HB0308ham001 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Katie Stuart

Filed: 5/14/2024

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 308

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 308 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:

(105 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 122, par. 1821)

Sec. 1. Membership; governance.

(a) No membership or other dues or fees shall be paid by the governing body of any public elementary or public secondary school in this State to any association or other entity which has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State if such association or other entity adopts or maintains in effect any bylaw, rule, regulation or policy which designates or requires a member to designate its school principal or any other school administrator as the representative of the member who alone is entitled to cast the vote of the member on any matter coming before such association or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general membership; provided, that the provisions of this Section shall not apply if the bylaws, rules, regulations or policies of such association or entity, as adopted and applied: (i) authorize the governing board of each secondary school which is a member of the association or entity to appoint, as the allotted representative of such secondary school entitled to cast its vote on any matter coming before the association or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general membership, any coach, athletic director, teacher, principal or other school administrator employed at the secondary school which the governing body chooses to appoint as such representative, and (ii) provide that if no representative of a member is so appointed by its governing body, that the school principal of the member shall be its representative authorized to cast its vote unless and until the governing body shall otherwise appoint.

(b) An association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics, or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State shall establish an executive board of the association or other entity that shall be filled by public school superintendents who are currently employed by a public school district with a high school. The members of the executive board shall be elected on a regionally representative basis using maps developed by the Illinois Association of School Administrators, Illinois Association of School Boards, and the Illinois Principals Association. Members of the executive board shall be initially elected as follows:

(1) one-third of seats shall be elected to a one-year term;

(2) one-third of seats shall be elected to a 2-year term; and

(3) one-third of seats shall be elected to a 3-year term.

After the initial elections, each member shall be elected to a 3-year terms. The first election shall occur before December 1, 2024. The terms of the executive board shall begin on January 1, 2025.

(Source: P.A. 85-656.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".