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Committee recommends do pass for bill requiring training for college regents and board leaders
Summary
Senate Bill 19 would require the Higher Education Department to provide 10 hours of standardized training to newly appointed university regents and community college governing-board leaders; the committee recommended do pass.
The House Education Committee recommended a "do pass" on Senate Bill 19, a measure that would require the Higher Education Department to provide 10 hours of standardized training for newly appointed university regents and community-college governing-board leaders.
Senator Jeff Steinborn, sponsor, told the committee the training would cover statutory underpinnings of higher education governance, student-success resources, ethics and transparency, open meetings requirements and fiduciary best practices. "A lot of appointed regents ... are running multi hundred million dollar institutions," he said, and the training would provide a common baseline for governance across institutions.
Committee members followed up with no public opposition noted in the transcript. The committee recorded a do-pass recommendation; no roll-call vote was recorded in the transcript.
Votes at a glance: Senate Bill 19 ' Motion: do pass; Outcome: do pass (voice vote; no roll-call recorded).
