Bill Text: IL SB0579 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a prohibition.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0579 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB0579-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a prohibition.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0579 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB0579-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 122, par. 1821)
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7 | Sec. 1.
No membership or other dues or fees shall be paid | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | by the
the
governing body of any public elementary or public | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | secondary school in this
State to any association or other | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | entity which has as one of its purposes
promoting, sponsoring, | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | regulating or in any manner providing for
interscholastic | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools
and | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | students within this State if such association or other entity | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | adopts
or maintains in effect any bylaw, rule, regulation or | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | policy which
designates or requires a member to designate its | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | school principal or any
other school administrator as the | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | representative of the member who alone is
entitled to cast the | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | vote of the member on any matter coming before such
association | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general
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20 | membership; provided, that the provisions of this Section shall | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | not apply
if the bylaws, rules, regulations or policies of such | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | association or
entity, as adopted and applied: (i) authorize | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | the governing board of each
secondary school which is a member |
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1 | of the association or entity to appoint,
as the allotted | ||||||
2 | representative of such secondary school entitled to cast its
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3 | vote on any matter coming before the association or entity | ||||||
4 | which is to be
determined by a vote of its general membership, | ||||||
5 | any coach, athletic
director, teacher, principal or other | ||||||
6 | school administrator employed at the
secondary school which the | ||||||
7 | governing body chooses to appoint as such
representative, and | ||||||
8 | (ii) provide that if no representative of a member is
so | ||||||
9 | appointed by its governing body, that the school principal of | ||||||
10 | the member
shall be its representative authorized to cast its | ||||||
11 | vote unless and until
the governing body shall otherwise | ||||||
12 | appoint. | ||||||
13 | (Source: P.A. 85-656.)
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