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                                                                  AB 2324
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          Date of Hearing:   April 9, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

               AB 2324 (Williams) - As Introduced:  February 21, 2014 

          Policy Committee:                              Higher  
          EducationVote:13-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:               

           SUMMARY  

          This bill stipulates that the two-year term of the faculty  
          member of the California State University (CSU) Board of  
          Trustees (BOT) may continue after expiration for one additional  
          two-year term if the Governor has not appointed a successor.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible fiscal impact.

           COMMENTS  

           Purpose  . The Faculty Trustee to the CSU BOT is appointed by the  
          Governor, from a list of nominees proposed by the Statewide  
          Academic Senate, and serves a two-year term which commences on  
          July 1 and expires on June 30 two years thereafter. According to  
          the author, in recent years there have been lengthy intervals  
          during which no faculty representative has been appointed to the  
          BOT. The longest period was from 2009 to 2011, which resulted in  
          the Faculty Trustee position being vacant for an entire two-year  
          term. In the summer and fall of 2013, the board met twice while  
          lacking a Faculty Trustee.  The author believes that the absence  
          of faculty representation is detrimental to the major, long-term  
          decisions being made by the board. This bill, sponsored by CSU,  
          will ensure that faculty are represented by automatically  
          allowing the Faculty Trustee to serve an additional two-year  
          term in the absence of a timely appointment by the Governor.

           Analysis Prepared by :    Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081 










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