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Public Act 098-0778
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| HB4284 Enrolled | LRB098 17403 NHT 52502 b |
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The University of Illinois Trustees Act is |
amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
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(110 ILCS 310/1) (from Ch. 144, par. 41)
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Sec. 1.
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois |
shall consist
of the Governor and at least 12 trustees. Nine |
trustees shall be
appointed by the Governor, by and with the |
advice and consent of
the Senate. The other trustees shall be |
students, of whom one student shall
be selected from each |
University campus.
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Each student trustee shall serve a term of one year, |
beginning on July 1 or
on the date of his or her selection, |
whichever is later, and expiring on the
next succeeding June |
30.
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Each trustee shall have all of the privileges of |
membership, except that only
one student trustee shall have the |
right to cast a legally binding vote. The
Governor shall |
designate which one of the student trustees shall possess, for
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his or her entire term, the right to cast a legally binding |
vote. Each student
trustee who does not possess the right to |
cast a legally binding vote shall
have the right to cast an |
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advisory vote and the right to make and second
motions and to |
attend executive sessions.
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Each trustee shall be governed by the same conflict of |
interest standards.
Pursuant to those standards, it shall not |
be a conflict of interest for a
student trustee to vote on |
matters pertaining to students generally, such as
tuition and |
fees. However, it shall be a conflict of interest for a student
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trustee to vote on
faculty member
tenure or promotion.
Student |
trustees shall be chosen by campus-wide
student election, and |
the
student trustee designated by the Governor to
possess a |
legally binding vote shall be
one of the students selected by |
this method. A student trustee who does not
possess a legally |
binding vote on a
measure at a meeting of the
Board or any of |
its committees shall not be considered a trustee
for the |
purpose
of determining whether a quorum is present at the time |
that measure is voted
upon. To be eligible for selection as a
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student trustee
and
to be eligible to remain as a voting or |
nonvoting student trustee,
a student trustee must be a resident |
of this State,
must have and maintain a
grade point average |
that is equivalent to at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale, and must
be a |
full time student enrolled at all times during his or her term |
of office
except
for that part of the term which follows
the |
completion of the last full regular semester of an academic |
year and
precedes the first full regular semester of the |
succeeding academic year at the
University (sometimes commonly |
referred to as the summer
session or summer
school). If a |
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voting or nonvoting student trustee
fails to
continue to meet |
or maintain the residency, minimum grade point average, or
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enrollment requirement established by this Section, his
or her |
membership on the Board shall be deemed to have terminated by |
operation
of law. The University may not use residency for |
tuition purposes as a factor in making the determination that a |
student is or is not a resident of this State. The following |
factors shall positively demonstrate residency in this State |
for the purposes of the residency requirement for student |
trustees and candidates for student trustee:
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(1) evidence of the student's Illinois domicile for at |
least the previous 6 months; |
(2) evidence of the student's current, valid Illinois |
driver's license; and |
(3) evidence of the student's valid Illinois voter |
registration. |
A positive demonstration of residency in this State for student |
trustees and candidates for student trustees under this Section |
does not apply to residency requirements for tuition purposes. |
If a voting student trustee resigns or otherwise ceases to |
serve on the
Board, the Governor shall, within 30 days, |
designate one of the remaining
student trustees to possess the |
right to cast a legally binding vote
for the remainder of his |
or her term. If a nonvoting student trustee resigns
or
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otherwise ceases to serve on the Board, the chief executive of |
the
student government from that campus shall, within 30 days, |
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select
a new nonvoting student trustee to serve for the |
remainder of the term.
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No more than 5 of the 9 appointed trustees
shall be |
affiliated
with the same political party.
Each trustee |
appointed by the Governor must be a resident of this State. A
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failure to meet
or maintain this residency requirement |
constitutes a resignation from and
creates a
vacancy in the |
Board.
The term of office of each appointed trustee
shall be 6 |
years from the third Monday in January of each odd numbered |
year.
The regular terms of office of the
appointed trustees |
shall be staggered so that 3 terms expire in each
odd-numbered |
year.
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Vacancies for appointed trustees shall be filled for the |
unexpired term
in the same manner as
original appointments. If |
a vacancy in membership occurs at a time when the
Senate is not |
in session, the Governor shall make temporary appointments |
until
the next meeting of the Senate, when he shall appoint |
persons to fill such
memberships for the remainder of their |
respective terms. If the Senate is not
in session when |
appointments for a full term are made, appointments shall be
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made as in the case of vacancies.
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No action of the board shall be invalidated by reason of |
any vacancies on
the board, or by reason of any failure to |
select student trustees.
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(Source: P.A. 91-778, eff. 1-1-01; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00;
92-16, |
eff. 6-28-01.)
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