HLS 21RS-1037 ENGROSSED
2021 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 20
BY REPRESENTATIVES HUGHES, BRASS, FREEMAN, FREIBERG, HILFERTY,
JEFFERSON, CHARLES OWEN, AND PHELPS AND SENATOR BARROW
HIGHER EDUCATION: Requests that the governor appoint additional women to public
postsecondary education boards so that women will comprise at least fifty percent
of each board's membership by July 1, 2023
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2To urge and request Governor John Bel Edwards to appoint additional women to the Board
3 of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical
4 College, the Board of Supervisors of Southern University and Agricultural and
5 Mechanical College, the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana
6 System, the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges, and the
7 Board of Regents with the goal that women will comprise at least fifty percent of the
8 membership of each board by July 1, 2023.
9 WHEREAS, the Constitution of Louisiana creates and provides for four public
10postsecondary education management boards, the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State
11University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (the LSU board), the Board of
12Supervisors of Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (the SU
13board), the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System (the UL board), and
14the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges (the LCTCS board), to
15supervise and manage the institutions and programs of their respective systems; and
16 WHEREAS, the constitution also creates and provides for the Board of Regents to
17plan, coordinate, and have budgetary responsibility for public postsecondary education; and
18 WHEREAS, the constitution provides for each of these five boards to have fifteen
19members who are appointed by the governor, two from each congressional district and the
20remaining members from the state at large, serving overlapping terms of six years; and
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1 WHEREAS, as of April 7, 2021, of the fifteen members of each board, not counting
2student members, the LSU board has three women (20% of board membership); the SU
3board has three women (20% of board membership); the UL board has four women (26.67%
4of board membership); the LCTCS board has four women (26.67% of board membership);
5and the Board of Regents has four women (26.67% of board membership); and
6 WHEREAS, according to the most recent data from the United States Census
7Bureau, women comprise approximately fifty-one percent of the population in the state of
8Louisiana; and
9 WHEREAS, the terms of a number of members of each board will expire between
10July 1, 2021, and July 1, 2023, which will create numerous opportunities over the next two
11years for the governor to appoint additional women to each board so that the boards more
12accurately reflect the population of the state.
13 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
14urge and request Governor John Bel Edwards to appoint additional women to the Board of
15Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, the
16Board of Supervisors of Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, the
17Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System, the Board of Supervisors of
18Community and Technical Colleges, and the Board of Regents with the goal that women will
19comprise at least fifty percent of the membership of each board by July 1, 2023.
20 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
21to Governor John Bel Edwards.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HCR 20 Engrossed 2021 Regular Session Hughes
Requests that the governor appoint additional women to Bd. of Regents and each of the four
public postsecondary education management boards with the goal that women will comprise
at least 50% of each board's membership by July 1, 2023.
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