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Board of Regents residency requirement fails after heated House debate
Summary
A proposed change to require at least one Board of Regents member from each county or primary service area with an institution failed in the Utah House after extended debate over regional representation, residency rules and potential politicization of governing boards.
SALT LAKE CITY — A bid to require geographic representation on Utah’s Board of Regents failed in the House after two hours of debate and close balloting.
Representative Hayes Hunter, sponsor of House Bill 69, said the measure was intended to restore what he described as the original 1969 intent that institutions have local representation on the regents. "We're only asking for 4 people out of the 16 man board to be in the rural out in the rural areas of the schools," Hunter…
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