HB6909 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6909

Introduced 02/09/04, by Richard P. Myers

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

110 ILCS 690/35-45

Amends the Western Illinois University Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the powers and duties of the Board of Trustees.

A BILL FOR

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 Western Illinois University Law is amended by changing Section 35-45 as follows:

(110 ILCS 690/35-45)

Sec. 35-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall have the power and it shall be its duty:

(1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not inconsistent with law, for the government and management of Western Illinois University and its branches;

(2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a President of Western Illinois University, and all necessary deans, professors, associate professors, assistant professors, instructors, other educational and administrative assistants, and all other necessary employees, and to prescribe their duties and contract with them upon matters relating to tenure, salaries and retirement benefits in accordance with the State Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board establishes a search committee to fill the position of President of Western Illinois University, there shall be minority representation, including women, on that search committee. The Board shall, upon the written request of an employee of Western Illinois University, withhold from the compensation of that employee any dues, payments or contributions payable by such employee to any labor organization as defined in the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Under such arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the annual dues plus any payments or contributions, and the Board shall transmit such withholdings to the specified labor organization within 10 working days from the time of the withholding;

(3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed, and textbooks and apparatus to be used at Western Illinois University;

(4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty, diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the required studies of Western Illinois University, and confer such professional and literary degrees as are usually conferred by other institutions of like character for similar or equivalent courses of study, or such as the Board may deem appropriate;

(5) To examine into the conditions, management, and administration of Western Illinois University, to provide the requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees; tuition fees; fees for student activities; fees for student facilities such as student union buildings or field houses or stadia or other recreational facilities; student welfare fees; laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials. The expense of the building, improving, repairing and supplying fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances and apparatus for conducting Western Illinois University, the reimbursed expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries or compensation of the President, assistants, agents and other employees of Western Illinois University, shall be a charge upon the State Treasury. All other expenses shall be chargeable against students, and the Board shall regulate the charges accordingly;

(6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining to Western Illinois University;

(7) To accept endowments of professorships or departments in Western Illinois University from any person who may proffer them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules and regulations in relation to endowments and declare on what general principles they may be accepted;

(8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government for providing courses of instruction and other services at Western Illinois University for persons serving in or with the military or naval forces of the United States, and to provide such courses of instruction and other services;

(9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer Center to obtain services related to electronic data processing;

(10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of Federal funds paid to Western Illinois University by the Federal government for instruction and other services for persons serving in or with the military or naval forces of the United States, and to provide for audits of such funds;

(11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service law, persons to be members of the Western Illinois University Police Department. Members of the Police Department shall be conservators of the peace and as such have all powers possessed by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the power to make arrests on view or warrants of violations of State statutes, University rules and regulations and city or county ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers only within counties wherein Western Illinois University and any of its branches or properties are located when such is required for the protection of University properties and interests, and its students and personnel, and otherwise, within such counties, when requested by appropriate State or local law enforcement officials. However, such officers shall have no power to serve and execute civil processes.

The Board must authorize to each member of the Western Illinois University Police Department and to any other employee of Western Illinois University exercising the powers of a peace officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly states that the badge is authorized by Western Illinois University and (ii) contains a unique identifying number. No other badge shall be authorized by Western Illinois University;

(12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip, complete, operate, control and manage research and high technology parks, together with the necessary lands, buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and development of business and industry in the State of Illinois, and (ii) the increased application and development of technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment or other property included in a research and high technology park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the construction, financing, operation and maintenance and management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm, partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals, terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement, remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants, contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation of such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts; and may make its other facilities and services available to tenants or other occupants of any such park at rates which are reasonable and appropriate.

(Source: P.A. 91-883, eff. 1-1-01.)