Public Act 102-0872
 
SB3957 EnrolledLRB102 24266 RPS 33497 b


  
    AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended  by 
changing Section 17-138 as follows:
 



    (40 ILCS 5/17-138)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 17-138)



    Sec. 17-138. Board membership. At the first meeting of the 
Board of
Education in November of each year, the Board of 
Education
shall appoint one of its members to serve, while a 
member of the Board of
Education, on the Board of Trustees for 
a term of 2 years.

    During the first week of November or as soon as possible 
thereafter, but not later than the third week of November, 
there
shall be elected 2 members of the Board from the teachers 
other
than administrators, who shall hold office for terms of 
3 years, provided the trustee retains his or her
 status as a 
teacher other than an administrator, and other
members to fill 
any unexpired terms.  The
election shall be by secret ballot 
conducted in person or by secure electronic ballot, and shall 
be held in such manner as the
Board by bylaws or rules shall 
provide.  Only teachers who are
not administrators shall be 
eligible to vote in the election.

    During the first week of November of 1995 and every third 
year thereafter,
one contributor who is an administrator shall 
be elected a member of the Board. Beginning in November of 
2022, the election under this paragraph shall take place 
during the first week of November or as soon as possible 
thereafter, but not later than the third week of November.  
This trustee shall hold office for a term of 3 years, provided 
the trustee retains
his or her status as an administrator.  The 
election shall be by mail ballot or by secure electronic 
ballot, and
only contributors who are administrators shall be 
eligible to vote.  The election
shall be held in the manner 
provided by the Board by rule or
bylaw.

    During the first week of November or as soon as possible 
thereafter, but not later than the third week of November, of 
each odd-numbered year there shall
be elected 3 members of the 
Board from the pensioners,
who shall hold office for a term of 
2 years while retaining their status
as pensioners.  The 
election shall be by mail ballot or secure electronic ballot 
to all service and
disability pensioners, and shall be held in 
such manner as the Board by bylaws or rules shall provide.

    All trustees, while members of the Board of Education or 
while administrators, teachers other than administrators, or 
pensioners, as the
case may be, shall hold their offices
until 
their successors shall have been appointed or elected and 
qualified by
subscribing to the constitutional oath of office 
at the immediately succeeding
regular meeting of the Board.

(Source: P.A. 98-449, eff. 8-16-13.)

  
 

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