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2016 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 168
BY SENATOR APPEL
POSTSECONDARY ED. Constitutional amendment to provide relative to the authority and
powers of the Board of Regents and the public postsecondary management boards. (2/3 -
CA13sl(A))
1 A JOINT RESOLUTION
2 Proposing to amend Article VIII, Section 5(E) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to
3 the management of public postsecondary education; to provide relative to the
4 respective authority and powers of the Board of Regents and the public
5 postsecondary education management boards; and to specify an election for
6 submission of the proposition to electors and provide a ballot proposition.
7 Section 1. Be it resolved by the Legislature of Louisiana, two-thirds of the members
8 elected to each house concurring, that there shall be submitted to the electors of the state, for
9 their approval or rejection in the manner provided by law, a proposal to amend Article VIII,
10 Section 5(E) of the Constitution of Louisiana, to read as follows:
11 ยง5. Board of Regents
12 Section 5.
13 * * *
14 (E) Other Powers Not Vested; Management Boards. Powers of
15 management over public institutions of postsecondary education not specifically
16 vested by this Section in Subject to the powers of the Board of Regents are reserved
17 to as provided by this Section and as otherwise provided by law and to policies
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1 adopted by the board pursuant thereto, the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana
2 State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Board of Supervisors
3 of Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Board of
4 Trustees for State Colleges and Universities Supervisors for the University of
5 Louisiana System, the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges,
6 and any other such board created pursuant to this Article, as to are responsible for
7 the daily operations of the institutions under the control of each.
8 Section 2. Be it further resolved that this proposed amendment shall be submitted
9 to the electors of the state of Louisiana at the statewide election to be held on November 8,
10 2016.
11 Section 3. Be it further resolved that on the official ballot to be used at said election
12 there shall be printed a proposition, upon which the electors of the state shall be permitted
13 to vote YES or NO, to amend the Constitution of Louisiana, which proposition shall read as
14 follows:
15 Do you support an amendment to provide that the authority of the higher
16 education management boards is subject to the powers and policies of the
17 Board of Regents?
18 (Amends Article VIII, Section 5(E))
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Cheryl Serrett.
DIGEST
SB 168 Original 2016 Regular Session Appel
Present constitution establishes the Board of Regents to plan, coordinate, and have budgetary
responsibility for all public postsecondary education. Specifies the board's powers, duties,
and responsibilities.
Present constitution creates the Board of Supervisors for the University of La. System, the
Board of Supervisors of LSU and Agricultural and Mechanical College, and the Board of
Supervisors of SU and Agricultural and Mechanical College all having supervision and
management of certain "four-year" colleges and universities and, in the case of the LSU and
SU boards, statewide agricultural programs and other programs administered through their
systems. Present constitution creates and provides for the Board of Supervisors of
Community and Technical Colleges, which is the management board for "two-year"
colleges. Proposed constitutional amendment retains present constitution.
Present constitution provides that powers of management over public institutions of
postsecondary education not specifically vested by present constitution in the Board of
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Regents are reserved to the management boards. Proposed constitutional amendment
provides instead that the management boards are responsible for daily operations of the
institutions and that the exercise of such responsibility is subject to powers and policies of
the Board of Regents.
Specifies submission of the amendment to the voters at the statewide election to be held on
November 8, 2016.
(Amends Const. Art. VIII, Sec. 5(E))
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