(1) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996, the following items of income, except as otherwise provided in Section 6g, received by the University of Illinois for general operational and educational purposes shall be retained by the University in its own treasury and credited to an account known as the University Income Fund that it shall establish in its treasury for purposes of this paragraph: (a) tuition, laboratory and library fees, and all interest which may be earned thereon; and (b) excess income from auxiliary enterprises and activities as provided in paragraph (2) of this Section, and all other income arising out of any activity or purpose not specified in paragraph (2) upon receipt of the same and without any deduction whatever. Such items shall be deposited into a college or university bank account within the time period established for like amounts in Section 2 of the State Officers and Employees Money Disposition Act. Within 10 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996, all moneys then remaining in the University Income Fund heretofore established as a special fund in the State Treasury that were covered and paid into that fund by the University shall be repaid to the University upon the warrant of the State Comptroller, directed to the State Treasurer as an order to pay the sum required to be repaid under this paragraph and shown as due on the warrant. The University shall deposit the amount so repaid to it in a college or university bank account within the time period established for like amounts in Section 2 of the State Officers and Employees Money Disposition Act, to be credited to the University Income Fund established by the University in its own treasury for purposes of this paragraph. All moneys from time to time held in the University Income Fund in the treasury of the University shall be used by the University, pursuant to the order and direction of the Board of Trustees of the University, for the support and improvement of the University, except for amounts disbursed from that University Income Fund for refunds to students for whom duplicate payment has been made and to students who have withdrawn after registration and who are entitled to such refunds.
     (2) The following items of income shall be retained by the University in its own treasury: endowment funds, gifts, trust funds, and Federal aid; funds received in connection with contracts with governmental, public, or private agencies or persons, for research or services including funds which are paid as reimbursement to the University and funds received in connection with its operation of medical research and high technology parks; funds received in connection with the retention, receipt, assignment, license, sale or transfer of interests in, rights to, or income from discoveries, inventions, patents, or copyrightable works; funds retained by the University under the authority of Section 6g; and funds received from the operation of student or staff residence facilities, student and staff medical and health programs, Union buildings, bookstores, farms, stores, service activities, and other auxiliary enterprises or activities which are self-supporting in whole or in part; provided, that any income derived from such auxiliary enterprises or activities which is not necessary to their support, maintenance, or development shall not be applied to any general operational or educational purpose but shall be retained by the University in its own treasury and credited to the University Income Fund that it shall establish in its treasury as provided in paragraph (1) of this Section.
     Whenever such funds retained by the University in its own treasury are deposited with a bank or savings and loan association and the amount of the deposit exceeds the amount of federal deposit insurance coverage, a bond or pledged securities shall be obtained. Only the types of securities which the State Treasurer may, in his discretion, accept for amounts not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation under Section 11 of the Deposit of State Moneys Act may be accepted as pledged securities. The market value of the bond or pledged securities shall at all times be equal to or greater than the uninsured portion of the deposit.
     The Auditor General shall audit or cause to be audited the above items of income and all other income and expenditures of such institution.