Bill Text: VA HB1303 | 2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Higher educational institutions; educational programs for members of board of visitors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-03-25 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) [HB1303 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2016-HB1303-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That §23-2.06 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows: §23-2.06. Members of governing boards; removal; terms. A. If any member of the board of visitors of a four-year
public institution of higher education or the State Board for Community
Colleges fails to attend (i) the meetings of the board for one year without
sufficient cause, as determined by a majority vote of the board, or (ii) the
educational programs required by §23-9.14:1 in his first two years of
membership without sufficient cause, as determined by a majority vote of the
board, the remaining members of the board shall record such failure in the
minutes at its next meeting and notify the Governor, and the office of such
member shall be vacated. B. The board of visitors of each four-year public institution of higher education and the State Board for Community Colleges shall adopt in its bylaws policies (i) for removing members pursuant to subsection A and (ii) referencing the Governor's power to remove members described in §2.2-108. C. No person who has served two consecutive four-year terms on the board of visitors of a four-year public institution of higher education or the State Board for Community Colleges shall be eligible to serve on the same board until at least four years have passed since the end of his second consecutive four-year term. 2. That notwithstanding the provisions of the first enactment of this act, any member of the board of visitors of a four-year public institution of higher education or the State Board for Community Colleges who was appointed to such board prior to July 1, 2013, and fails to attend the educational programs required by §23-9.14:1 of the Code of Virginia during his first four-year term shall attend such educational programs during the first two years of his subsequent term on such board. |