Illinois SB 1377: HIGHER ED-POLICE CHIEF POWERS

Status: Referred to Assignments (as of 2025-01-29)

State: Illinois · Session: 104th · Bill: SB 1377

Sponsors: Chapin Rose

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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.

LRB104 08987 LNS 19043 b

A BILL FOR

SB1377LRB104 08987 LNS 19043 b

1 AN ACT concerning education.

2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 

3represented in the General Assembly:

4 Section 5. The University of Illinois Act is amended by 

5changing Section 7 as follows:

6 (110 ILCS 305/7) (from Ch. 144, par. 28)

7 Sec. 7. Powers of trustees. 

8 (a) The trustees shall have power to provide for the 

9requisite buildings, apparatus, and conveniences; to fix the 

10rates for tuition; to appoint such professors and instructors, 

11and to establish and provide for the management of such model 

12farms, model art, and other departments and professorships, as 

13may be required to teach, in the most thorough manner, such 

14branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the 

15mechan

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