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HB1333 Enrolled                                LRB9100134NTsb

 1        AN  ACT to amend the Vocational Education Act by changing
 2    Section 2.1.

 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section  5.   The  Vocational Education Act is amended by
 6    changing Section 2.1 as follows:

 7        (105 ILCS 435/2.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 697.1)
 8        Sec. 2.1.  Gender Sex Equity Advisory Committee.
 9        (a)  The Superintendent of the State Board  of  Education
10    shall appoint a Gender 9 member Sex Equity Advisory Committee
11    of  at  least  9 members to advise and consult with the State
12    Board of Education and the gender  vocational  education  sex
13    equity  coordinator  in all aspects relating to ensuring that
14    all students have equal educational opportunities  to  pursue
15    high   wage,  high  skill  occupations  leading  to  economic
16    self-sufficiency  of  the   coordinator's   job   description
17    pursuant to the Federal Vocational Education Law.
18        (b)  Membership   shall  include  without  limitation  be
19    composed of one regional gender  sex  equity  coordinator,  2
20    State  Board of Education employees who have expertise in the
21    areas  of  sex  equity  and  single  parent   and   homemaker
22    programming  within  the  Department of Adult, Vocational and
23    Technical Education,  the  Department  of  Labor's  Displaced
24    Homemaker Program Manager, and 5 citizen appointees who have,
25    2  with  expertise  in  one  or  more of the following areas:
26    nontraditional training and  placement,  and  one  each  with
27    expertise in the following areas:  service delivery to single
28    parents,   service  delivery  to  displaced  homemakers,  and
29    service delivery  to  female  teens,  business  and  industry
30    experience,  and Education-to-Careers experience.  Membership
31    also may include employees from the  Department  of  Commerce
 
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 1    and  Community Affairs, the Department of Human Services, and
 2    the Illinois Community College Board who  have  expertise  in
 3    one  or  more  of the areas listed in this subsection (b) for
 4    the citizen appointees.  Appointments shall  be  made  taking
 5    into   consideration   expertise   of  services  provided  in
 6    secondary, postsecondary and community based programs.
 7        (c)  Members shall initially be  appointed  to  one  year
 8    terms  commencing  in  January 1, 1990, and thereafter to two
 9    year terms commencing on January 1 of each odd numbered year.
10    Vacancies shall be filled as prescribed in subsection (b) for
11    the remainder of the unexpired term.
12        (d)  Each newly appointed committee shall elect  a  Chair
13    and  Secretary  from  its  members  and  the state vocational
14    education sex equity coordinator shall  serve  as  Secretary.
15    Members  shall  serve  without  compensation,  but  shall  be
16    reimbursed  for expenses incurred in the performance of their
17    duties.  The Committee shall meet at least bi-annually and at
18    other times at the call of the Chair or at the request of the
19    gender sex equity coordinator.
20    (Source: P.A. 88-555, eff. 7-27-94.)

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