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Committee approves do-pass for bill requiring training for newly appointed college regents and governing-board members
Summary
Senate Bill 19 would require the Higher Education Department to provide at least 10 hours of standardized training to newly appointed university regents and community college governing-board leaders; the House Education Committee gave the bill a do-pass recommendation.
Senator Daniel Steinborn told the House Education Committee that Senate Bill 19 would require the Higher Education Department to provide ten hours of standardized training for newly appointed university regents and community college governing-board leaders.
"These boards run multi-$100 million institutions," Senator Steinborn said, arguing that standardized training on statutory underpinnings, ethics, open meetings, fiduciary oversight and student-success resources would improve governance.
Senator Steinborn and witnesses said standardized orientation could reduce governance errors, improve transparency and create a common baseline of knowledge for board members across institutions. The bill is intended to complement other proposals on board qualifications and to encourage best practices in areas such as ethics and open-meetings law.
The committee recorded a do-pass recommendation on Senate Bill 19 during the meeting; the transcript does not include a roll-call tally of committee votes.
