Public Act 098-0778
 
HB4284 EnrolledLRB098 17403 NHT 52502 b


  
    AN ACT concerning education.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The University of Illinois Trustees Act is 
amended  by changing Section 1 as follows:
 



    (110 ILCS 310/1)  (from Ch. 144, par. 41)



    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.

    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.

    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

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 
advisory vote and the right to make and second
motions and to 
attend executive sessions.

    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

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

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 
voting or nonvoting student trustee
fails to
continue to meet 
or maintain the residency, minimum grade point average, or

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: 

        (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

otherwise ceases to serve on the Board, the chief executive of 
the
student government from that campus shall, within 30 days, 
select
a new nonvoting student trustee to serve for the 
remainder of the term.

    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

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.

    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

made as in the case of vacancies.

    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.

(Source: P.A. 91-778, eff. 1-1-01; 91-798, eff. 7-9-00;
92-16, 
eff. 6-28-01.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect June 1, 
2014.