Bill Text: MI SJRE | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Higher education: governing boards; open meetings for university boards; require. Amends sec. 4, art. VIII of the state constitution.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-07 - Referred To Committee On Oversight [SJRE Detail]

Download: Michigan-2019-SJRE-Introduced.html

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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION E

 

 

March 7, 2019, Introduced by Senators MCBROOM, MOSS, BARRETT, LUCIDO, THEIS and RUNESTAD and referred to the Committee on Oversight.

 

 

 

     A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, by amending section 4 of article VIII, to

 

update the enumeration of public universities and to require that

 

the meetings of governing boards of public universities are open to

 

the public.

 

     Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

 

state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, to update the enumeration of public

 

universities and to require that the meetings of governing boards

 

of public universities are open to the public, is proposed, agreed

 

to, and submitted to the people of the state:

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

     Sec. 4. The legislature shall appropriate moneys to maintain

the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State

 

University, Eastern Michigan University, Michigan College of

 

Science and Technology, Technological University, Central Michigan

 

University, Northern Michigan University, Western Michigan

 

University, Ferris Institute, State University, Grand Valley State

 

College, University, Saginaw Valley State University, Lake Superior

 

State University, Oakland University, by whatever names such those

 

institutions may are hereafter be known, and other institutions of

 

higher education established by law. The legislature shall be given

 

an annual accounting of all income and expenditures by each of

 

these educational institutions. Formal sessions Meetings of

 

governing boards of such these educational institutions shall be

 

open to the public, as provided by law.

 

     Resolved further, That the foregoing amendment shall be

 

submitted to the people of the state at the next general election

 

in the manner provided by law.