Bill Text: IL SB1377 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities and community colleges in Illinois. Provides that the chief of police of a university police department or a community college district police department or department of public safety has the final decision on all law enforcement decisions. Prohibits the president or chancellors of a public university or the president, chancellors, or chief executive officer of a community college district from being involved in law enforcement decisions. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - Referred to Assignments [SB1377 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB1377-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1377 Introduced 1/29/2025, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
110 ILCS 305/7 from Ch. 144, par. 28
110 ILCS 520/8 from Ch. 144, par. 658
110 ILCS 660/5-45
110 ILCS 665/10-45
110 ILCS 670/15-45
110 ILCS 675/20-45
110 ILCS 680/25-45
110 ILCS 685/30-45
110 ILCS 690/35-45
110 ILCS 805/3-42.1 from Ch. 122, par. 103-42.1
Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities and community colleges in Illinois. Provides that the chief of police of a university police department or a community college district police department or department of public safety has the final decision on all law enforcement decisions. Prohibits the president or chancellors of a public university or the president, chancellors, or chief executive officer of a community college district from being involved in law enforcement decisions. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Act is amended by
changing Section 7 as follows:
(110 ILCS 305/7) (from Ch. 144, par. 28)
Sec. 7. Powers of trustees.
(a) The trustees shall have power to provide for the
requisite buildings, apparatus, and conveniences; to fix the
rates for tuition; to appoint such professors and instructors,
and to establish and provide for the management of such model
farms, model art, and other departments and professorships, as
may be required to teach, in the most thorough manner, such
branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the
mechanic arts, and military tactics, without excluding other
scientific and classical studies. The trustees shall, upon the
written request of an employee withhold from the compensation
of that employee any dues, payments or contributions payable
by such employee to any labor organization as defined in the
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Under such
arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular
payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the
annual dues plus any payments or contributions, and the

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trustees shall transmit such withholdings to the specified
labor organization within 10 working days from the time of the
withholding. They may accept the endowments and voluntary
professorships or departments in the University, from any
person or persons or corporations who may offer the same, and,
at any regular meeting of the board, may prescribe rules and
regulations in relation to such endowments and declare on what
general principles they may be admitted: Provided, that such
special voluntary endowments or professorships shall not be
incompatible with the true design and scope of the act of
congress, or of this Act: Provided, that no student shall at
any time be allowed to remain in or about the University in
idleness, or without full mental or industrial occupation: And
provided further, that the trustees, in the exercise of any of
the powers conferred by this Act, shall not create any
liability or indebtedness in excess of the funds in the hands
of the treasurer of the University at the time of creating such
liability or indebtedness, and which may be specially and
properly applied to the payment of the same. Except as
otherwise provided in this Section, any lease to the trustees
of lands, buildings or facilities which will support
scientific research and development in such areas as high
technology, super computing, microelectronics, biotechnology,
robotics, physics and engineering shall be for a term not to
exceed 18 years, and may grant to the trustees the option to
purchase the lands, buildings or facilities. The lease shall

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recite that it is subject to termination and cancellation in
any year for which the General Assembly fails to make an
appropriation to pay the rent payable under the terms of the
lease.
Leases for the purposes described herein exceeding 5 years
shall have the approval of the Illinois Board of Higher
Education.
The Board of Trustees may, directly or in cooperation with
other institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or
lease or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
complete, operate, control and manage medical research and
high technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
buildings, facilities, equipment and personal property
therefor, to encourage and facilitate (a) the location and
development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
and (b) the increased application and development of
technology and (c) the improvement and development of the
State's economy. The Board of Trustees may lease to nonprofit
corporations all or any part of the land, buildings,
facilities, equipment or other property included in a medical
research and high technology park upon such terms and
conditions as the University of Illinois may deem advisable
and enter into any contract or agreement with such nonprofit
corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,

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partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
terms and conditions as the University may deem advisable; and
may finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including
the purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction,
improvement, remodeling, addition to, and extension and
maintenance of all or part of such high technology park, and
all equipment and furnishings, by legislative appropriations,
government grants, contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts
from the operation of such high technology park, rentals and
similar receipts; and may make its other facilities and
services available to tenants or other occupants of any such
park at rates which are reasonable and appropriate.
The Board of Trustees may, directly or in cooperation with
other members and partners of the collaborative research and
academic initiative known as the Chicago Quantum Exchange,
including, without limitation, other institutions of higher
education, hereinafter each individually referred to as a "CQE
partner", finance, design, construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
complete, operate, control, and manage a facility or
facilities for the research and development of quantum
information sciences and technologies, hereinafter referred to
as the "quantum science facilities". Notwithstanding any other
provision of applicable law: (1) the quantum science
facilities may be located on land owned by the Board of

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Trustees or a CQE partner; and (2) costs incurred in
connection with the design, construction, enlargement,
improvement, equipping, and completion of the quantum science
facilities may be paid with funds appropriated to the Capital
Development Board from the Build Illinois Bond Fund for a
grant to the Board of Trustees for the quantum science
facilities, whether the quantum science facilities are located
on land owned by the Board of Trustees or by a CQE partner;
provided, however, that if any quantum science facilities are
located on land owned by a CQE partner, the use of such grant
funds shall be subject to, and contingent upon, the lease by
the Board of Trustees, as lessee, of a portion of such quantum
science facilities for a term equal to at least the useful life
of such quantum science facilities. The leased premises under
any such lease shall bear a reasonable relationship to the
proportional share of the costs paid by such grant funds. Any
such lease shall give the Board of Trustees the right to
terminate the lease before the expiration of its term if the
General Assembly fails to appropriate sufficient funds to pay
rent due under the lease.
The Trustees shall have power (a) to purchase real
property and easements, and (b) to acquire real property and
easements in the manner provided by law for the exercise of the
right of eminent domain, and in the event negotiations for the
acquisition of real property or easements for making any
improvement which the Trustees are authorized to make shall

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have proven unsuccessful and the Trustees shall have by
resolution adopted a schedule or plan of operation for the
execution of the project and therein made a finding that it is
necessary to take such property or easements immediately or at
some specified later date in order to comply with the
schedule, the Trustees may acquire such property or easements
in the same manner provided in Article 20 of the Eminent Domain
Act (quick-take procedure).
The Board of Trustees also shall have power to agree with
the State's Attorney of the county in which any properties of
the Board are located to pay for services rendered by the
various taxing districts for the years 1944 through 1949 and
to pay annually for services rendered thereafter by such
district such sums as may be determined by the Board upon
properties used solely for income producing purposes, title to
which is held by said Board of Trustees, upon properties
leased to members of the staff of the University of Illinois,
title to which is held in trust for said Board of Trustees and
upon properties leased to for-profit entities the title to
which properties is held by the Board of Trustees. A certified
copy of any such agreement made with the State's Attorney
shall be filed with the County Clerk and such sums shall be
distributed to the respective taxing districts by the County
Collector in such proportions that each taxing district will
receive therefrom such proportion as the tax rate of such
taxing district bears to the total tax rate that would be

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levied against such properties if they were not exempt from
taxation under the Property Tax Code.
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois,
subject to the applicable civil service law, may appoint
persons to be members of the University of Illinois Police
Department. Members of the Police Department shall be peace
officers and as such have all powers possessed by policemen in
cities, and sheriffs, including the power to make arrests on
view or warrants of violations of state statutes and city or
county ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers
only in counties wherein the University and any of its
branches or properties are located when such is required for
the protection of university properties and interests, and its
students and personnel, and otherwise, within such counties,
when requested by appropriate state or local law enforcement
officials; provided, however, that such officer shall have no
power to serve and execute civil processes. The chief of
police of the Police Department has the final decision on all
law enforcement decisions. The president and chancellors of
the University are prohibited from being involved in law
enforcement decisions.
The Board of Trustees must authorize to each member of the
University of Illinois Police Department and to any other
employee of the University of Illinois exercising the powers
of a peace officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i)
clearly states that the badge is authorized by the University

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of Illinois and (ii) contains a unique identifying number. No
other badge shall be authorized by the University of Illinois.
Nothing in this paragraph prohibits the Board of Trustees from
issuing shields or other distinctive identification to
employees not exercising the powers of a peace officer if the
Board of Trustees determines that a shield or distinctive
identification is needed by the employee to carry out his or
her responsibilities.
The Board of Trustees may own, operate, or govern, by or
through the College of Medicine at Peoria, a managed care
community network established under subsection (b) of Section
5-11 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
The powers of the trustees as herein designated are
subject to the provisions of "An Act creating a Board of Higher
Education, defining its powers and duties, making an
appropriation therefor, and repealing an Act herein named",
approved August 22, 1961, as amended.
The Board of Trustees shall have the authority to adopt
all administrative rules which may be necessary for the
effective administration, enforcement and regulation of all
matters for which the Board has jurisdiction or
responsibility.
(b) To assist in the provision of buildings and facilities
beneficial to, useful for, or supportive of University
purposes, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
may exercise the following powers with regard to the area

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located on or adjacent to the University of Illinois at
Chicago campus and bounded as follows: on the West by Morgan
Street; on the North by Roosevelt Road; on the East by Union
Street; and on the South by 16th Street, in the City of
Chicago:
(1) Acquire any interests in land, buildings, or
facilities by purchase, including installments payable
over a period allowed by law, by lease over a term of such
duration as the Board of Trustees shall determine, or by
exercise of the power of eminent domain;
(2) Sub-lease or contract to purchase through
installments all or any portion of buildings or facilities
for such duration and on such terms as the Board of
Trustees shall determine, including a term that exceeds 5
years, provided that each such lease or purchase contract
shall be and shall recite that it is subject to
termination and cancellation in any year for which the
General Assembly fails to make an appropriation to pay the
rent or purchase installments payable under the terms of
such lease or purchase contract; and
(3) Sell property without compliance with the State
Property Control Act and retain proceeds in the University
Treasury in a special, separate development fund account
which the Auditor General shall examine to assure
compliance with this Act.
Any buildings or facilities to be developed on the land shall

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be buildings or facilities that, in the determination of the
Board of Trustees, in whole or in part: (i) are for use by the
University; or (ii) otherwise advance the interests of the
University, including, by way of example, residential
facilities for University staff and students and commercial
facilities which provide services needed by the University
community. Revenues from the development fund account may be
withdrawn by the University for the purpose of demolition and
the processes associated with demolition; routine land and
property acquisition; extension of utilities; streetscape
work; landscape work; surface and structure parking;
sidewalks, recreational paths, and street construction; and
lease and lease purchase arrangements and the professional
services associated with the planning and development of the
area. Moneys from the development fund account used for any
other purpose must be deposited into and appropriated from the
General Revenue Fund. Buildings or facilities leased to an
entity or person other than the University shall not be
subject to any limitations applicable to a State supported
college or university under any law. All development on the
land and all use of any buildings or facilities shall be
subject to the control and approval of the Board of Trustees.
(c) The Board of Trustees shall have the power to borrow
money, as necessary, from time to time in anticipation of
receiving tuition, payments from the State of Illinois, or
other revenues or receipts of the University, also known as

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anticipated moneys. The borrowing limit shall be capped at
100% of the total amount of payroll and other expense vouchers
submitted and payable to the University for fiscal year 2010
expenses, but unpaid by the State Comptroller's office. Prior
to borrowing any funds, the University shall request from the
Comptroller's office a verification of the borrowing limit and
shall include the estimated date on which such borrowing shall
occur. The borrowing limit cap shall be verified by the State
Comptroller's office not prior to 45 days before any estimated
date for executing any promissory note or line of credit
established under this subsection (c). The principal amount
borrowed under a promissory note or line of credit shall not
exceed 75% of the borrowing limit. Within 15 days after
borrowing funds under any promissory note or line of credit
established under this subsection (c), the University shall
submit to the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader
of the House of Representatives, the President of the Senate,
and the Minority Leader of the Senate an Emergency Short Term
Cash Management Plan. The Emergency Short Term Cash Management
Plan shall outline the amount borrowed, the terms for
repayment, the amount of outstanding State vouchers as
verified by the State Comptroller's office, and the
University's plan for expenditure of any borrowed funds,
including, but not limited to, a detailed plan to meet payroll
obligations to include collective bargaining employees, civil

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service employees, and academic, research, and health care
personnel. The establishment of any promissory note or line of
credit established under this subsection (c) must be finalized
within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 96th General Assembly. The borrowed moneys shall be
applied to the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses
lawfully authorized in the University's State appropriation
and unpaid by the State Comptroller. Any line of credit
established under this subsection (c) shall be paid in full
one year after creation or within 10 days after the date the
University receives reimbursement from the State for all
submitted fiscal year 2010 vouchers, whichever is earlier. Any
promissory note established under this subsection (c) shall be
repaid within one year after issuance of the note. The
Chairman, Comptroller, or Treasurer of the Board shall execute
a promissory note or similar debt instrument to evidence the
indebtedness incurred by the borrowing. In connection with a
borrowing, the Board may establish a line of credit with a
financial institution, investment bank, or broker/dealer. The
obligation to make the payments due under any promissory note
or line of credit established under this subsection (c) shall
be a lawful obligation of the University payable from the
anticipated moneys. Any borrowing under this subsection (c)
shall not constitute a debt, legal or moral, of the State and
shall not be enforceable against the State. The promissory
note or line of credit shall be authorized by a resolution

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passed by the Board and shall be valid whether or not a
budgeted item with respect to that resolution is included in
any annual or supplemental budget adopted by the Board. The
resolution shall set forth facts demonstrating the need for
the borrowing, state an amount that the amount to be borrowed
will not exceed, and establish a maximum interest rate limit
not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond
Authorization Act or 9%, whichever is less. The resolution may
direct the Comptroller or Treasurer of the Board to make
arrangements to set apart and hold the portion of the
anticipated moneys, as received, that shall be used to repay
the borrowing, subject to any prior pledges or restrictions
with respect to the anticipated moneys. The resolution may
also authorize the Treasurer of the Board to make partial
repayments of the borrowing as the anticipated moneys become
available and may contain any other terms, restrictions, or
limitations not inconsistent with the powers of the Board.
For the purposes of this subsection (c), "financial
institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking
Act, any savings and loan association subject to the Illinois
Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and any federally chartered
commercial bank or savings and loan association or
government-sponsored enterprise organized and operated in this
State pursuant to the laws of the United States.
(Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21.)

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Section 10. The Southern Illinois University Management
Act is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
(110 ILCS 520/8) (from Ch. 144, par. 658)
Sec. 8. Powers and duties of the Board. The Board shall
have power and it shall be its duty:
1. To make rules, regulations and by-laws, not
inconsistent with law, for the government and management
of Southern Illinois University and its branches.
2. To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a
president of Southern Illinois University, and all
necessary deans, professors, associate professors,
assistant professors, instructors, and other educational
and administrative assistants, and all other necessary
employees, and contract with them upon matters relating to
tenure, salaries and retirement benefits in accordance
with the State Universities Civil Service Act; the Board
shall, upon the written request of an employee of Southern
Illinois University, withhold from the compensation of
that employee any dues, payments or contributions payable
by such employee to any labor organization as defined in
the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Under such
arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular
payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the
annual dues plus any payments or contributions, and the
Board shall transmit such withholdings to the specified

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labor organization within 10 working days from the time of
the withholding. Whenever the Board establishes a search
committee to fill the position of president of Southern
Illinois University, there shall be minority
representation, including women, on that search committee.
3. To prescribe the course of study to be followed,
and textbooks and apparatus to be used at Southern
Illinois University.
4. To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed
the required studies of Southern Illinois University, and
confer such professional and literary degrees as are
usually conferred by other institutions of like character
for similar or equivalent courses of study, or such as the
Board may deem appropriate.
5. To examine into the conditions, management, and
administration of Southern Illinois University, to provide
the requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and
auxiliary enterprises, and to fix and collect
matriculation fees; tuition fees; fees for student
activities; fees for student facilities such as student
union buildings or field houses or stadium or other
recreational facilities; student welfare fees; laboratory
fees and similar fees for supplies and material.
6. To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or

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pertaining to Southern Illinois University.
7. To accept endowments of professorships or
departments in the University from any person who may
proffer them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules
and regulations in relation to endowments and declare on
what general principles they may be accepted.
8. To enter into contracts with the Federal government
for providing courses of instruction and other services at
Southern Illinois University for persons serving in or
with the military or naval forces of the United States,
and to provide such courses of instruction and other
services.
9. To provide for the receipt and expenditures of
Federal funds, paid to the Southern Illinois University by
the Federal government for instruction and other services
for persons serving in or with the military or naval
forces of the United States and to provide for audits of
such funds.
10. To appoint, subject to the applicable civil
service law, persons to be members of the Southern
Illinois University Police Department. Members of the
Police Department shall be conservators of the peace and
as such have all powers possessed by policemen in cities,
and sheriffs, including the power to make arrests on view
or warrants of violations of state statutes, university
rules and regulations and city or county ordinances,

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except that they may exercise such powers only within
counties wherein the university and any of its branches or
properties are located when such is required for the
protection of university properties and interests, and its
students and personnel, and otherwise, within such
counties, when requested by appropriate State or local law
enforcement officials. However, such officers shall have
no power to serve and execute civil processes. The chief
of police of the Police Department has the final decision
on all law enforcement decisions. The president and
chancellors of the University are prohibited from being
involved in law enforcement decisions.
The Board must authorize to each member of the
Southern Illinois University Police Department and to any
other employee of Southern Illinois University exercising
the powers of a peace officer a distinct badge that, on its
face, (i) clearly states that the badge is authorized by
Southern Illinois University and (ii) contains a unique
identifying number. No other badge shall be authorized by
Southern Illinois University.
10.5. To conduct health care programs in furtherance
of its teaching, research, and public service functions,
which shall include without limitation patient and
ancillary facilities, institutes, clinics, or offices
owned, leased, or purchased through an equity interest by
the Board or its appointed designee to carry out such

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activities in the course of or in support of the Board's
academic, clinical, and public service responsibilities.
11. To administer a plan or plans established by the
clinical faculty of the School of Medicine or the School
of Dental Medicine for the billing, collection and
disbursement of charges for services performed in the
course of or in support of the faculty's academic
responsibilities, provided that such plan has been first
approved by Board action. All such collections shall be
deposited into a special fund or funds administered by the
Board from which disbursements may be made according to
the provisions of said plan. The reasonable costs
incurred, by the University, administering the billing,
collection and disbursement provisions of a plan shall
have first priority for payment before distribution or
disbursement for any other purpose. Audited financial
statements of the plan or plans must be provided to the
Legislative Audit Commission annually.
The Board of Trustees may own, operate, or govern, by
or through the School of Medicine, a managed care
community network established under subsection (b) of
Section 5-11 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
12. The Board of Trustees may, directly or in
cooperation with other institutions of higher education,
acquire by purchase or lease or otherwise, and construct,
enlarge, improve, equip, complete, operate, control and

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manage medical research and high technology parks,
together with the necessary lands, buildings, facilities,
equipment, and personal property therefor, to encourage
and facilitate (a) the location and development of
business and industry in the State of Illinois, and (b)
the increased application and development of technology
and (c) the improvement and development of the State's
economy. The Board of Trustees may lease to nonprofit
corporations all or any part of the land, buildings,
facilities, equipment or other property included in a
medical research and high technology park upon such terms
and conditions as the Board of Trustees may deem advisable
and enter into any contract or agreement with such
nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for
the construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
management of any such park; and may lease to any person,
firm, partnership or corporation, either public or
private, any part or all of the land, building,
facilities, equipment or other property of such park for
such purposes and upon such rentals, terms and conditions
as the Board of Trustees may deem advisable; and may
finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including
the purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction,
improvement, remodeling, addition to, and extension and
maintenance of all or part of such high technology park,
and all equipment and furnishings, by legislative

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appropriations, government grants, contracts, private
gifts, loans, receipts from the operation of such high
technology park, rentals and similar receipts; and may
make its other facilities and services available to
tenants or other occupants of any such park at rates which
are reasonable and appropriate.
13. To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time
in anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the
State of Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the
University, also known as anticipated moneys. The
borrowing limit shall be capped at 100% of the total
amount of payroll and other expense vouchers submitted and
payable to the University for fiscal year 2010 expenses,
but unpaid by the State Comptroller's office. Prior to
borrowing any funds, the University shall request from the
Comptroller's office a verification of the borrowing limit
and shall include the estimated date on which such
borrowing shall occur. The borrowing limit cap shall be
verified by the State Comptroller's office not prior to 45
days before any estimated date for executing any
promissory note or line of credit established under this
item 13. The principal amount borrowed under a promissory
note or line of credit shall not exceed 75% of the
borrowing limit. Within 15 days after borrowing funds
under any promissory note or line of credit established
under this item 13, the University shall submit to the

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Governor's Office of Management and Budget, the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader of the
House of Representatives, the President of the Senate, and
the Minority Leader of the Senate an Emergency Short Term
Cash Management Plan. The Emergency Short Term Cash
Management Plan shall outline the amount borrowed, the
terms for repayment, the amount of outstanding State
vouchers as verified by the State Comptroller's office,
and the University's plan for expenditure of any borrowed
funds, including, but not limited to, a detailed plan to
meet payroll obligations to include collective bargaining
employees, civil service employees, and academic,
research, and health care personnel. The establishment of
any promissory note or line of credit established under
this item 13 must be finalized within 90 days after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
Assembly. The borrowed moneys shall be applied to the
purposes of paying salaries and other expenses lawfully
authorized in the University's State appropriation and
unpaid by the State Comptroller. Any line of credit
established under this item 13 shall be paid in full one
year after creation or within 10 days after the date the
University receives reimbursement from the State for all
submitted fiscal year 2010 vouchers, whichever is earlier.
Any promissory note established under this item 13 shall
be repaid within one year after issuance of the note. The

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Chairman, Comptroller, or Treasurer of the Board shall
execute a promissory note or similar debt instrument to
evidence the indebtedness incurred by the borrowing. In
connection with a borrowing, the Board may establish a
line of credit with a financial institution, investment
bank, or broker/dealer. The obligation to make the
payments due under any promissory note or line of credit
established under this item 13 shall be a lawful
obligation of the University payable from the anticipated
moneys. Any borrowing under this item 13 shall not
constitute a debt, legal or moral, of the State and shall
not be enforceable against the State. The promissory note
or line of credit shall be authorized by a resolution
passed by the Board and shall be valid whether or not a
budgeted item with respect to that resolution is included
in any annual or supplemental budget adopted by the Board.
The resolution shall set forth facts demonstrating the
need for the borrowing, state an amount that the amount to
be borrowed will not exceed, and establish a maximum
interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
authorized by the Bond Authorization Act or 9%, whichever
is less. The resolution may direct the Comptroller or
Treasurer of the Board to make arrangements to set apart
and hold the portion of the anticipated moneys, as
received, that shall be used to repay the borrowing,
subject to any prior pledges or restrictions with respect

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to the anticipated moneys. The resolution may also
authorize the Treasurer of the Board to make partial
repayments of the borrowing as the anticipated moneys
become available and may contain any other terms,
restrictions, or limitations not inconsistent with the
powers of the Board.
For the purposes of this item 13, "financial
institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois
Banking Act, any savings and loan association subject to
the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and any
federally chartered commercial bank or savings and loan
association or government-sponsored enterprise organized
and operated in this State pursuant to the laws of the
United States.
The powers of the Board as herein designated are subject
to the Board of Higher Education Act.
(Source: P.A. 100-400, eff. 8-25-17.)
Section 15. The Chicago State University Law is amended by
changing Section 5-45 as follows:
(110 ILCS 660/5-45)
Sec. 5-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall have
power and it shall be its duty:
(1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not
inconsistent with law, for the government and management of

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Chicago State University and its branches;
(2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a President
of Chicago State University, and all necessary deans,
professors, associate professors, assistant professors,
instructors, other educational and administrative assistants,
and all other necessary employees, and to prescribe their
duties and contract with them upon matters relating to tenure,
salaries and retirement benefits in accordance with the State
Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board establishes
a search committee to fill the position of President of
Chicago State University, there shall be minority
representation, including women, on that search committee. The
Board shall, upon the written request of an employee of
Chicago State University, withhold from the compensation of
that employee any dues, payments or contributions payable by
such employee to any labor organization as defined in the
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Under such
arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular
payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the
annual dues plus any payments or contributions, and the Board
shall transmit such withholdings to the specified labor
organization within 10 working days from the time of the
withholding;
(3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed, and
textbooks and apparatus to be used at Chicago State
University;

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(4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
required studies of Chicago State University, and confer such
professional and literary degrees as are usually conferred by
other institutions of like character for similar or equivalent
courses of study, or such as the Board may deem appropriate;
(5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
administration of Chicago State University, to provide the
requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees;
tuition fees; fees for student activities; fees for student
facilities such as student union buildings or field houses or
stadia or other recreational facilities; student welfare fees;
laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials.
The expense of the building, improving, repairing and
supplying fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances and
apparatus for conducting Chicago State University, the
reimbursed expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries
or compensation of the President, assistants, agents and other
employees of Chicago State University, shall be a charge upon
the State Treasury. All other expenses shall be chargeable
against students, and the Board shall regulate the charges
accordingly;
(6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining
to Chicago State University;

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(7) To accept endowments of professorships or departments
in Chicago State University from any person who may proffer
them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules and
regulations in relation to endowments and declare on what
general principles they may be accepted;
(8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government
for providing courses of instruction and other services at
Chicago State University for persons serving in or with the
military or naval forces of the United States, and to provide
such courses of instruction and other services;
(9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
Center to obtain services related to electronic data
processing;
(10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of
Federal funds paid to Chicago State University by the Federal
government for instruction and other services for persons
serving in or with the military or naval forces of the United
States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
(11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
law, persons to be members of the Chicago State University
Police Department. Members of the Police Department shall be
conservators of the peace and as such have all powers
possessed by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the
power to make arrests on view or warrants of violations of
State statutes, University rules and regulations and city or
county ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers

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only within counties wherein Chicago State University and any
of its branches or properties are located when such is
required for the protection of University properties and
interests, and its students and personnel, and otherwise,
within such counties, when requested by appropriate State or
local law enforcement officials. However, such officers shall
have no power to serve and execute civil processes. The chief
of police of the Police Department has the final decision on
all law enforcement decisions. The President and chancellors
of the University are prohibited from being involved in law
enforcement decisions.
The Board must authorize to each member of the Chicago
State University Police Department and to any other employee
of Chicago State University exercising the powers of a peace
officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly states
that the badge is authorized by Chicago State University and
(ii) contains a unique identifying number on its face. No
other badge shall be authorized by Chicago State University;
(12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease
or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
complete, operate, control and manage research and high
technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,

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and (ii) the increased application and development of
technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
or other property included in a research and high technology
park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation
of such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts;
and may make its other facilities and services available to
tenants or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
reasonable and appropriate;
(13) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time in
anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the State of

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Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the University,
also known as anticipated moneys. The borrowing limit shall be
capped at 100% of the total amount of payroll and other expense
vouchers submitted and payable to the University for fiscal
year 2010 expenses, but unpaid by the State Comptroller's
office. Prior to borrowing any funds, the University shall
request from the Comptroller's office a verification of the
borrowing limit and shall include the estimated date on which
such borrowing shall occur. The borrowing limit cap shall be
verified by the State Comptroller's office not prior to 45
days before any estimated date for executing any promissory
note or line of credit established under this item (13). The
principal amount borrowed under a promissory note or line of
credit shall not exceed 75% of the borrowing limit. Within 15
days after borrowing funds under any promissory note or line
of credit established under this item (13), the University
shall submit to the Governor's Office of Management and
Budget, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, the President
of the Senate, and the Minority Leader of the Senate an
Emergency Short Term Cash Management Plan. The Emergency Short
Term Cash Management Plan shall outline the amount borrowed,
the terms for repayment, the amount of outstanding State
vouchers as verified by the State Comptroller's office, and
the University's plan for expenditure of any borrowed funds,
including, but not limited to, a detailed plan to meet payroll

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obligations to include collective bargaining employees, civil
service employees, and academic, research, and health care
personnel. The establishment of any promissory note or line of
credit established under this item (13) must be finalized
within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 96th General Assembly. The borrowed moneys shall be
applied to the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses
lawfully authorized in the University's State appropriation
and unpaid by the State Comptroller. Any line of credit
established under this item (13) shall be paid in full one year
after creation or within 10 days after the date the University
receives reimbursement from the State for all submitted fiscal
year 2010 vouchers, whichever is earlier. Any promissory note
established under this item (13) shall be repaid within one
year after issuance of the note. The Chairman, Comptroller, or
Treasurer of the Board shall execute a promissory note or
similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness incurred
by the borrowing. In connection with a borrowing, the Board
may establish a line of credit with a financial institution,
investment bank, or broker/dealer. The obligation to make the
payments due under any promissory note or line of credit
established under this item (13) shall be a lawful obligation
of the University payable from the anticipated moneys. Any
borrowing under this item (13) shall not constitute a debt,
legal or moral, of the State and shall not be enforceable
against the State. The promissory note or line of credit shall

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be authorized by a resolution passed by the Board and shall be
valid whether or not a budgeted item with respect to that
resolution is included in any annual or supplemental budget
adopted by the Board. The resolution shall set forth facts
demonstrating the need for the borrowing, state an amount that
the amount to be borrowed will not exceed, and establish a
maximum interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
authorized by the Bond Authorization Act or 9%, whichever is
less. The resolution may direct the Comptroller or Treasurer
of the Board to make arrangements to set apart and hold the
portion of the anticipated moneys, as received, that shall be
used to repay the borrowing, subject to any prior pledges or
restrictions with respect to the anticipated moneys. The
resolution may also authorize the Treasurer of the Board to
make partial repayments of the borrowing as the anticipated
moneys become available and may contain any other terms,
restrictions, or limitations not inconsistent with the powers
of the Board.
For the purposes of this item (13), "financial
institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking
Act, any savings and loan association subject to the Illinois
Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and any federally chartered
commercial bank or savings and loan association or
government-sponsored enterprise organized and operated in this
State pursuant to the laws of the United States.
(Source: P.A. 96-909, eff. 6-8-10; 97-333, eff. 8-12-11.)

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Section 20. The Eastern Illinois University Law is amended
by changing Section 10-45 as follows:
(110 ILCS 665/10-45)
Sec. 10-45. Powers and duties.
(a) The Board also shall have power and it shall be its
duty:
(1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not
inconsistent with law, for the government and management
of Eastern Illinois University and its branches.
(2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a
President of Eastern Illinois University, and all
necessary deans, professors, associate professors,
assistant professors, instructors, other educational and
administrative assistants, and all other necessary
employees, and to prescribe their duties and contract with
them upon matters relating to tenure, salaries and
retirement benefits in accordance with the State
Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board
establishes a search committee to fill the position of
President of Eastern Illinois University, there shall be
minority representation, including women, on that search
committee. The Board shall, upon the written request of an
employee of Eastern Illinois University, withhold from the
compensation of that employee any dues, payments or

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contributions payable by such employee to any labor
organization as defined in the Illinois Educational Labor
Relations Act. Under such arrangement, an amount shall be
withheld from each regular payroll period which is equal
to the pro rata share of the annual dues plus any payments
or contributions, and the Board shall transmit such
withholdings to the specified labor organization within 10
working days from the time of the withholding.
(3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed,
and textbooks and apparatus to be used at Eastern Illinois
University.
(4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed
the required studies of Eastern Illinois University, and
confer such professional and literary degrees as are
usually conferred by other institutions of like character
for similar or equivalent courses of study, or such as the
Board may deem appropriate.
(5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
administration of Eastern Illinois University, to provide
the requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and
auxiliary enterprises, and to fix and collect
matriculation fees; tuition fees; fees for student
activities; fees for student facilities such as student
union buildings or field houses or stadia or other
recreational facilities; student welfare fees; laboratory

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fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials. The
expense of the building, improving, repairing and
supplying fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances
and apparatus for conducting Eastern Illinois University,
the reimbursed expenses of members of the Board, and the
salaries or compensation of the President, assistants,
agents and other employees of Eastern Illinois University,
shall be a charge upon the State Treasury. All other
expenses shall be chargeable against students, and the
Board shall regulate the charges accordingly.
(6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or
pertaining to Eastern Illinois University.
(7) To accept endowments of professorships or
departments in Eastern Illinois University from any person
who may proffer them and, at regular meetings, to
prescribe rules and regulations in relation to endowments
and declare on what general principles they may be
accepted.
(8) To enter into contracts with the Federal
government for providing courses of instruction and other
services at Eastern Illinois University for persons
serving in or with the military or naval forces of the
United States, and to provide such courses of instruction
and other services.
(9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative

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Computer Center to obtain services related to electronic
data processing.
(10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of
Federal funds paid to Eastern Illinois University by the
Federal government for instruction and other services for
persons serving in or with the military or naval forces of
the United States, and to provide for audits of such
funds.
(11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil
service law, persons to be members of the Eastern Illinois
University Police Department. Members of the Police
Department shall be conservators of the peace and as such
have all powers possessed by policemen in cities, and
sheriffs, including the power to make arrests on view or
warrants of violations of State statutes, University rules
and regulations and city or county ordinances, except that
they may exercise such powers only within counties wherein
Eastern Illinois University and any of its branches or
properties are located when such is required for the
protection of University properties and interests, and its
students and personnel, and otherwise, within such
counties, when requested by appropriate State or local law
enforcement officials. However, such officers shall have
no power to serve and execute civil processes. The chief
of police of the Police Department has the final decision
on all law enforcement decisions. The President and

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chancellors of the University are prohibited from being
involved in law enforcement decisions.
The Board must authorize to each member of the Eastern
Illinois University Police Department and to any other
employee of Eastern Illinois University exercising the
powers of a peace officer a distinct badge that, on its
face, (i) clearly states that the badge is authorized by
Eastern Illinois University and (ii) contains a unique
identifying number. No other badge shall be authorized by
Eastern Illinois University.
(12) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time
in anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the
State of Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the
University, also known as anticipated moneys. The
borrowing limit shall be capped at 100% of the total
amount of payroll and other expense vouchers submitted and
payable to the University for fiscal year 2010 expenses,
but unpaid by the State Comptroller's office. Prior to
borrowing any funds, the University shall request from the
Comptroller's office a verification of the borrowing limit
and shall include the estimated date on which such
borrowing shall occur. The borrowing limit cap shall be
verified by the State Comptroller's office not prior to 45
days before any estimated date for executing any
promissory note or line of credit established under this
item (12). The principal amount borrowed under a

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promissory note or line of credit shall not exceed 75% of
the borrowing limit. Within 15 days after borrowing funds
under any promissory note or line of credit established
under this item (12), the University shall submit to the
Governor's Office of Management and Budget, the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader of the
House of Representatives, the President of the Senate, and
the Minority Leader of the Senate an Emergency Short Term
Cash Management Plan. The Emergency Short Term Cash
Management Plan shall outline the amount borrowed, the
terms for repayment, the amount of outstanding State
vouchers as verified by the State Comptroller's office,
and the University's plan for expenditure of any borrowed
funds, including, but not limited to, a detailed plan to
meet payroll obligations to include collective bargaining
employees, civil service employees, and academic,
research, and health care personnel. The establishment of
any promissory note or line of credit established under
this item (12) must be finalized within 90 days after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
Assembly. The borrowed moneys shall be applied to the
purposes of paying salaries and other expenses lawfully
authorized in the University's State appropriation and
unpaid by the State Comptroller. Any line of credit
established under this item (12) shall be paid in full one
year after creation or within 10 days after the date the

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University receives reimbursement from the State for all
submitted fiscal year 2010 vouchers, whichever is earlier.
Any promissory note established under this item (12) shall
be repaid within one year after issuance of the note. The
Chairman, Comptroller, or Treasurer of the Board shall
execute a promissory note or similar debt instrument to
evidence the indebtedness incurred by the borrowing. In
connection with a borrowing, the Board may establish a
line of credit with a financial institution, investment
bank, or broker/dealer. The obligation to make the
payments due under any promissory note or line of credit
established under this item (12) shall be a lawful
obligation of the University payable from the anticipated
moneys. Any borrowing under this item (12) shall not
constitute a debt, legal or moral, of the State and shall
not be enforceable against the State. The promissory note
or line of credit shall be authorized by a resolution
passed by the Board and shall be valid whether or not a
budgeted item with respect to that resolution is included
in any annual or supplemental budget adopted by the Board.
The resolution shall set forth facts demonstrating the
need for the borrowing, state an amount that the amount to
be borrowed will not exceed, and establish a maximum
interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
authorized by the Bond Authorization Act or 9%, whichever
is less. The resolution may direct the Comptroller or

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Treasurer of the Board to make arrangements to set apart
and hold the portion of the anticipated moneys, as
received, that shall be used to repay the borrowing,
subject to any prior pledges or restrictions with respect
to the anticipated moneys. The resolution may also
authorize the Treasurer of the Board to make partial
repayments of the borrowing as the anticipated moneys
become available and may contain any other terms,
restrictions, or limitations not inconsistent with the
powers of the Board.
For the purposes of this item (12), "financial
institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois
Banking Act, any savings and loan association subject to
the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and any
federally chartered commercial bank or savings and loan
association or government-sponsored enterprise organized
and operated in this State pursuant to the laws of the
United States.
(b) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease
or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
complete, operate, control and manage research and high
technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,

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and (ii) the increased application and development of
technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
or other property included in a research and high technology
park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation
of such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts;
and may make its other facilities and services available to
tenants or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
reasonable and appropriate.
(c) The Board may sell the following described property
without compliance with the State Property Control Act and

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retain the proceeds in the University treasury in a special,
separate development fund account that the Auditor General
shall examine to assure compliance with this Law:
Lots 511 and 512 in Heritage Woods V, Charleston, Coles
County, Illinois.
Revenues from the development fund account may be withdrawn by
the University for the purpose of upgrading the on-campus
formal reception facility. Moneys from the development fund
account used for any other purpose must be deposited into and
appropriated from the General Revenue Fund.
(Source: P.A. 96-909, eff. 6-8-10; 97-333, eff. 8-12-11.)
Section 25. The Governors State University Law is amended
by changing Section 15-45 as follows:
(110 ILCS 670/15-45)
Sec. 15-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall have
power and it shall be its duty:
(1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not
inconsistent with law, for the government and management of
Governors State University and its branches;
(2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a President
of Governors State University, and all necessary deans,
professors, associate professors, assistant professors,
instructors, other educational and administrative assistants,
and all other necessary employees, and to prescribe their

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duties and contract with them upon matters relating to tenure,
salaries and retirement benefits in accordance with the State
Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board establishes
a search committee to fill the position of President of
Governors State University, there shall be minority
representation, including women, on that search committee. The
Board shall, upon the written request of an employee of
Governors State University, withhold from the compensation of
that employee any dues, payments or contributions payable by
such employee to any labor organization as defined in the
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Under such
arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular
payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the
annual dues plus any payments or contributions, and the Board
shall transmit such withholdings to the specified labor
organization within 10 working days from the time of the
withholding;
(3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed, and
textbooks and apparatus to be used at Governors State
University;
(4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
required studies of Governors State University, and confer
such professional and literary degrees as are usually
conferred by other institutions of like character for similar
or equivalent courses of study, or such as the Board may deem

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appropriate;
(5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
administration of Governors State University, to provide the
requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees;
tuition fees; fees for student activities; fees for student
facilities such as student union buildings or field houses or
stadia or other recreational facilities; student welfare fees;
laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials.
The expense of the building, improving, repairing and
supplying fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances and
apparatus for conducting Governors State University, the
reimbursed expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries
or compensation of the President, assistants, agents and other
employees of Governors State University, shall be a charge
upon the State Treasury. All other expenses shall be
chargeable against students, and the Board shall regulate the
charges accordingly;
(6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining
to Governors State University;
(7) To accept endowments of professorships or departments
in Governors State University from any person who may proffer
them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules and
regulations in relation to endowments and declare on what
general principles they may be accepted;

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(8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government
for providing courses of instruction and other services at
Governors State University for persons serving in or with the
military or naval forces of the United States, and to provide
such courses of instruction and other services;
(9) To operate, maintain, and contract with respect to the
Cooperative Computer Center for its own purposes and to
provide services related to electronic data processing to
other public and private colleges and universities, to
governmental agencies, and to public or private not-for-profit
agencies; and to examine the conditions, management, and
administration of the Cooperative Computer Center;
(10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of
Federal funds paid to Governors State University by the
Federal government for instruction and other services for
persons serving in or with the military or naval forces of the
United States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
(11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
law, persons to be members of the Governors State University
Police Department. Members of the Police Department shall be
conservators of the peace and as such have all powers
possessed by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the
power to make arrests on view or warrants of violations of
State statutes, University rules and regulations and city or
county ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers
only within counties wherein Governors State University and

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any of its branches or properties are located when such is
required for the protection of University properties and
interests, and its students and personnel, and otherwise,
within such counties, when requested by appropriate State or
local law enforcement officials. However, such officers shall
have no power to serve and execute civil processes. The chief
of police of the Police Department has the final decision on
all law enforcement decisions. The President and chancellors
of the University are prohibited from being involved in law
enforcement decisions.
The Board must authorize to each member of the Governors
State University Police Department and to any other employee
of Governors State University exercising the powers of a peace
officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly states
that the badge is authorized by Governors State University and
(ii) contains a unique identifying number. No other badge
shall be authorized by Governors State University;
(12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease
or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
complete, operate, control and manage research and high
technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
and (ii) the increased application and development of

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technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
or other property included in a research and high technology
park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation
of such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts;
and may make its other facilities and services available to
tenants or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
reasonable and appropriate;
(13) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time in
anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the State of
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also known as anticipated moneys. The borrowing limit shall be
capped at 100% of the total amount of payroll and other expense
vouchers submitted and payable to the University for fiscal
year 2010 expenses, but unpaid by the State Comptroller's
office. Prior to borrowing any funds, the University shall
request from the Comptroller's office a verification of the
borrowing limit and shall include the estimated date on which
such borrowing shall occur. The borrowing limit cap shall be
verified by the State Comptroller's office not prior to 45
days before any estimated date for executing any promissory
note or line of credit established under this item (13). The
principal amount borrowed under a promissory note or line of
credit shall not exceed 75% of the borrowing limit. Within 15
days after borrowing funds under any promissory note or line
of credit established under this item (13), the University
shall submit to the Governor's Office of Management and
Budget, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, the President
of the Senate, and the Minority Leader of the Senate an
Emergency Short Term Cash Management Plan. The Emergency Short
Term Cash Management Plan shall outline the amount borrowed,
the terms for repayment, the amount of outstanding State
vouchers as verified by the State Comptroller's office, and
the University's plan for expenditure of any borrowed funds,
including, but not limited to, a detailed plan to meet payroll
obligations for all collective bargaining employees, civil

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service employees, and academic, research, and health care
personnel. The establishment of any promissory note or line of
credit established under this item (13) must be finalized
within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 96th General Assembly. The borrowed moneys shall be
applied to the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses
lawfully authorized in the University's State appropriation
and unpaid by the State Comptroller. Any line of credit
established under this item (13) shall be paid in full one year
after creation or on such date as the University receives
reimbursement from the State for all submitted fiscal year
2010 vouchers, whichever is earlier. Any promissory note
established under this item (13) shall be repaid within one
year after issuance of the note. The Chairman, Comptroller, or
Treasurer of the Board shall execute a promissory note or
similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness incurred
by the borrowing. In connection with a borrowing, the Board
may establish a line of credit with a financial institution,
investment bank, or broker/dealer. The obligation to make the
payments due under any promissory note or line of credit
established under this item (13) shall be a lawful obligation
of the University payable from the anticipated moneys. Any
borrowing under this item (13) shall not constitute a debt,
legal or moral, of the State and shall not be enforceable
against the State. The line of credit shall be authorized by a
resolution passed by the Board and shall be valid whether or

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not a budgeted item with respect to that resolution is
included in any annual or supplemental budget adopted by the
Board. The resolution shall set forth facts demonstrating the
need for the borrowing, state an amount that the amount to be
borrowed will not exceed, and establish a maximum interest
rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the
Bond Authorization Act or 9%, whichever is less. The
resolution may direct the Comptroller or Treasurer of the
Board to make arrangements to set apart and hold the portion of
the anticipated moneys, as received, that shall be used to
repay the borrowing, subject to any prior pledges or
restrictions with respect to the anticipated moneys. The
resolution may also authorize the Treasurer of the Board to
make partial repayments of the borrowing as the anticipated
moneys become available and may contain any other terms,
restrictions, or limitations not inconsistent with the powers
of the Board.
For the purposes of this item (13), "financial
institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking
Act, any savings and loan association subject to the Illinois
Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and any federally chartered
commercial bank or savings and loan association or
government-sponsored enterprise organized and operated in this
State pursuant to the laws of the United States.
(Source: P.A. 96-909, eff. 6-8-10; 97-333, eff. 8-12-11.)

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Section 30. The Illinois State University Law is amended
by changing Section 20-45 as follows:
(110 ILCS 675/20-45)
Sec. 20-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall have
power and it shall be its duty:
(1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not
inconsistent with law, for the government and management of
Illinois State University and its branches;
(2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a President
of Illinois State University, and all necessary deans,
professors, associate professors, assistant professors,
instructors, other educational and administrative assistants,
and all other necessary employees, and to prescribe their
duties and contract with them upon matters relating to tenure,
salaries and retirement benefits in accordance with the State
Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board establishes
a search committee to fill the position of President of
Illinois State University, there shall be minority
representation, including women, on that search committee. The
Board shall, upon the written request of an employee of
Illinois State University, withhold from the compensation of
that employee any dues, payments or contributions payable by
such employee to any labor organization as defined in the
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Under such
arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular

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payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the
annual dues plus any payments or contributions, and the Board
shall transmit such withholdings to the specified labor
organization within 10 working days from the time of the
withholding;
(3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed, and
textbooks and apparatus to be used at Illinois State
University;
(4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
required studies of Illinois State University, and confer such
professional and literary degrees as are usually conferred by
other institutions of like character for similar or equivalent
courses of study, or such as the Board may deem appropriate;
(5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
administration of Illinois State University, to provide the
requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees;
tuition fees; fees for student activities; fees for student
facilities such as student union buildings or field houses or
stadia or other recreational facilities; student welfare fees;
laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials.
The expense of the building, improving, repairing and
supplying fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances and
apparatus for conducting Illinois State University, the
reimbursed expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries

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or compensation of the President, assistants, agents and other
employees of Illinois State University, shall be a charge upon
the State Treasury. All other expenses shall be chargeable
against students, and the Board shall regulate the charges
accordingly;
(6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining
to Illinois State University;
(7) To accept endowments of professorships or departments
in Illinois State University from any person who may proffer
them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules and
regulations in relation to endowments and declare on what
general principles they may be accepted;
(8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government
for providing courses of instruction and other services at
Illinois State University for persons serving in or with the
military or naval forces of the United States, and to provide
such courses of instruction and other services;
(9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
Center to obtain services related to electronic data
processing;
(10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of
Federal funds paid to Illinois State University by the Federal
government for instruction and other services for persons
serving in or with the military or naval forces of the United
States, and to provide for audits of such funds;

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(11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
law, persons to be members of the Illinois State University
Police Department. Members of the Police Department shall be
conservators of the peace and as such have all powers
possessed by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the
power to make arrests on view or warrants of violations of
State statutes, University rules and regulations and city or
county ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers
only within counties wherein Illinois State University and any
of its branches or properties are located when such is
required for the protection of University properties and
interests, and its students and personnel, and otherwise,
within such counties, when requested by appropriate State or
local law enforcement officials. However, such officers shall
have no power to serve and execute civil processes. The chief
of police of the Police Department has the final decision on
all law enforcement decisions. The President and chancellors
of the University are prohibited from being involved in law
enforcement decisions.
The Board must authorize to each member of the Illinois
State University Police Department and to any other employee
of Illinois State University exercising the powers of a peace
officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i) clearly states
that the badge is authorized by Illinois State University and
(ii) contains a unique identifying number. No other badge
shall be authorized by Illinois State University;

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(12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease
or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
complete, operate, control and manage research and high
technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
and (ii) the increased application and development of
technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
or other property included in a research and high technology
park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and

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furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation
of such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts;
and may make its other facilities and services available to
tenants or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
reasonable and appropriate;
(13) To assist in the provision of lands, buildings, and
facilities that are supportive of university purposes and
suitable and appropriate for the conduct and operation of the
university's education programs, the Board of Trustees of
Illinois State University may exercise the powers specified in
subparagraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this paragraph (13) with
regard to the following described property located near the
Normal, Illinois campus of Illinois State University:
Parcel 1: Approximately 300 acres that form a part of the
Illinois State University Farm in Section 20, Township 24
North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian in
McLean County, Illinois.
Parcels 2 and 3: Lands located in the Northeast Quadrant
of the City of Normal in McLean County, Illinois, one such
parcel consisting of approximately 150 acres located north
and east of the old Illinois Soldiers and Sailors
Children's School campus, and another such parcel, located
in the Northeast Quadrant of the old Soldiers and Sailors
Children's School Campus, consisting of approximately
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(a) The Board of Trustees may sell, lease, or
otherwise transfer and convey all or part of the above
described parcels of real estate, together with the
improvements situated thereon, to a bona fide purchaser
for value, without compliance with the State Property
Control Act and on such terms as the Board of Trustees
shall determine are in the best interests of Illinois
State University and consistent with its objects and
purposes.
(b) The Board of Trustees may retain the proceeds from
the sale, lease, or other transfer of all or any part of
the above described parcels of real estate in the
University treasury, in a special, separate development
fund account that the Auditor General shall examine to
assure the use or deposit of those proceeds in a manner
consistent with the provisions of subparagraph (c) of this
paragraph (13).
(c) Moneys from the development fund account may be
used by the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University
to acquire and develop other land to achieve the same
purposes for which the parcels of real estate described in
this item (13), all or a part of which have been sold,
leased, or otherwise transferred and conveyed, were used
and for the purpose of demolition and the processes
associated with demolition on the acquired land. Moneys
from the development fund account used for any other

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purpose must be deposited into and appropriated from the
General Revenue Fund. Buildings or facilities leased to an
entity or person other than the University shall not be
subject to any limitations applicable to a State-supported
college or university under any law. All development on
the land and all the use of any buildings or facilities
shall be subject to the control and approval of the Board
of Trustees of Illinois State University;
(14) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time in
anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the State of
Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the University,
also known as anticipated moneys. The borrowing limit shall be
capped at 100% of the total amount of payroll and other expense
vouchers submitted and payable to the University for fiscal
year 2010 expenses, but unpaid by the State Comptroller's
office. Prior to borrowing any funds, the University shall
request from the Comptroller's office a verification of the
borrowing limit and shall include the estimated date on which
such borrowing shall occur. The borrowing limit cap shall be
verified by the State Comptroller's office not prior to 45
days before any estimated date for executing any promissory
note or line of credit established under this item (14). The
principal amount borrowed under a promissory note or line of
credit shall not exceed 75% of the borrowing limit. Within 15
days after borrowing funds under any promissory note or line
of credit established under this item (14), the University

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shall submit to the Governor's Office of Management and
Budget, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, the President
of the Senate, and the Minority Leader of the Senate an
Emergency Short Term Cash Management Plan. The Emergency Short
Term Cash Management Plan shall outline the amount borrowed,
the terms for repayment, the amount of outstanding State
vouchers as verified by the State Comptroller's office, and
the University's plan for expenditure of any borrowed funds,
including, but not limited to, a detailed plan to meet payroll
obligations to include collective bargaining employees, civil
service employees, and academic, research, and health care
personnel. The establishment of any promissory note or line of
credit established under this item (14) must be finalized
within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 96th General Assembly. The borrowed moneys shall be
applied to the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses
lawfully authorized in the University's State appropriation
and unpaid by the State Comptroller. Any line of credit
established under this item (14) shall be paid in full one year
after creation or within 10 days after the date the University
receives reimbursement from the State for all submitted fiscal
year 2010 vouchers, whichever is earlier. Any promissory note
established under this item (14) shall be repaid within one
year after issuance of the note. The Chairman, Comptroller, or
Treasurer of the Board shall execute a promissory note or

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similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness incurred
by the borrowing. In connection with a borrowing, the Board
may establish a line of credit with a financial institution,
investment bank, or broker/dealer. The obligation to make the
payments due under any promissory note or line of credit
established under this item (14) shall be a lawful obligation
of the University payable from the anticipated moneys. Any
borrowing under this item (14) shall not constitute a debt,
legal or moral, of the State and shall not be enforceable
against the State. The promissory note or line of credit shall
be authorized by a resolution passed by the Board and shall be
valid whether or not a budgeted item with respect to that
resolution is included in any annual or supplemental budget
adopted by the Board. The resolution shall set forth facts
demonstrating the need for the borrowing, state an amount that
the amount to be borrowed will not exceed, and establish a
maximum interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
authorized by the Bond Authorization Act or 9%, whichever is
less. The resolution may direct the Comptroller or Treasurer
of the Board to make arrangements to set apart and hold the
portion of the anticipated moneys, as received, that shall be
used to repay the borrowing, subject to any prior pledges or
restrictions with respect to the anticipated moneys. The
resolution may also authorize the Treasurer of the Board to
make partial repayments of the borrowing as the anticipated
moneys become available and may contain any other terms,

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restrictions, or limitations not inconsistent with the powers
of the Board.
For the purposes of this item (14), "financial
institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking
Act, any savings and loan association subject to the Illinois
Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and any federally chartered
commercial bank or savings and loan association or
government-sponsored enterprise organized and operated in this
State pursuant to the laws of the United States.
(Source: P.A. 96-909, eff. 6-8-10; 97-333, eff. 8-12-11.)
Section 35. The Northeastern Illinois University Law is
amended by changing Section 25-45 as follows:
(110 ILCS 680/25-45)
Sec. 25-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall have
power and it shall be its duty:
(1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not
inconsistent with law, for the government and management of
Northeastern Illinois University and its branches;
(2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a President
of Northeastern Illinois University, and all necessary deans,
professors, associate professors, assistant professors,
instructors, other educational and administrative assistants,
and all other necessary employees, and to prescribe their
duties and contract with them upon matters relating to tenure,

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salaries and retirement benefits in accordance with the State
Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board establishes
a search committee to fill the position of President of
Northeastern Illinois University, there shall be minority
representation, including women, on that search committee. The
Board shall, upon the written request of an employee of
Northeastern Illinois University, withhold from the
compensation of that employee any dues, payments or
contributions payable by such employee to any labor
organization as defined in the Illinois Educational Labor
Relations Act. Under such arrangement, an amount shall be
withheld from each regular payroll period which is equal to
the pro rata share of the annual dues plus any payments or
contributions, and the Board shall transmit such withholdings
to the specified labor organization within 10 working days
from the time of the withholding;
(3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed, and
textbooks and apparatus to be used at Northeastern Illinois
University;
(4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
required studies of Northeastern Illinois University, and
confer such professional and literary degrees as are usually
conferred by other institutions of like character for similar
or equivalent courses of study, or such as the Board may deem
appropriate;

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(5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
administration of Northeastern Illinois University, to provide
the requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees;
tuition fees; fees for student activities; fees for student
facilities such as student union buildings or field houses or
stadia or other recreational facilities; student welfare fees;
laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials.
The expense of the building, improving, repairing and
supplying fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances and
apparatus for conducting Northeastern Illinois University, the
reimbursed expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries
or compensation of the President, assistants, agents and other
employees of Northeastern Illinois University, shall be a
charge upon the State Treasury. All other expenses shall be
chargeable against students, and the Board shall regulate the
charges accordingly;
(6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining
to Northeastern Illinois University;
(7) To accept endowments of professorships or departments
in Northeastern Illinois University from any person who may
proffer them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules and
regulations in relation to endowments and declare on what
general principles they may be accepted;
(8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government

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for providing courses of instruction and other services at
Northeastern Illinois University for persons serving in or
with the military or naval forces of the United States, and to
provide such courses of instruction and other services;
(9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
Center to obtain services related to electronic data
processing;
(10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of
Federal funds paid to Northeastern Illinois University by the
Federal government for instruction and other services for
persons serving in or with the military or naval forces of the
United States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
(11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
law, persons to be members of the Northeastern Illinois
University Police Department. Members of the Police Department
shall be conservators of the peace and as such have all powers
possessed by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the
power to make arrests on view or warrants of violations of
State statutes, University rules and regulations and city or
county ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers
only within counties wherein Northeastern Illinois University
and any of its branches or properties are located when such is
required for the protection of University properties and
interests, and its students and personnel, and otherwise,
within such counties, when requested by appropriate State or
local law enforcement officials. However, such officers shall

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have no power to serve and execute civil processes. The chief
of police of the Police Department has the final decision on
all law enforcement decisions. The President and chancellors
of the University are prohibited from being involved in law
enforcement decisions.
The Board must authorize to each member of the
Northeastern Illinois University Police Department and to any
other employee of Northeastern Illinois University exercising
the powers of a peace officer a distinct badge that, on its
face, (i) clearly states that the badge is authorized by
Northeastern Illinois University and (ii) contains a unique
identifying number. No other badge shall be authorized by
Northeastern Illinois University;
(12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease
or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
complete, operate, control and manage research and high
technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
and (ii) the increased application and development of
technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
or other property included in a research and high technology

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park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation
of such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts;
and may make its other facilities and services available to
tenants or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
reasonable and appropriate;
(13) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time in
anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the State of
Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the University,
also known as anticipated moneys. The borrowing limit shall be
capped at 100% of the total amount of payroll and other expense
vouchers submitted and payable to the University for fiscal
year 2010 expenses, but unpaid by the State Comptroller's

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office. Prior to borrowing any funds, the University shall
request from the Comptroller's office a verification of the
borrowing limit and shall include the estimated date on which
such borrowing shall occur. The borrowing limit cap shall be
verified by the State Comptroller's office not prior to 45
days before any estimated date for executing any promissory
note or line of credit established under this item (13). The
principal amount borrowed under a promissory note or line of
credit shall not exceed 75% of the borrowing limit. Within 15
days after borrowing funds under any promissory note or line
of credit established under this item (13), the University
shall submit to the Governor's Office of Management and
Budget, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, the President
of the Senate, and the Minority Leader of the Senate an
Emergency Short Term Cash Management Plan. The Emergency Short
Term Cash Management Plan shall outline the amount borrowed,
the terms for repayment, the amount of outstanding State
vouchers as verified by the State Comptroller's office, and
the University's plan for expenditure of any borrowed funds,
including, but not limited to, a detailed plan to meet payroll
obligations to include collective bargaining employees, civil
service employees, and academic, research, and health care
personnel. The establishment of any promissory note or line of
credit established under this item (13) must be finalized
within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act

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of the 96th General Assembly. The borrowed moneys shall be
applied to the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses
lawfully authorized in the University's State appropriation
and unpaid by the State Comptroller. Any line of credit
established under this item (13) shall be paid in full one year
after creation or within 10 days after the date the University
receives reimbursement from the State for all submitted fiscal
year 2010 vouchers, whichever is earlier. Any promissory note
established under this item (13) shall be repaid within one
year after issuance of the note. The Chairman, Comptroller, or
Treasurer of the Board shall execute a promissory note or
similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness incurred
by the borrowing. In connection with a borrowing, the Board
may establish a line of credit with a financial institution,
investment bank, or broker/dealer. The obligation to make the
payments due under any promissory note or line of credit
established under this item (13) shall be a lawful obligation
of the University payable from the anticipated moneys. Any
borrowing under this item (13) shall not constitute a debt,
legal or moral, of the State and shall not be enforceable
against the State. The promissory note or line of credit shall
be authorized by a resolution passed by the Board and shall be
valid whether or not a budgeted item with respect to that
resolution is included in any annual or supplemental budget
adopted by the Board. The resolution shall set forth facts
demonstrating the need for the borrowing, state an amount that

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the amount to be borrowed will not exceed, and establish a
maximum interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
authorized by the Bond Authorization Act or 9%, whichever is
less. The resolution may direct the Comptroller or Treasurer
of the Board to make arrangements to set apart and hold the
portion of the anticipated moneys, as received, that shall be
used to repay the borrowing, subject to any prior pledges or
restrictions with respect to the anticipated moneys. The
resolution may also authorize the Treasurer of the Board to
make partial repayments of the borrowing as the anticipated
moneys become available and may contain any other terms,
restrictions, or limitations not inconsistent with the powers
of the Board.
For the purposes of this item (13), "financial
institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking
Act, any savings and loan association subject to the Illinois
Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and any federally chartered
commercial bank or savings and loan association or
government-sponsored enterprise organized and operated in this
State pursuant to the laws of the United States.
(Source: P.A. 96-909, eff. 6-8-10; 97-333, eff. 8-12-11.)
Section 40. The Northern Illinois University Law is
amended by changing Section 30-45 as follows:
(110 ILCS 685/30-45)

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Sec. 30-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall have
power and it shall be its duty:
(1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not
inconsistent with law, for the government and management of
Northern Illinois University and its branches.
(2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a President
of Northern Illinois University, and all necessary deans,
professors, associate professors, assistant professors,
instructors, other educational and administrative assistants,
and all other necessary employees, and to prescribe their
duties and contract with them upon matters relating to tenure,
salaries and retirement benefits in accordance with the State
Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board establishes
a search committee to fill the position of President of
Northern Illinois University, there shall be minority
representation, including women, on that search committee. The
Board shall, upon the written request of an employee of
Northern Illinois University, withhold from the compensation
of that employee any dues, payments or contributions payable
by such employee to any labor organization as defined in the
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Under such
arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular
payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the
annual dues plus any payments or contributions, and the Board
shall transmit such withholdings to the specified labor
organization within 10 working days from the time of the

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withholding.
(3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed, and
textbooks and apparatus to be used at Northern Illinois
University.
(4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
required studies of Northern Illinois University, and confer
such professional and literary degrees as are usually
conferred by other institutions of like character for similar
or equivalent courses of study, or such as the Board may deem
appropriate.
(5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
administration of Northern Illinois University, to provide the
requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees;
tuition fees; fees for student activities; fees for student
facilities such as student union buildings or field houses or
stadia or other recreational facilities; student welfare fees;
laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials.
The expense of the building, improving, repairing and
supplying fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances and
apparatus for conducting Northern Illinois University, the
reimbursed expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries
or compensation of the President, assistants, agents and other
employees of Northern Illinois University, shall be a charge
upon the State Treasury. All other expenses shall be

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chargeable against students, and the Board shall regulate the
charges accordingly.
(6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining
to Northern Illinois University.
(7) To accept endowments of professorships or departments
in Northern Illinois University from any person who may
proffer them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules and
regulations in relation to endowments and declare on what
general principles they may be accepted.
(8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government
for providing courses of instruction and other services at
Northern Illinois University for persons serving in or with
the military or naval forces of the United States, and to
provide such courses of instruction and other services.
(9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
Center to obtain services related to electronic data
processing.
(10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of
Federal funds paid to Northern Illinois University by the
Federal government for instruction and other services for
persons serving in or with the military or naval forces of the
United States, and to provide for audits of such funds.
(11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service
law, persons to be members of the Northern Illinois University
Police Department. Members of the Police Department shall be

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conservators of the peace and as such have all powers
possessed by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the
power to make arrests on view or warrants of violations of
State statutes, University rules and regulations and city or
county ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers
only within counties wherein Northern Illinois University and
any of its branches or properties are located when such is
required for the protection of University properties and
interests, and its students and personnel, and otherwise,
within such counties, when requested by appropriate State or
local law enforcement officials. However, such officers shall
have no power to serve and execute civil processes. The chief
of police of the Police Department has the final decision on
all law enforcement decisions. The President and chancellors
of the University are prohibited from being involved in law
enforcement decisions.
The Board must authorize to each member of the Northern
Illinois University Police Department and to any other
employee of Northern Illinois University exercising the powers
of a peace officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i)
clearly states that the badge is authorized by Northern
Illinois University and (ii) contains a unique identifying
number. No other badge shall be authorized by Northern
Illinois University.
(12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease

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or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
complete, operate, control and manage research and high
technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
and (ii) the increased application and development of
technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
or other property included in a research and high technology
park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
or part of such high technology park, and all equipment and
furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
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of such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts;
and may make its other facilities and services available to
tenants or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
reasonable and appropriate.
(13) To assist in the provision of buildings and
facilities beneficial to, useful for, or supportive of
university purposes, the Board of Trustees of Northern
Illinois University may exercise the following powers with
regard to the areas bounded as follows:
Parcel 1:
In Township 40 North, Range 4 East, of the Third Prime
Meridian, County of DeKalb, State of Illinois: The East
half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 17, the Southwest
Quarter of Section 16, and the Northwest Quarter of
Section 21, all in the County of DeKalb, Illinois.
Parcel 2:
In Township 40 North, Range 4 East, of the Third Prime
Meridian, County of DeKalb, State of Illinois: On the
North, by a line beginning at the Northwest corner of the
Southeast Quarter of Section 15; thence East 1,903.3 feet;
thence South to the North line of the Southeast Quarter of
the Southeast Quarter of Section 15; thence East along
said line to North First Street; on the West by Garden Road
between Lucinda Avenue and the North boundary; thence on
the South by Lucinda Avenue between Garden Road and the
intersection of Lucinda Avenue and the South Branch of the

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Kishwaukee River, and by the South Branch of the
Kishwaukee River between such intersection and easterly to
the intersection of such river and North First Street;
thence on the East by North First Street.
Parcel 3:
That Part of Lot 4 in the Sears Business Park Subdivison,
being a subdivison of part of the East 1/2 of Section 31,
and that part of Section 32, and that part of the West 1/2
of Section 33, all in Township 42 North, Range 9, East of
the Third Principal Meridian and also that part of
fractional section 3, and fractional section 4, both in
Township 41 North, Range 9, East of the Third Principal
Meridian according to the plat thereof recorded March 7,
1991 as Document no. 91103116, in Cook County, Illinois,
More particularly described as follows: Commencing at the
Northwest corner of the northwest 1/4 of the southwest 1/4
of said section 32; thence south 89 ° 40' 15" East along
the North line of the Northwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of
said section 32, a distance of 164.57 feet to a point
thence South 0° 19' 45" West, a distance of 326.21 feet to
the Southerly right-of-way line boulevard "A" being also
point of beginning : Thence South 76°44'08" East, a
distance of 84.61 feet to a point of curvature: thence
southeasterly 267.01 feet along the arc of a circle,
convex to the southeast, having a radius of 3,550.00 feet
and whose chord of 266.95 feet bears South 78° 53'07" East

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to a point; thence South 32°22'21" East, a distance of
374.66 feet to a point; thence South 73°35'18" west, a
distance of 89.48 feet to a point; thence North 74°09'49"
west, a distance of 97.37 feet to a point; thence South
74°56'20" West, a distance of 103.60 feet to a point;
thence South 57°44'26" West, a distance of 150.18 feet to
a point; thence North 32°22'20" West, a distance of 346.61
feet; thence North 13°15'53" East, a distance of 205.84
feet to the point of beginning; Containing 169,817.1 sq.
ft. or 3.8985 acres, more or less, all in Cook County,
Illinois.
Parcel 4:
Part of Section Twenty-four (24), Township Forty-four (44)
North, Range Two (2) East of the Third (3rd) Principal
Meridian, bounded and described as follows, to-wit:
Commencing at the Northwest corner of the East Half of the
Northwest Quarter of said Section; thence South
00°-34'-13" West, along the West line of the East Half of
the Northwest Quarter of said Section, 2,646.48 feet to
its intersection with the Southwest corner of the East
Half of the Northwest Quarter of said Section; thence
South 00°-32'-41" West, along the West line of the East
Half of the Southwest Quarter of said Section, 1,141.57
feet to its intersection with the North Right-of-Way line
for U.S. Route 20 as now laid out and used; thence North
80°-25'-35" East, along said North Right-of-Way line,

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1,303.19 feet; thence North 74°-42'-57" East, along said
North Right-of-Way line, (100.50 feet; thence North
80°-25'-35" East, along said North Right-of-Way line.)
116.08 feet to the point of beginning for the following
described parcel; thence North 09°-34'- 25" West, 533.87
feet; thence Northeasterly, along a circular curve to the
left having a radius of 1,530.00 feet and whose center
lies to the North, an arc distance of 372.12 feet(the
chord across the last described circular curve course
bears North 76°-09'-26" East, 371.21 feet); thence
Northeasterly, along a circular curve to the right having
a radius of 1,470.00 feet and whose center lies to the
South, an arc distance of 227.59 feet (the chord across
the last described circular curve course bears North
73°-37'-29" East, 227.36 feet); thence Northeasterly,
along a circular curve to the left having a radius of
530.00 feet and whose center lies to the North, an arc
distance of 156.42 feet (the chord across the last
described circular curve course bears North 69°-36'-19"
East, 155.85 feet); thence South 11°-49'-08" East, 643.18
feet to its intersection with said North Right-of-Way line
for U.S. Route 20; thence South 80°-25'-35" West, along
said North Right-of-Way line, 190.29 feet; thence North
85°-32'-15" West, along said North Right-of-Way line,
103.08 feet; thence South 80°-25'-35" West, along said
North Right-of-Way line, 483.92 feet to the point of

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beginning. Subject to the rights of the public and the
State of Illinois in and to those portions thereof taken,
used or dedicated for public road purposes. Situated in
the City of Rockford, the County of Winnebago and the
State of Illinois.
Parcel 5:
Lot 1 in Washington Commons Assessment Plat of Part of the
South 1/2 of Section 6, Township 38 North, Range 10, East
of the Third Principal, Meridian, according to the plat
thereof recorded October 21, 1996 as Document R96-172065,
in DuPage County, Illinois.
Parcel 6:
That part of Lots A and B of the C. M. Cheatham
subdivision, a Resubdivision of part of assessor's Lot 58
in Section 12, Township 40 North, Range 4, East of the
Third Principal Meridian, DeKalb County, Illinois,
described as follows: Commencing at the Southeast corner
of said Lot "A" (said corner being a point on the
Southeasterly line of said subdivision, said line being
labeled on the plat of said subdivision, the centerline of
Sycamore Road before relocation); Thence Northwesterly
along the South line of said Lot "A" 293.0 feet for a point
of beginning; thence Northwesterly along said south line,
253.54 feet to a point 60.36 feet Southeasterly of, as
measured along said South line, the most northerly corner
of said Lot "B"; thence westerly 53.38 feet to a point on

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the west line of said Lot "B" that is 17.71 feet Southerly
of, as measured along said west line, the most Northerly
corner of said Lot B; thence Northeasterly along said west
line, 17.71 feet to the Southwest corner of said Lot "A";
thence Northeasterly along the west line of said Lot "A",
151.2 feet to the Northwest corner of said Lot "A"; thence
Southeasterly along the north line of said Lot "A", 414.9
feet to an angle point in said North line; thence
Southeasterly along said North line, 299.3 feet to said
Southeasterly line of said subdivision; thence
Southwesterly along said Southeasterly line, 15.4 feet;
thence Northwesterly parallel with said North line, 290.0
feet; thence Southwesterly, 252.85 feet to the point of
beginning.
Parcel 7:
Lot 10 and the East Half of Lot 9 in Woodlawn Acres, a
subdivision of a part of the Southeast Quarter of Section
14,Township 40 North, Range 4 East of the Third Principal
Meridian, according to the plat thereof recorded June
28th, 1948, as Document No. 213915, in Plat Book "G", Page
140, in DeKalb County, Illinois.
Parcel 8:
That part of the vacated public alley which lies
Northeasterly of the Southwesterly line of Lot 11 of said
Woodlawn Acres extended Northwesterly to the Southeasterly
line of Lot 9.

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Parcel 9:
Lot 11 in Woodlawn Acres, a subdivision of a part of the
Southeast Quarter of Section 14, Township 40 North, Range
4 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the
plat thereof recorded June 28th, 1948, as Document No.
213915, in Plat Book "G", Page 140, in DeKalb County,
Illinois.
Parcel 10:
That Part Of Lot 1002 Of The Anaconda Wire And Cable
Company Resubdivision Of part of Sections 29 And 32,
Township 41 North, Range 5, East of the Third Principal
Meridian, DeKalb County, Illinois, Described as follows:
Commencing at the Southeast Corner of said Lot 1002;
Thence Northerly along the Easterly Line of said Lot,
728.49 Feet for a point of beginning; Thence continuing
Northerly along said Easterly Line, 180.00 Feet; Thence
Westerly at an angle of 93 Degrees 24 Minutes 33 Seconds
measured clockwise from said West line, 1,596.83 Feet to a
point on the West line of said Section 29 that is 863.41
Feet Northerly of, as measured along said West Line, the
Southwest Corner of said Section 29; Thence Southerly at
an angle Of 79 Degrees 54 Minutes 40 Seconds measured
clockwise from the last described course along said West
line, 365.65 Feet; Thence Southeasterly at an angle of 100
Degrees 05 Minutes 20 Seconds measured clockwise from said
West line, 1,080.00 Feet; Thence Northeasterly at Right

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Angles to the last described course, 150.00 Feet; Thence
Southeasterly at an angle of 93 Degrees 44 Minutes 48
Seconds measured counterclockwise from the last described
course, 463.97 Feet to the point of beginning, all in
Sycamore Township, DeKalb County, Illinois.
(a) Acquire any interests in land, buildings, or
facilities by purchase, including installments payable
over a period allowed by law, by lease over a term of such
duration as the Board of Trustees shall determine, or by
exercise of the power of eminent domain;
(b) Sublease or contract to purchase through
installments all or any portion of buildings or facilities
for such duration and on such terms as the Board of
Trustees shall determine, including a term that exceeds 5
years, provided that each such lease or purchase contract
shall be and shall recite that it is subject to
termination and cancellation in any year for which the
General Assembly fails to make an appropriation to pay the
rent or purchase installments payable under the terms of
such lease or purchase contracts; and
(c) Sell property without compliance with the State
Property Control Act and retain proceeds in the University
treasury in a special, separate development fund account
which the Auditor General shall examine to assure
compliance with this Act.
Any buildings or facilities to be developed on the land

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shall be buildings or facilities that, in the determination of
the Board of Trustees, in whole or in part: (i) are for use by
the University; or (ii) otherwise advance the interests of the
University, including, by way of example, residential,
recreational, educational, and athletic facilities for
University staff and students and commercial facilities which
provide services needed by the University community. Revenues
from the development fund account may be withdrawn by the
University for the purpose of demolition and the processes
associated with demolition; repairs to existing campus
facilities and infrastructure, and professional services
associated with planning and design. Moneys from the
development fund account used for any other purpose must be
deposited into and appropriated from the General Revenue Fund.
Buildings or facilities leased to an entity or person other
than the University shall not be subject to any limitations
applicable to a State-supported college or university under
any law. All development on the land and all the use of any
buildings or facilities shall be subject to the control and
approval of the Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois
University.
(14) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time in
anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the State of
Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the University,
also known as anticipated moneys. The borrowing limit shall be
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vouchers submitted and payable to the University for fiscal
year 2010 expenses, but unpaid by the State Comptroller's
office. Prior to borrowing any funds, the University shall
request from the Comptroller's office a verification of the
borrowing limit and shall include the estimated date on which
such borrowing shall occur. The borrowing limit cap shall be
verified by the State Comptroller's office not prior to 45
days before any estimated date for executing any promissory
note or line of credit established under this item (14). The
principal amount borrowed under a promissory note or line of
credit shall not exceed 75% of the borrowing limit. Within 15
days after borrowing funds under any promissory note or line
of credit established under this item (14), the University
shall submit to the Governor's Office of Management and
Budget, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, the President
of the Senate, and the Minority Leader of the Senate an
Emergency Short Term Cash Management Plan. The Emergency Short
Term Cash Management Plan shall outline the amount borrowed,
the terms for repayment, the amount of outstanding State
vouchers as verified by the State Comptroller's office, and
the University's plan for expenditure of any borrowed funds,
including, but not limited to, a detailed plan to meet payroll
obligations for all collective bargaining employees, civil
service employees, and academic, research, and health care
personnel. The establishment of any promissory note or line of

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credit established under this item (14) must be finalized
within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 96th General Assembly. The borrowed moneys shall be
applied to the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses
lawfully authorized in the University's State appropriation
and unpaid by the State Comptroller. Any line of credit
established under this item (14) shall be paid in full one year
after creation or within 10 days after the date the University
receives reimbursement from the State for all submitted fiscal
year 2010 vouchers, whichever is earlier. Any promissory note
established under this item (14) shall be repaid within one
year after issuance of the note. The Chairman, Comptroller, or
Treasurer of the Board shall execute a promissory note or
similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness incurred
by the borrowing. In connection with a borrowing, the Board
may establish a line of credit with a financial institution,
investment bank, or broker/dealer. The obligation to make the
payments due under any promissory note or line of credit
established under this item (14) shall be a lawful obligation
of the University payable from the anticipated moneys. Any
borrowing under this item (14) shall not constitute a debt,
legal or moral, of the State and shall not be enforceable
against the State. The promissory note or line of credit shall
be authorized by a resolution passed by the Board and shall be
valid whether or not a budgeted item with respect to that
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adopted by the Board. The resolution shall set forth facts
demonstrating the need for the borrowing, state an amount that
the amount to be borrowed will not exceed, and establish a
maximum interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
authorized by the Bond Authorization Act or 9%, whichever is
less. The resolution may direct the Comptroller or Treasurer
of the Board to make arrangements to set apart and hold the
portion of the anticipated moneys, as received, that shall be
used to repay the borrowing, subject to any prior pledges or
restrictions with respect to the anticipated moneys. The
resolution may also authorize the Treasurer of the Board to
make partial repayments of the borrowing as the anticipated
moneys become available and may contain any other terms,
restrictions, or limitations not inconsistent with the powers
of the Board.
For the purposes of this item (14), "financial
institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking
Act, any savings and loan association subject to the Illinois
Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and any federally chartered
commercial bank or savings and loan association or
government-sponsored enterprise organized and operated in this
State pursuant to the laws of the United States.
(Source: P.A. 101-665, eff. 4-2-21.)
Section 45. The Western Illinois University Law is amended
by changing Section 35-45 as follows:

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(110 ILCS 690/35-45)
Sec. 35-45. Powers and duties. The Board also shall have
power and it shall be its duty:
(1) To make rules, regulations and bylaws, not
inconsistent with law, for the government and management of
Western Illinois University and its branches;
(2) To employ, and, for good cause, to remove a President
of Western Illinois University, and all necessary deans,
professors, associate professors, assistant professors,
instructors, other educational and administrative assistants,
and all other necessary employees, and to prescribe their
duties and contract with them upon matters relating to tenure,
salaries and retirement benefits in accordance with the State
Universities Civil Service Act. Whenever the Board establishes
a search committee to fill the position of President of
Western Illinois University, there shall be minority
representation, including women, on that search committee. The
Board shall, upon the written request of an employee of
Western Illinois University, withhold from the compensation of
that employee any dues, payments or contributions payable by
such employee to any labor organization as defined in the
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Under such
arrangement, an amount shall be withheld from each regular
payroll period which is equal to the pro rata share of the
annual dues plus any payments or contributions, and the Board

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shall transmit such withholdings to the specified labor
organization within 10 working days from the time of the
withholding;
(3) To prescribe the courses of study to be followed, and
textbooks and apparatus to be used at Western Illinois
University;
(4) To issue upon the recommendation of the faculty,
diplomas to such persons as have satisfactorily completed the
required studies of Western Illinois University, and confer
such professional and literary degrees as are usually
conferred by other institutions of like character for similar
or equivalent courses of study, or such as the Board may deem
appropriate;
(5) To examine into the conditions, management, and
administration of Western Illinois University, to provide the
requisite buildings, apparatus, equipment and auxiliary
enterprises, and to fix and collect matriculation fees;
tuition fees; fees for student activities; fees for student
facilities such as student union buildings or field houses or
stadia or other recreational facilities; student welfare fees;
laboratory fees; and similar fees for supplies and materials.
The expense of the building, improving, repairing and
supplying fuel and furniture and the necessary appliances and
apparatus for conducting Western Illinois University, the
reimbursed expenses of members of the Board, and the salaries
or compensation of the President, assistants, agents and other

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employees of Western Illinois University, shall be a charge
upon the State Treasury. All other expenses shall be
chargeable against students, and the Board shall regulate the
charges accordingly;
(6) To succeed to and to administer all trusts, trust
property, and gifts now or hereafter belonging or pertaining
to Western Illinois University;
(7) To accept endowments of professorships or departments
in Western Illinois University from any person who may proffer
them and, at regular meetings, to prescribe rules and
regulations in relation to endowments and declare on what
general principles they may be accepted;
(8) To enter into contracts with the Federal government
for providing courses of instruction and other services at
Western Illinois University for persons serving in or with the
military or naval forces of the United States, and to provide
such courses of instruction and other services;
(9) To contract with respect to the Cooperative Computer
Center to obtain services related to electronic data
processing;
(10) To provide for the receipt and expenditures of
Federal funds paid to Western Illinois University by the
Federal government for instruction and other services for
persons serving in or with the military or naval forces of the
United States, and to provide for audits of such funds;
(11) To appoint, subject to the applicable civil service

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law, persons to be members of the Western Illinois University
Police Department. Members of the Police Department shall be
conservators of the peace and as such have all powers
possessed by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, including the
power to make arrests on view or warrants of violations of
State statutes, University rules and regulations and city or
county ordinances, except that they may exercise such powers
only within counties wherein Western Illinois University and
any of its branches or properties are located when such is
required for the protection of University properties and
interests, and its students and personnel, and otherwise,
within such counties, when requested by appropriate State or
local law enforcement officials. However, such officers shall
have no power to serve and execute civil processes. The chief
of police of the Police Department has the final decision on
all law enforcement decisions. The President and chancellors
of the University are prohibited from being involved in law
enforcement decisions.
The Board must authorize to each member of the Western
Illinois University Police Department and to any other
employee of Western Illinois University exercising the powers
of a peace officer a distinct badge that, on its face, (i)
clearly states that the badge is authorized by Western
Illinois University and (ii) contains a unique identifying
number. No other badge shall be authorized by Western Illinois
University;

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(12) The Board may, directly or in cooperation with other
institutions of higher education, acquire by purchase or lease
or otherwise, and construct, enlarge, improve, equip,
complete, operate, control and manage research and high
technology parks, together with the necessary lands,
buildings, facilities, equipment, and personal property
therefor, to encourage and facilitate (i) the location and
development of business and industry in the State of Illinois,
and (ii) the increased application and development of
technology, and (iii) the improvement and development of the
State's economy. The Board may lease to nonprofit corporations
all or any part of the land, buildings, facilities, equipment
or other property included in a research and high technology
park upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem
advisable and enter into any contract or agreement with such
nonprofit corporations as may be necessary or suitable for the
construction, financing, operation and maintenance and
management of any such park; and may lease to any person, firm,
partnership or corporation, either public or private, any part
or all of the land, building, facilities, equipment or other
property of such park for such purposes and upon such rentals,
terms and conditions as the Board may deem advisable; and may
finance all or part of the cost of any such park, including the
purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
remodeling, addition to, and extension and maintenance of all
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furnishings, by legislative appropriations, government grants,
contracts, private gifts, loans, receipts from the operation
of such high technology park, rentals and similar receipts;
and may make its other facilities and services available to
tenants or other occupants of any such park at rates which are
reasonable and appropriate;
(13) To borrow money, as necessary, from time to time in
anticipation of receiving tuition, payments from the State of
Illinois, or other revenues or receipts of the University,
also known as anticipated moneys. The borrowing limit shall be
capped at 100% of the total amount of payroll and other expense
vouchers submitted and payable to the University for fiscal
year 2010 expenses, but unpaid by the State Comptroller's
office. Prior to borrowing any funds, the University shall
request from the Comptroller's office a verification of the
borrowing limit and shall include the estimated date on which
such borrowing shall occur. The borrowing limit cap shall be
verified by the State Comptroller's office not prior to 45
days before any estimated date for executing any promissory
note or line of credit established under this item (13). The
principal amount borrowed under a promissory note or line of
credit shall not exceed 75% of the borrowing limit. Within 15
days after borrowing funds under any promissory note or line
of credit established under this item (13), the University
shall submit to the Governor's Office of Management and
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Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, the President
of the Senate, and the Minority Leader of the Senate an
Emergency Short Term Cash Management Plan. The Emergency Short
Term Cash Management Plan shall outline the amount borrowed,
the terms for repayment, the amount of outstanding State
vouchers as verified by the State Comptroller's office, and
the University's plan for expenditure of any borrowed funds,
including, but not limited to, a detailed plan to meet payroll
obligations to include collective bargaining employees, civil
service employees, and academic, research, and health care
personnel. The establishment of any promissory note or line of
credit established under this item (13) must be finalized
within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 96th General Assembly. The borrowed moneys shall be
applied to the purposes of paying salaries and other expenses
lawfully authorized in the University's State appropriation
and unpaid by the State Comptroller. Any line of credit
established under this item (13) shall be paid in full one year
after creation or within 10 days after the date the University
receives reimbursement from the State for all submitted fiscal
year 2010 vouchers, whichever is earlier. Any promissory note
established under this item (13) shall be repaid within one
year after issuance of the note. The Chairman, Comptroller, or
Treasurer of the Board shall execute a promissory note or
similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness incurred
by the borrowing. In connection with a borrowing, the Board

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may establish a line of credit with a financial institution,
investment bank, or broker/dealer. The obligation to make the
payments due under any promissory note or line of credit
established under this item (13) shall be a lawful obligation
of the University payable from the anticipated moneys. Any
borrowing under this item (13) shall not constitute a debt,
legal or moral, of the State and shall not be enforceable
against the State. The promissory note or line of credit shall
be authorized by a resolution passed by the Board and shall be
valid whether or not a budgeted item with respect to that
resolution is included in any annual or supplemental budget
adopted by the Board. The resolution shall set forth facts
demonstrating the need for the borrowing, state an amount that
the amount to be borrowed will not exceed, and establish a
maximum interest rate limit not to exceed the maximum rate
authorized by the Bond Authorization Act or 9%, whichever is
less. The resolution may direct the Comptroller or Treasurer
of the Board to make arrangements to set apart and hold the
portion of the anticipated moneys, as received, that shall be
used to repay the borrowing, subject to any prior pledges or
restrictions with respect to the anticipated moneys. The
resolution may also authorize the Treasurer of the Board to
make partial repayments of the borrowing as the anticipated
moneys become available and may contain any other terms,
restrictions, or limitations not inconsistent with the powers
of the Board.

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For the purposes of this item (13), "financial
institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking
Act, any savings and loan association subject to the Illinois
Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and any federally chartered
commercial bank or savings and loan association or
government-sponsored enterprise organized and operated in this
State pursuant to the laws of the United States.
(14) To assist in the provision of lands, buildings, and
facilities that are supportive of University purposes and
suitable and appropriate for the conduct and operation of the
University's education programs, the Board may exercise the
following powers with regard to that part of the Southeast
Quarter of Section 11, Township 17 North, Range 1 West of the
4th Principal Meridian, the boundary which is described as
follows:
From the Northeast corner of Lot 33 of Homewood Terrace
Second Addition to the City of Moline in Rock Island
County, Illinois, said corner being the point of beginning
and being 1272.48 feet South and 526.23 feet East of the
center of Section 11; proceed thence South 00 deg.-00'-00"
West 179.04 feet along the East line of said Homewood
Terrace Second Addition; thence South 34 deg.-30'-00" West
l35.00 feet along the East line of said Homewood Terrace
Second Addition; thence South 34 deg.-22'-33" East 353.34
feet to the East line of the First Section of Homewood 5th
Addition to the City of Moline in Rock Island County,

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Illinois; thence South 21 deg.-14'-01" East 448.00 feet
along the East line of said First Section of Homewood 5th
Addition to the North Right-of-Way line of Coaltown Road,
Moline; thence North 69 deg.-30'-59" East 13.39 feet along
the North Right-of-Way of Coaltown Road; thence
Northeasterly 302.69 feet along the North Right-of-Way of
Coaltown Road around a circular curve to the Right, said
curve having an initial tangent bearing of North 69
deg.-30'-59" East and a radius of 1950.08 feet; thence
North 49 deg.-29'-56" East 99.18 feet along the North
Right-of-Way line of Coaltown Road, Moline, to the West
Right-of-Way line of 60th Street, Moline; thence North 09
deg.-29'-20" West 366.24 feet along the West Right-of-Way
line of 60th Street, Moline Right-of-Way monument; thence
North 10 deg.-10'-03" West 263.50 feet along the West
Right-of-Way line of 60th Street, Moline Right-of-Way
monument; thence North 01 deg.-45'-57" West 81.37 feet
along the West line of 60th Street, Moline; thence
Northwesterly 581.39 feet around a circular curve to the
right, said curve having an initial tangent bearing of
South 89 deg.-27'-55" West and a radius of 1085.00 feet to
the point of beginning; Situated in Rock Island County,
Illinois.
(A) The Board may sell, lease, or otherwise transfer
and convey all or part of the real estate described in this
item (14), together with the improvements situated

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thereon, to a bona fide purchaser for value, without
compliance with the State Property Control Act and on such
terms as the Board shall determine are in the best
interests of the University and consistent with its
objects and purposes.
(B) The Board may retain the proceeds from the sale,
lease, or other transfer of all or any part of the real
estate described in this item (14) in the University
treasury, in a special, separate development fund account
that the Auditor General shall examine to ensure the use
or deposit of those proceeds in a manner consistent with
subdivision (C) of this item (14).
(C) Revenues from the development fund account may be
withdrawn by the University for the purpose of demolition
and the processes associated with demolition; routine land
and property acquisition; streetscape work; landscape
work; lease and lease purchase arrangements and the
professional services associated with planning and
development; surface and structure parking; sidewalks,
recreational paths, and street construction; utility
infrastructure; historic preservation; and building
rehabilitation. Money from the development fund account
used for any other purpose must be deposited into and
appropriated from the General Revenue Fund. Buildings or
facilities leased to an entity or person other than the
University are not subject to any limitations applicable

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to a State-supported college or university under any law.
All development on the land and all use of any buildings or
facilities is subject to the control and approval of the
Board.
(Source: P.A. 97-333, eff. 8-12-11; 98-998, eff. 8-18-14.)
Section 50. The Public Community College Act is amended by
changing Section 3-42.1 as follows:
(110 ILCS 805/3-42.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-42.1)
Sec. 3-42.1. (a) To appoint law enforcement officer and
non-law enforcement officer members of the community college
district police department or department of public safety.
(b) Members of the community college district police
department or department of public safety who are law
enforcement officers, as defined in the Illinois Police
Training Act, shall be peace officers under the laws of this
State. As such, law enforcement officer members of these
departments shall have all of the powers of police officers in
cities and sheriffs in counties, including the power to make
arrests on view or on warrants for violations of State
statutes and to enforce county or city ordinances in all
counties that lie within the community college district, when
such is required for the protection of community college
personnel, students, property, or interests. Such officers
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chief of police of a community college district police
department or department of public safety has the final
decision on all law enforcement decisions. The president,
chancellors, or chief executive officer of a community college
district are prohibited from being involved in law enforcement
decisions.
As peace officers in this State, all laws pertaining to
hiring, training, retention, service authority, and discipline
of police officers, under State law, shall apply. Law
enforcement officer members must complete the minimum basic
training requirements of a police training school under the
Illinois Police Training Act. Law enforcement officer members
who have successfully completed an Illinois Law Enforcement
Training Standards Board certified firearms course shall be
equipped with appropriate firearms and auxiliary weapons.
(c) Non-law enforcement officer members of the community
college police, public safety, or security departments whose
job requirements include performing patrol and security type
functions shall, within 6 months after their initial hiring
date, be required to successfully complete the 20-hour basic
security training course required by (i) the Department of
Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of
Professional Regulation for Security Officers, (ii) by the
International Association of College Law Enforcement
Administrators, or (iii) campus protection officer training
program or a similar course certified and approved by the

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Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board. They shall
also be permitted to become members of an Illinois State
Training Board Mobile Training Unit and shall complete 8 hours
in continuing training, related to their specific position of
employment, each year. The board may establish reasonable
eligibility requirements for appointment and retention of
non-law enforcement officer members.
All non-law enforcement officer members authorized to
carry weapons, other than firearms, shall receive training on
the proper deployment and use of force regarding such weapons.
(Source: P.A. 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.)