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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 441
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 441, AS AMENDED,
3 immediately below the end of Section 5, by inserting the
4 following:
5 "Section 7. The Governors State University Law is
6 amended by changing Section 15-15 as follows:
7 (110 ILCS 670/15-15)
8 Sec. 15-15. Membership; terms; vacancies. The Board
9 shall consist of 7 voting members appointed by the Governor
10 by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and, until
11 July 1, 2001, one voting member who is a student at Governors
12 State University. The student member serving on the Board on
13 the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 shall be a
14 voting student member for the remainder of his or her term on
15 the Board. Beginning on July 1, 2001, and thereafter, the
16 student member of the Board shall be a nonvoting member. The
17 method of selecting the student member shall continue to be
18 determined by a campus-wide student referendum. The student
19 member shall serve a term of one year beginning on July 1 of
20 each year, except that the student member initially selected
21 shall serve a term beginning on the date of his or her
22 selection and expiring on the next succeeding June 30. To be
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1 eligible for selection as a student member and to be eligible
2 to remain as a student member of the Board, the student
3 member must be a resident of this State, must have and
4 maintain a grade point average that is equivalent to at least
5 2.5 on a 4.0 scale, and must be a full time student enrolled
6 at all times during his or her term of office except for that
7 part of the term which follows the completion of the last
8 full regular semester of an academic year and precedes the
9 first full regular semester of the succeeding academic year
10 at the university (sometimes commonly referred to as the
11 spring/summer semester). If a student member serving on the
12 Board fails to continue to meet or maintain the residency,
13 minimum grade point average, or enrollment requirement
14 established by this Section, his or her membership on the
15 Board shall be deemed to have terminated by operation of law.
16 Of the members first appointed by the Governor, 4 shall be
17 appointed for terms to expire on the third Monday in January,
18 1999, and 3 shall be appointed for terms to expire on the
19 third Monday in January, 2001. If the Senate is not in
20 session on the effective date of this Article, or if a
21 vacancy in an appointive membership occurs at a time when the
22 Senate is not in session, the Governor shall make temporary
23 appointments until the next meeting of the Senate when he
24 shall nominate persons to fill such memberships for the
25 remainder of their respective terms. No more than 4 of the
26 members appointed by the Governor shall be affiliated with
27 the same political party. Upon the expiration of the terms of
28 members appointed by the Governor, their respective
29 successors shall be appointed for terms of 6 years from the
30 third Monday in January of each odd-numbered year. Any
31 members appointed to the Board shall continue to serve in
32 such capacity until their successors are appointed and
33 qualified.
34 (Source: P.A. 89-4, eff. 1-1-96; 90-630, eff. 7-24-98;
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1 90-814, eff. 2-4-99.)".