducted in person or by secure electronic ballot, and shall |
| 20 | | be held in such manner as the
Board by bylaws or rules shall |
| 21 | | provide. Only teachers who are
not administrators shall be |
| 22 | | eligible to vote in the election.
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| 23 | | During the first week of November of 1995 and every third |
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| 1 | | year thereafter,
one contributor who is an administrator shall |
| 2 | | be elected a member of the Board. Beginning in November of |
| 3 | | 2022, the election under this paragraph shall take place |
| 4 | | during the first week of November or as soon as possible |
| 5 | | thereafter, but not later than the third week of November. |
| 6 | | This trustee shall hold office for a term of 3 years, provided |
| 7 | | the trustee retains
his or her status as an administrator. The |
| 8 | | election shall be by mail ballot or by secure electronic |
| 9 | | ballot, and
only contributors who are administrators shall be |
| 10 | | eligible to vote. The election
shall be held in the manner |
| 11 | | provided by the Board by rule or
bylaw.
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| 12 | | During the first week of November or as soon as possible |
| 13 | | thereafter, but not later than the third week of November, of |
| 14 | | each odd-numbered year there shall
be elected 3 members of the |
| 15 | | Board from the pensioners,
who shall hold office for a term of |
| 16 | | 2 years while retaining their status
as pensioners. The |
| 17 | | election shall be by mail ballot or secure electronic ballot |
| 18 | | to all service and
disability pensioners, and shall be held in |
| 19 | | such manner as the Board by bylaws or rules shall provide.
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| 20 | | All trustees, while members of the Board of Education or |
| 21 | | while administrators, teachers other than administrators, or |
| 22 | | pensioners, as the
case may be, shall hold their offices
until |
| 23 | | their successors shall have been appointed or elected and |
| 24 | | qualified by
subscribing to the constitutional oath of office |
| 25 | | at the immediately succeeding
regular meeting of the Board.
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| 26 | | (Source: P.A. 98-449, eff. 8-16-13.)
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