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2021 SESSION
HB 2120 Higher educational institutions, public; governing boards, meetings, input, and disclosures.
Introduced by: Mark L. Keam | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Public institutions of higher education; governing boards; meetings, input, and disclosures. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to establish and maintain on the institution's website (i) a listing of all board members, including the name of the Governor who made each appointment and the date of each appointment; (ii) a listing of all committees created by the board and the membership of each committee; (iii) a schedule of all upcoming meetings of the full board and its committees and instructions for the public to access such meetings; (iv) an archive of agendas and supporting materials for each meeting of the governing board and its committees that were held; and (v) an email address or email addresses that allow board members to receive public communications pertaining to board business. The bill requires such boards to solicit the input of representatives of the institution's faculty senate or its equivalent (a) at least twice per academic year on topics of general interest to the faculty and (b) in advance of decisions to be made on the search for the institution's new chief executive officer. The bill also requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in consultation with the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council, to work with each public institution of higher education and with technology experts to develop a minimal uniform standard, to the extent practicable, for providing the public with real-time electronic access to meetings of the governing boards of public institutions of higher education.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102195D pdf | impact statement
- 02/01/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103246D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102195D
- 01/12/21 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/15/21 House: Assigned Education sub: Post-Secondary and Higher Ed
- 01/27/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/21 House: Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103246D-H1
- 02/02/21 House: Read first time
- 02/03/21 House: Read second time
- 02/03/21 House: Committee substitute agreed to 21103246D-H1
- 02/03/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2120H1
- 02/04/21 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/21 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)