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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 748
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 748 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Southern Illinois University Management
5 Act is amended by changing Sections 2, 4, and 5 as follows:
6 (110 ILCS 520/2) (from Ch. 144, par. 652)
7 Sec. 2. Members of Board; appointment; student members;
8 selection. The term of each appointed member of the Board who
9 is in office on June 30, 2003 shall terminate at the close of
10 business on that date or when all of the new members to be
11 initially appointed under this amendatory Act of the 93rd
12 General Assembly have been appointed by the Governor,
13 whichever occurs later. The Board shall consist of the
14 following 7 members appointed by the Governor, by and with
15 the advice and consent of the Senate, for terms beginning on
16 July 1, 2003, or as soon as possible thereafter, 3 of whom
17 shall be graduates of Southern Illinois University at
18 Carbondale, Southern Illinois University School of Law, or
19 Southern Illinois University School of Medicine or reside in
20 Johnson, Randolph, Perry, Franklin, Williamson, Jackson,
21 Massac, Hardin, Pope, Saline, Hamilton, White, Gallatin,
22 Alexander, Pulaski, or Union County, 3 of whom shall be
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1 graduates of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville or
2 Southern Illinois School of Dentistry or reside in Madison,
3 St. Clair, Bond, Macoupin, Clinton, Fayette, Montgomery,
4 Washington, or Monroe County, and one of whom shall be a
5 resident of this State, the Superintendent of Public
6 Instruction, or his chief assistant for liaison with higher
7 education when designated to serve in his place, ex-officio,
8 and one voting student member designated by the Governor from
9 each one campus of the University and one nonvoting student
10 member from the campus of the University not represented by
11 the voting student member. The Governor shall designate one
12 of the student members serving on the Board to serve as the
13 voting student member. Each student member shall be chosen
14 by the respective campuses of Southern Illinois University at
15 Carbondale and Edwardsville. The method of choosing these
16 student members shall be by campus-wide student election, and
17 any student designated by the Governor to be a voting student
18 member shall be one of the students chosen by this method.
19 The student members shall serve terms of one year beginning
20 on July 1 of each year, except that the student members
21 initially selected shall serve a term beginning on the date
22 of such selection and expiring on the next succeeding June
23 30. To be eligible for selection as a student member and to
24 be eligible to remain as a voting or nonvoting student member
25 of the Board, a student member must be a resident of this
26 State, must have and maintain a grade point average that is
27 equivalent to at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale, and must be a full
28 time student enrolled at all times during his or her term of
29 office except for that part of the term which follows the
30 completion of the last full regular semester of an academic
31 year and precedes the first full regular semester of the
32 succeeding academic year at the university (sometimes
33 commonly referred to as the summer session or summer school).
34 If a voting or nonvoting student member serving on the Board
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1 fails to continue to meet or maintain the residency, minimum
2 grade point average, or enrollment requirement established by
3 this Section, his or her membership on the Board shall be
4 deemed to have terminated by operation of law. No more than
5 4 of the members appointed by the Governor shall be
6 affiliated with the same political party. Each member
7 appointed by the Governor must be a resident of this State.
8 A failure to meet or maintain this residency requirement
9 constitutes a resignation from and creates a vacancy in the
10 Board. Of the members initially appointed by the Governor on
11 or after July 1, 2003, 2 members shall serve for terms ending
12 June 30, 2005, 2 members shall serve for terms ending June
13 30, 2007, and the remaining members shall serve for terms
14 ending June 30, 2009. Upon the expiration of the terms of
15 members initially appointed by the Governor on or after July
16 1, 2003, their respective successors shall be appointed for
17 terms of 6 years from the third Monday in January of each
18 odd-numbered year and until their respective successors are
19 appointed for like terms. If the Senate is not in session
20 appointments shall be made as in the case of vacancies.
21 (Source: P.A. 91-778, eff. 1-1-01; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00;
22 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
23 (110 ILCS 520/4) (from Ch. 144, par. 654)
24 Sec. 4. Members of the Board shall serve without
25 compensation but shall be entitled to reasonable amounts for
26 expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their
27 duties. Such expenses incurred by any non-voting student
28 member may, at the discretion of the Chairperson Chairman of
29 the Board, be provided for by advance payment to the student
30 such member, who shall account therefor to the Board
31 immediately after each meeting.
32 No member of the Board shall hold or be employed in or
33 appointed to any office or place under the authority of the
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1 Board, nor shall any member of the Board be directly or
2 indirectly interested in any contract made by the Board, nor
3 shall he or she be an employee of the State or federal
4 government. This Section does not prohibit the student
5 members of the Board from maintaining normal and official
6 status as enrolled students or normal student employment at
7 Southern Illinois University.
8 (Source: P.A. 79-932.)
9 (110 ILCS 520/5) (from Ch. 144, par. 655)
10 Sec. 5. Members of the Board shall elect annually by
11 secret ballot from their own number a chairperson chairman
12 who shall preside over meetings of the Board and a secretary.
13 Meetings of the Board shall be held at least once each
14 quarter on a campus of Southern Illinois University. At all
15 regular meetings of the Board, a majority of its voting
16 members shall constitute a quorum. The student members shall
17 have all of the privileges of membership, including the right
18 to make and second motions and to attend executive sessions.,
19 other than the right to vote, except that the student member
20 designated by the Governor as the voting student member shall
21 have the right to vote on all Board matters except those
22 involving faculty tenure, faculty promotion or any issue on
23 which the student member has a direct conflict of interest.
24 A student member who is not entitled to vote on a measure at
25 a meeting of the Board or any of its committees shall not be
26 considered a member for the purpose of determining whether a
27 quorum is present at any meeting of the Board or any of its
28 committees the time that measure is voted upon. No action of
29 the Board shall be invalidated by reason of any vacancies on
30 the Board, or by reason of any failure to select a student
31 member.
32 Special meetings of the Board may be called by the
33 chairperson chairman of the Board or by any 3 members of the
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1 Board.
2 At each regular and special meeting that is open to the
3 public, members of the public and employees of the University
4 shall be afforded time, subject to reasonable constraints, to
5 make comments to or ask questions of the Board.
6 (Source: P.A. 91-715, eff. 1-1-01; 91-778, eff. 1-1-01;
7 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
8 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on
9 July 1, 2003.".