Full Text of SB2334 101st General Assembly
SB2334 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2019 and 2020 SB2334 Introduced 1/8/2020, by Sen. Dan McConchie SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 110 ILCS 305/90 | | 110 ILCS 520/75 | | 110 ILCS 660/5-185 | | 110 ILCS 665/10-185 | | 110 ILCS 670/15-185 | | 110 ILCS 675/20-190 | | 110 ILCS 680/25-185 | | 110 ILCS 685/30-195 | | 110 ILCS 690/35-190 | | 110 ILCS 805/3-70 | |
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Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities and community colleges in Illinois. Requires the governing board of each public university and community college district to make available to the public, on the institution's Internet website, the president's employment contract, including all addendums or any other documents that change an initial contract.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The University of Illinois Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 90 as follows: | 6 | | (110 ILCS 305/90) | 7 | | Sec. 90. Employment contract ; president and chancellors | 8 | | limitations . | 9 | | (a) The Board of Trustees shall make available to the | 10 | | public, on the University's Internet website, the University | 11 | | president's employment contract, whether entered into, | 12 | | amended, renewed, or extended before, on, or after the | 13 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General | 14 | | Assembly, including all addendums or any other documents that | 15 | | change an initial contract. | 16 | | (b) This subsection (b) Section
applies to the employment | 17 | | contracts of the president or all chancellors of the University | 18 | | entered into, amended,
renewed, or extended after the effective | 19 | | date of this
amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. This | 20 | | subsection (b) Section does
not apply to collective bargaining | 21 | | agreements. With respect to
employment contracts entered into | 22 | | with the president or all chancellors of the
University: | 23 | | (1) Severance under the contract may not exceed one |
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| 1 | | year salary and applicable benefits. | 2 | | (2) A contract with a determinate start and end date | 3 | | may not exceed 4 years. | 4 | | (3) The contract may not include any automatic rollover | 5 | | clauses. | 6 | | (4) Severance payments or contract buyouts may be | 7 | | placed in an escrow account if there are pending criminal | 8 | | charges against the president or all chancellors of the | 9 | | University
related to their employment. | 10 | | (5) Final action on the formation, renewal, extension,
| 11 | | or termination of the employment contracts of the president | 12 | | or all chancellors of the University must be made
during an | 13 | | open meeting of the Board of Trustees. | 14 | | (6) Public notice, compliant with the provisions of the | 15 | | Open Meetings Act, must be given prior to final
action on | 16 | | the formation, renewal, extension, or
termination of the | 17 | | employment contracts of the president or all chancellors of | 18 | | the University and must include a copy of the Board item or | 19 | | other documentation providing, at a minimum, a description | 20 | | of the proposed principal financial components of the | 21 | | president's or all chancellors' appointments. | 22 | | (7) Any performance-based bonus or incentive-based | 23 | | compensation to the president or all chancellors of the | 24 | | University must be
approved by the Board in an open | 25 | | meeting. The
performance upon which the bonus is based
must | 26 | | be made available to the public no less than 48 hours
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| 1 | | before Board approval of the performance-based bonus or | 2 | | incentive-based compensation. | 3 | | (8) Board minutes, board packets, and annual
| 4 | | performance reviews concerning the president or all | 5 | | chancellors of the University must be made
available to the | 6 | | public on the University's Internet
website.
| 7 | | (Source: P.A. 99-694, eff. 1-1-17 .) | 8 | | Section 10. The Southern Illinois University Management | 9 | | Act is amended by changing Section 75 as follows: | 10 | | (110 ILCS 520/75) | 11 | | Sec. 75. Employment contract ; president and chancellors | 12 | | limitations . | 13 | | (a) The Board shall make available to the public, on the | 14 | | University's Internet website, the University president's | 15 | | employment contract, whether entered into, amended, renewed, | 16 | | or extended before, on, or after the effective date of this | 17 | | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, including all | 18 | | addendums or any other documents that change an initial | 19 | | contract. | 20 | | (b) This subsection (b) Section
applies to the employment | 21 | | contracts of the president or all chancellors of the University | 22 | | entered into, amended,
renewed, or extended after the effective | 23 | | date of this
amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. This | 24 | | subsection (b) Section does
not apply to collective bargaining |
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| 1 | | agreements. With respect to
employment contracts entered into | 2 | | with the president or all chancellors of the
University: | 3 | | (1) Severance under the contract may not exceed one | 4 | | year salary and applicable benefits. | 5 | | (2) A contract with a determinate start and end date | 6 | | may not exceed 4 years. | 7 | | (3) The contract may not include any automatic rollover | 8 | | clauses. | 9 | | (4) Severance payments or contract buyouts may be | 10 | | placed in an escrow account if there are pending criminal | 11 | | charges against the president or all chancellors of the | 12 | | University
related to their employment. | 13 | | (5) Final action on the formation, renewal, extension,
| 14 | | or termination of the employment contracts of the president | 15 | | or all chancellors of the University must be made
during an | 16 | | open meeting of the Board. | 17 | | (6) Public notice, compliant with the provisions of the | 18 | | Open Meetings Act, must be given prior to final
action on | 19 | | the formation, renewal, extension, or
termination of the | 20 | | employment contracts of the president or all chancellors of | 21 | | the University and must include a copy of the Board item or | 22 | | other documentation providing, at a minimum, a description | 23 | | of the proposed principal financial components of the | 24 | | president's or all chancellors' appointments. | 25 | | (7) Any performance-based bonus or incentive-based | 26 | | compensation to the president or all chancellors of the |
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| 1 | | University must be
approved by the Board in an open | 2 | | meeting. The
performance upon which the bonus is based
must | 3 | | be made available to the public no less than 48 hours
| 4 | | before Board approval of the performance-based bonus or | 5 | | incentive-based compensation. | 6 | | (8) Board minutes, board packets, and annual
| 7 | | performance reviews concerning the president or all | 8 | | chancellors of the University must be made
available to the | 9 | | public on the University's Internet
website.
| 10 | | (Source: P.A. 99-694, eff. 1-1-17 .) | 11 | | Section 15. The Chicago State University Law is amended by | 12 | | changing Section 5-185 as follows: | 13 | | (110 ILCS 660/5-185) | 14 | | Sec. 5-185. Employment contract ; president and chancellors | 15 | | limitations . | 16 | | (a) The Board shall make available to the public, on the | 17 | | University's Internet website, the University president's | 18 | | employment contract, whether entered into, amended, renewed, | 19 | | or extended before, on, or after the effective date of this | 20 | | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, including all | 21 | | addendums or any other documents that change an initial | 22 | | contract. | 23 | | (b) This subsection (b) Section
applies to the employment | 24 | | contracts of the president or all chancellors of the University |
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| 1 | | entered into, amended,
renewed, or extended after the effective | 2 | | date of this
amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. This | 3 | | subsection (b) Section does
not apply to collective bargaining | 4 | | agreements. With respect to
employment contracts entered into | 5 | | with the president or all chancellors of the
University: | 6 | | (1) Severance under the contract may not exceed one | 7 | | year salary and applicable benefits. | 8 | | (2) A contract with a determinate start and end date | 9 | | may not exceed 4 years. | 10 | | (3) The contract may not include any automatic rollover | 11 | | clauses. | 12 | | (4) Severance payments or contract buyouts may be | 13 | | placed in an escrow account if there are pending criminal | 14 | | charges against the president or all chancellors of the | 15 | | University
related to their employment. | 16 | | (5) Final action on the formation, renewal, extension,
| 17 | | or termination of the employment contracts of the president | 18 | | or all chancellors of the University must be made
during an | 19 | | open meeting of the Board. | 20 | | (6) Public notice, compliant with the provisions of the | 21 | | Open Meetings Act, must be given prior to final
action on | 22 | | the formation, renewal, extension, or
termination of the | 23 | | employment contracts of the president or all chancellors of | 24 | | the University and must include a copy of the Board item or | 25 | | other documentation providing, at a minimum, a description | 26 | | of the proposed principal financial components of the |
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| 1 | | president's or all chancellors' appointments. | 2 | | (7) Any performance-based bonus or incentive-based | 3 | | compensation to the president or all chancellors of the | 4 | | University must be
approved by the Board in an open | 5 | | meeting. The
performance upon which the bonus is based
must | 6 | | be made available to the public no less than 48 hours
| 7 | | before Board approval of the performance-based bonus or | 8 | | incentive-based compensation. | 9 | | (8) Board minutes, board packets, and annual
| 10 | | performance reviews concerning the president or all | 11 | | chancellors of the University must be made
available to the | 12 | | public on the University's Internet
website.
| 13 | | (Source: P.A. 99-694, eff. 1-1-17 .) | 14 | | Section 20. The Eastern Illinois University Law is amended | 15 | | by changing Section 10-185 as follows: | 16 | | (110 ILCS 665/10-185) | 17 | | Sec. 10-185. Employment contract ; president and | 18 | | chancellors limitations . | 19 | | (a) The Board shall make available to the public, on the | 20 | | University's Internet website, the University president's | 21 | | employment contract, whether entered into, amended, renewed, | 22 | | or extended before, on, or after the effective date of this | 23 | | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, including all | 24 | | addendums or any other documents that change an initial |
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| 1 | | contract. | 2 | | (b) This subsection (b) Section
applies to the employment | 3 | | contracts of the president or all chancellors of the University | 4 | | entered into, amended,
renewed, or extended after the effective | 5 | | date of this
amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. This | 6 | | subsection (b) Section does
not apply to collective bargaining | 7 | | agreements. With respect to
employment contracts entered into | 8 | | with the president or all chancellors of the
University: | 9 | | (1) Severance under the contract may not exceed one | 10 | | year salary and applicable benefits. | 11 | | (2) A contract with a determinate start and end date | 12 | | may not exceed 4 years. | 13 | | (3) The contract may not include any automatic rollover | 14 | | clauses. | 15 | | (4) Severance payments or contract buyouts may be | 16 | | placed in an escrow account if there are pending criminal | 17 | | charges against the president or all chancellors of the | 18 | | University
related to their employment. | 19 | | (5) Final action on the formation, renewal, extension,
| 20 | | or termination of the employment contracts of the president | 21 | | or all chancellors of the University must be made
during an | 22 | | open meeting of the Board. | 23 | | (6) Public notice, compliant with the provisions of the | 24 | | Open Meetings Act, must be given prior to final
action on | 25 | | the formation, renewal, extension, or
termination of the | 26 | | employment contracts of the president or all chancellors of |
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| 1 | | the University and must include a copy of the Board item or | 2 | | other documentation providing, at a minimum, a description | 3 | | of the proposed principal financial components of the | 4 | | president's or all chancellors' appointments. | 5 | | (7) Any performance-based bonus or incentive-based | 6 | | compensation to the president or all chancellors of the | 7 | | University must be
approved by the Board in an open | 8 | | meeting. The
performance upon which the bonus is based
must | 9 | | be made available to the public no less than 48 hours
| 10 | | before Board approval of the performance-based bonus or | 11 | | incentive-based compensation. | 12 | | (8) Board minutes, board packets, and annual
| 13 | | performance reviews concerning the president or all | 14 | | chancellors of the University must be made
available to the | 15 | | public on the University's Internet
website.
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 99-694, eff. 1-1-17 .) | 17 | | Section 25. The Governors State University Law is amended | 18 | | by changing Section 15-185 as follows: | 19 | | (110 ILCS 670/15-185) | 20 | | Sec. 15-185. Employment contract ; president and | 21 | | chancellors limitations . | 22 | | (a) The Board shall make available to the public, on the | 23 | | University's Internet website, the University president's | 24 | | employment contract, whether entered into, amended, renewed, |
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| 1 | | or extended before, on, or after the effective date of this | 2 | | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, including all | 3 | | addendums or any other documents that change an initial | 4 | | contract. | 5 | | (b) This subsection (b) Section
applies to the employment | 6 | | contracts of the president or all chancellors of the University | 7 | | entered into, amended,
renewed, or extended after the effective | 8 | | date of this
amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. This | 9 | | subsection (b) Section does
not apply to collective bargaining | 10 | | agreements. With respect to
employment contracts entered into | 11 | | with the president or all chancellors of the
University: | 12 | | (1) Severance under the contract may not exceed one | 13 | | year salary and applicable benefits. | 14 | | (2) A contract with a determinate start and end date | 15 | | may not exceed 4 years. | 16 | | (3) The contract may not include any automatic rollover | 17 | | clauses. | 18 | | (4) Severance payments or contract buyouts may be | 19 | | placed in an escrow account if there are pending criminal | 20 | | charges against the president or all chancellors of the | 21 | | University
related to their employment. | 22 | | (5) Final action on the formation, renewal, extension,
| 23 | | or termination of the employment contracts of the president | 24 | | or all chancellors of the University must be made
during an | 25 | | open meeting of the Board. | 26 | | (6) Public notice, compliant with the provisions of the |
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| 1 | | Open Meetings Act, must be given prior to final
action on | 2 | | the formation, renewal, extension, or
termination of the | 3 | | employment contracts of the president or all chancellors of | 4 | | the University and must include a copy of the Board item or | 5 | | other documentation providing, at a minimum, a description | 6 | | of the proposed principal financial components of the | 7 | | president's or all chancellors' appointments. | 8 | | (7) Any performance-based bonus or incentive-based | 9 | | compensation to the president or all chancellors of the | 10 | | University must be
approved by the Board in an open | 11 | | meeting. The
performance upon which the bonus is based
must | 12 | | be made available to the public no less than 48 hours
| 13 | | before Board approval of the performance-based bonus or | 14 | | incentive-based compensation. | 15 | | (8) Board minutes, board packets, and annual
| 16 | | performance reviews concerning the president or all | 17 | | chancellors of the University must be made
available to the | 18 | | public on the University's Internet
website.
| 19 | | (Source: P.A. 99-694, eff. 1-1-17 .) | 20 | | Section 30. The Illinois State University Law is amended by | 21 | | changing Section 20-190 as follows: | 22 | | (110 ILCS 675/20-190) | 23 | | Sec. 20-190. Employment contract ; president and | 24 | | chancellors limitations . |
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| 1 | | (a) The Board shall make available to the public, on the | 2 | | University's Internet website, the University president's | 3 | | employment contract, whether entered into, amended, renewed, | 4 | | or extended before, on, or after the effective date of this | 5 | | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, including all | 6 | | addendums or any other documents that change an initial | 7 | | contract. | 8 | | (b) This subsection (b) Section
applies to the employment | 9 | | contracts of the president or all chancellors of the University | 10 | | entered into, amended,
renewed, or extended after the effective | 11 | | date of this
amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. This | 12 | | subsection (b) Section does
not apply to collective bargaining | 13 | | agreements. With respect to
employment contracts entered into | 14 | | with the president or all chancellors of the
University: | 15 | | (1) Severance under the contract may not exceed one | 16 | | year salary and applicable benefits. | 17 | | (2) A contract with a determinate start and end date | 18 | | may not exceed 4 years. | 19 | | (3) The contract may not include any automatic rollover | 20 | | clauses. | 21 | | (4) Severance payments or contract buyouts may be | 22 | | placed in an escrow account if there are pending criminal | 23 | | charges against the president or all chancellors of the | 24 | | University
related to their employment. | 25 | | (5) Final action on the formation, renewal, extension,
| 26 | | or termination of the employment contracts of the president |
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| 1 | | or all chancellors of the University must be made
during an | 2 | | open meeting of the Board. | 3 | | (6) Public notice, compliant with the provisions of the | 4 | | Open Meetings Act, must be given prior to final
action on | 5 | | the formation, renewal, extension, or
termination of the | 6 | | employment contracts of the president or all chancellors of | 7 | | the University and must include a copy of the Board item or | 8 | | other documentation providing, at a minimum, a description | 9 | | of the proposed principal financial components of the | 10 | | president's or all chancellors' appointments. | 11 | | (7) Any performance-based bonus or incentive-based | 12 | | compensation to the president or all chancellors of the | 13 | | University must be
approved by the Board in an open | 14 | | meeting. The
performance upon which the bonus is based
must | 15 | | be made available to the public no less than 48 hours
| 16 | | before Board approval of the performance-based bonus or | 17 | | incentive-based compensation. | 18 | | (8) Board minutes, board packets, and annual
| 19 | | performance reviews concerning the president or all | 20 | | chancellors of the University must be made
available to the | 21 | | public on the University's Internet
website.
| 22 | | (Source: P.A. 99-694, eff. 1-1-17 .) | 23 | | Section 35. The Northeastern Illinois University Law is | 24 | | amended by changing Section 25-185 as follows: |
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| 1 | | (110 ILCS 680/25-185) | 2 | | Sec. 25-185. Employment contract ; president and | 3 | | chancellors limitations . | 4 | | (a) The Board shall make available to the public, on the | 5 | | University's Internet website, the University president's | 6 | | employment contract, whether entered into, amended, renewed, | 7 | | or extended before, on, or after the effective date of this | 8 | | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, including all | 9 | | addendums or any other documents that change an initial | 10 | | contract. | 11 | | (b) This subsection (b) Section
applies to the employment | 12 | | contracts of the president or all chancellors of the University | 13 | | entered into, amended,
renewed, or extended after the effective | 14 | | date of this
amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. This | 15 | | subsection (b) Section does
not apply to collective bargaining | 16 | | agreements. With respect to
employment contracts entered into | 17 | | with the president or all chancellors of the
University: | 18 | | (1) Severance under the contract may not exceed one | 19 | | year salary and applicable benefits. | 20 | | (2) A contract with a determinate start and end date | 21 | | may not exceed 4 years. | 22 | | (3) The contract may not include any automatic rollover | 23 | | clauses. | 24 | | (4) Severance payments or contract buyouts may be | 25 | | placed in an escrow account if there are pending criminal | 26 | | charges against the president or all chancellors of the |
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| 1 | | University
related to their employment. | 2 | | (5) Final action on the formation, renewal, extension,
| 3 | | or termination of the employment contracts of the president | 4 | | or all chancellors of the University must be made
during an | 5 | | open meeting of the Board. | 6 | | (6) Public notice, compliant with the provisions of the | 7 | | Open Meetings Act, must be given prior to final
action on | 8 | | the formation, renewal, extension, or
termination of the | 9 | | employment contracts of the president or all chancellors of | 10 | | the University and must include a copy of the Board item or | 11 | | other documentation providing, at a minimum, a description | 12 | | of the proposed principal financial components of the | 13 | | president's or all chancellors' appointments. | 14 | | (7) Any performance-based bonus or incentive-based | 15 | | compensation to the president or all chancellors of the | 16 | | University must be
approved by the Board in an open | 17 | | meeting. The
performance upon which the bonus is based
must | 18 | | be made available to the public no less than 48 hours
| 19 | | before Board approval of the performance-based bonus or | 20 | | incentive-based compensation. | 21 | | (8) Board minutes, board packets, and annual
| 22 | | performance reviews concerning the president or all | 23 | | chancellors of the University must be made
available to the | 24 | | public on the University's Internet
website.
| 25 | | (Source: P.A. 99-694, eff. 1-1-17 .) |
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| 1 | | Section 40. The Northern Illinois University Law is amended | 2 | | by changing Section 30-195 as follows: | 3 | | (110 ILCS 685/30-195) | 4 | | Sec. 30-195. Employment contract ; president and | 5 | | chancellors limitations . | 6 | | (a) The Board shall make available to the public, on the | 7 | | University's Internet website, the University president's | 8 | | employment contract, whether entered into, amended, renewed, | 9 | | or extended before, on, or after the effective date of this | 10 | | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, including all | 11 | | addendums or any other documents that change an initial | 12 | | contract. | 13 | | (b) This subsection (b) Section
applies to the employment | 14 | | contracts of the president or all chancellors of the University | 15 | | entered into, amended,
renewed, or extended after the effective | 16 | | date of this
amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. This | 17 | | subsection (b) Section does
not apply to collective bargaining | 18 | | agreements. With respect to
employment contracts entered into | 19 | | with the president or all chancellors of the
University: | 20 | | (1) Severance under the contract may not exceed one | 21 | | year salary and applicable benefits. | 22 | | (2) A contract with a determinate start and end date | 23 | | may not exceed 4 years. | 24 | | (3) The contract may not include any automatic rollover | 25 | | clauses. |
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| 1 | | (4) Severance payments or contract buyouts may be | 2 | | placed in an escrow account if there are pending criminal | 3 | | charges against the president or all chancellors of the | 4 | | University
related to their employment. | 5 | | (5) Final action on the formation, renewal, extension,
| 6 | | or termination of the employment contracts of the president | 7 | | or all chancellors of the University must be made
during an | 8 | | open meeting of the Board. | 9 | | (6) Public notice, compliant with the provisions of the | 10 | | Open Meetings Act, must be given prior to final
action on | 11 | | the formation, renewal, extension, or
termination of the | 12 | | employment contracts of the president or all chancellors of | 13 | | the University and must include a copy of the Board item or | 14 | | other documentation providing, at a minimum, a description | 15 | | of the proposed principal financial components of the | 16 | | president's or all chancellors' appointments. | 17 | | (7) Any performance-based bonus or incentive-based | 18 | | compensation to the president or all chancellors of the | 19 | | University must be
approved by the Board in an open | 20 | | meeting. The
performance upon which the bonus is based
must | 21 | | be made available to the public no less than 48 hours
| 22 | | before Board approval of the performance-based bonus or | 23 | | incentive-based compensation. | 24 | | (8) Board minutes, board packets, and annual
| 25 | | performance reviews concerning the president or all | 26 | | chancellors of the University must be made
available to the |
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| 1 | | public on the University's Internet
website.
| 2 | | (Source: P.A. 99-694, eff. 1-1-17 .) | 3 | | Section 45. The Western Illinois University Law is amended | 4 | | by changing Section 35-190 as follows: | 5 | | (110 ILCS 690/35-190) | 6 | | Sec. 35-190. Employment contract ; president and | 7 | | chancellors limitations . | 8 | | (a) The Board shall make available to the public, on the | 9 | | University's Internet website, the University president's | 10 | | employment contract, whether entered into, amended, renewed, | 11 | | or extended before, on, or after the effective date of this | 12 | | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, including all | 13 | | addendums or any other documents that change an initial | 14 | | contract. | 15 | | (b) This subsection (b) Section
applies to the employment | 16 | | contracts of the president or all chancellors of the University | 17 | | entered into, amended,
renewed, or extended after the effective | 18 | | date of this
amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. This | 19 | | subsection (b) Section does
not apply to collective bargaining | 20 | | agreements. With respect to
employment contracts entered into | 21 | | with the president or all chancellors of the
University: | 22 | | (1) Severance under the contract may not exceed one | 23 | | year salary and applicable benefits. | 24 | | (2) A contract with a determinate start and end date |
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| 1 | | may not exceed 4 years. | 2 | | (3) The contract may not include any automatic rollover | 3 | | clauses. | 4 | | (4) Severance payments or contract buyouts may be | 5 | | placed in an escrow account if there are pending criminal | 6 | | charges against the president or all chancellors of the | 7 | | University
related to their employment. | 8 | | (5) Final action on the formation, renewal, extension,
| 9 | | or termination of the employment contracts of the president | 10 | | or all chancellors of the University must be made
during an | 11 | | open meeting of the Board. | 12 | | (6) Public notice, compliant with the provisions of the | 13 | | Open Meetings Act, must be given prior to final
action on | 14 | | the formation, renewal, extension, or
termination of the | 15 | | employment contracts of the president or all chancellors of | 16 | | the University and must include a copy of the Board item or | 17 | | other documentation providing, at a minimum, a description | 18 | | of the proposed principal financial components of the | 19 | | president's or all chancellors' appointments. | 20 | | (7) Any performance-based bonus or incentive-based | 21 | | compensation to the president or all chancellors of the | 22 | | University must be
approved by the Board in an open | 23 | | meeting. The
performance upon which the bonus is based
must | 24 | | be made available to the public no less than 48 hours
| 25 | | before Board approval of the performance-based bonus or | 26 | | incentive-based compensation. |
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| 1 | | (8) Board minutes, board packets, and annual
| 2 | | performance reviews concerning the president or all | 3 | | chancellors of the University must be made
available to the | 4 | | public on the University's Internet
website.
| 5 | | (Source: P.A. 99-694, eff. 1-1-17 .) | 6 | | Section 50. The Public Community College Act is amended by | 7 | | changing Section 3-70 as follows: | 8 | | (110 ILCS 805/3-70) | 9 | | Sec. 3-70. Employment contract transparency. | 10 | | (a) A board shall make available to the public, on the | 11 | | community college district's Internet website, the community | 12 | | college president's employment contract, whether entered into, | 13 | | amended, renewed, or extended before, on, or after the | 14 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General | 15 | | Assembly, including all addendums or any other documents that | 16 | | change an initial contract. | 17 | | (b) This subsection (b) Section
applies to the employment | 18 | | contracts of the president or all chancellors of the community | 19 | | college entered into, amended,
renewed, or extended after the | 20 | | effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 99th General | 21 | | Assembly. This subsection (b) Section does
not apply to | 22 | | collective bargaining agreements. With respect to
employment | 23 | | contracts entered into with the president or all chancellors of | 24 | | the
community college: |
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| 1 | | (1) Severance payments or contract buyouts may be | 2 | | placed in an escrow account if there are pending criminal | 3 | | charges against the president or all chancellors of the | 4 | | community college related to their employment. | 5 | | (2) Final action on the formation, renewal, extension, | 6 | | or termination of the employment contracts of the president | 7 | | or all chancellors of the community college must be made
| 8 | | during an open meeting of the board. | 9 | | (3) Public notice, compliant with the Open Meetings | 10 | | Act, must be given prior to final
action on the formation, | 11 | | renewal, extension, or
termination of the employment | 12 | | contracts of the president or all chancellors of the | 13 | | community college and must include a copy of the board item | 14 | | or other documentation providing, at a minimum, a | 15 | | description of the proposed principal financial components | 16 | | of the president's or any chancellor's appointment. | 17 | | (4) Any performance-based bonus or incentive-based | 18 | | compensation to the president or all chancellors of the | 19 | | community college must be approved by the board in an open | 20 | | meeting. The performance criteria and goals upon which the | 21 | | bonus or incentive-based compensation is based must be made | 22 | | available to the public no less than 48 hours before board | 23 | | approval of the performance-based bonus or incentive-based | 24 | | compensation. | 25 | | (5) Board minutes, board packets, and annual
| 26 | | performance criteria and goals concerning the president or |
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| 1 | | any chancellors must be made
available to the public on the | 2 | | community college district's
Internet website.
| 3 | | (Source: P.A. 99-694, eff. 1-1-17 .)
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