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Senator proposes 75% in-person attendance rule, fines for higher-education governing-board members
Summary
Senator Kolkhorst, sponsor of Senate Bill 724, told the Senate Committee on Education (meeting date not specified) that the bill would require each member of a governing board of an institution of higher education to attend at least 75% of that board's meetings in person.
Senator Kolkhorst, sponsor of Senate Bill 724, told the Senate Committee on Education (meeting date not specified) that the bill would require each member of a governing board of an institution of higher education to attend at least 75% of that board's meetings in person.
Kolkhorst said the proposal responds to what she described as a “post COVID era” problem in which governing boards sometimes lack quorum because members attend remotely. “Being in the present, you learn so…
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