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2021 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 20
BY REPRESENTATIVES HUGHES, ADAMS, BRASS, CARPENTER, GARY CARTER,
ROBBY CARTER, WILFORD CARTER, COX, DUPLESSIS, FREEMAN,
FREIBERG, GREEN, HILFERTY, JAMES, JEFFERSON, JENKINS, TRAVIS
JOHNSON, JONES, LANDRY, LARVADAIN, LYONS, MARCELLE, DUSTIN
MILLER, MOORE, NEWELL, CHARLES OWEN, PHELPS, PIERRE, SELDERS,
WHITE, AND WILLARD AND SENATORS ALLAIN, BARROW, BERNARD,
BOUDREAUX, BOUIE, FIELDS, HARRIS, JACKSON, PETERSON, PRICE,
AND TALBOT
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To urge and request Governor John Bel Edwards to appoint additional women to the Board
of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical
College, the Board of Supervisors of Southern University and Agricultural and
Mechanical College, the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana
System, the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges, and the
Board of Regents with the goal that women will comprise at least fifty percent of the
membership of each board by July 1, 2023.
WHEREAS, the Constitution of Louisiana creates and provides for four public
postsecondary education management boards, the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State
University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (the LSU board), the Board of
Supervisors of Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (the SU
board), the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System (the UL board), and
the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges (the LCTCS board), to
supervise and manage the institutions and programs of their respective systems; and
WHEREAS, the constitution also creates and provides for the Board of Regents to
plan, coordinate, and have budgetary responsibility for public postsecondary education; and
WHEREAS, the constitution provides for each of these five boards to have fifteen
members who are appointed by the governor, two from each congressional district and the
remaining members from the state at large, serving overlapping terms of six years; and
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WHEREAS, as of April 7, 2021, of the fifteen members of each board, not counting
student members, the LSU board has three women (20% of board membership); the SU
board has three women (20% of board membership); the UL board has four women (26.67%
of board membership); the LCTCS board has four women (26.67% of board membership);
and the Board of Regents has four women (26.67% of board membership); and
WHEREAS, according to the most recent data from the United States Census
Bureau, women comprise approximately fifty-one percent of the population in the state of
Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, the terms of a number of members of each board will expire between
July 1, 2021, and July 1, 2023, which will create numerous opportunities over the next two
years for the governor to appoint additional women to each board so that the boards more
accurately reflect the population of the state.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
urge and request Governor John Bel Edwards to appoint additional women to the Board of
Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, the
Board of Supervisors of Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, the
Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System, the Board of Supervisors of
Community and Technical Colleges, and the Board of Regents with the goal that women will
comprise at least fifty percent of the membership of each board by July 1, 2023.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to Governor John Bel Edwards.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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