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HB1940  Faculty representatives to the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, (Landes)
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Summary as Introduced:

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Faculty representatives to the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and boards of visitors; student representatives to boards of visitors. Requires the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and boards of visitors of any four-year public institution of higher education to appoint one or more nonvoting, advisory faculty representatives to their respective boards. Current law permits, but does not require, such appointments. The bill removes the option for local community college boards and boards of visitors to choose faculty representatives from individuals elected by the institution's faculty. The bill further requires boards of visitors to choose nonvoting, advisory student representatives from individuals elected by the institution's student government.

 

Bill Status 1: Bill Status 2: Next Meeting: (date and time)
Passed by Indefinitely
Committee/Subcommitte: S-Education and Health

 

Full Text of Bill:
13100828D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1940
Offered January 9, 2013
Prefiled January 9, 2013
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 23-9.2:4.1 and 23-9.2:5 of the Code of Virginia, relating to faculty representatives to the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and boards of visitors and student representatives to boards of visitors.
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Patrons-- Landes and Massie; Senator: Deeds
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Referred to Committee on Education
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That §§ 23-9.2:4.1 and 23-9.2:5 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 23-9.2:4.1. Faculty representatives to the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and boards of visitors.

A. The State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and the boards of visitors of any four-year state public institution of higher education may shall appoint one or more nonvoting, advisory faculty representatives to their respective boards. In the case of local community college boards and boards of visitors, the representatives appointed by the boards shall be chosen from individuals elected by the faculty or the institution's faculty senate or other equivalent group of the relevant institution. In the case of the State Board for Community Colleges, representatives appointed by the Board shall be chosen from individuals elected by the Chancellor's Faculty Advisory Committee. Such representatives shall be appointed to serve terms of not less than one 12-month period, which shall be coterminous with the institution's fiscal year, or for such terms as may be mutually agreed to by the State Board for Community Colleges and the Chancellor's Faculty Advisory Committee, or by the local community college board or the board of visitors, as the case may be, and the institution's faculty senate or other equivalent group.

B. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, or any boards of visitors from excluding such representatives from discussions of faculty grievances, faculty or staff disciplinary matters, or salaries, or other matters, at the discretion of the relevant board.

§ 23-9.2:5. Student representatives to boards of visitors.

A. The board of visitors of any four-year state public institution of higher education shall appoint one or more students as nonvoting, advisory representatives. Such representatives shall be appointed under such circumstances chosen from individuals elected by the institution's student government or other equivalent group of the relevant institution and serve for such terms as the board of visitors of the institution shall prescribe.

B. Nothing in this section shall prohibit any board of visitors from excluding such representatives from discussions of faculty grievances, faculty or staff disciplinary matters or salaries, or other matters, at the discretion of the board.

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