101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4045

 

Introduced 1/13/2020, by Rep. Joyce Mason

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/6-19  from Ch. 122, par. 6-19

    Amends the Regional Board of School Trustees Article of the School Code. Provides that a vacancy on the regional board of school trustees shall be filled from the same county (rather than territory) by the remaining board members until the next election and that removal of the member filling the vacancy from the county shall constitute a vacancy. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
56-19 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/6-19)  (from Ch. 122, par. 6-19)
7    Sec. 6-19. Vacancy on regional board. Notwithstanding
8Subject to the residency provisions in Section 6-2 of this
9Code, any vacancy on the regional board of school trustees
10shall be filled from the same county territory by the remaining
11members until the next regular election for members of the
12regional board of school trustees, when the vacancy shall be
13filled for the unexpired time and shall then be subject to the
14residency provisions in Section 6-2 of this Code. Removal of a
15member from the township from which such member was elected
16into a township which has its quota of members on the board
17shall constitute a vacancy. Removal of a member filling a
18vacancy until the next election from the county from which he
19or she was selected shall constitute a vacancy.
20(Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 7-29-13.)
 
21    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
22becoming law.