BILL NUMBER: AB 2163	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Low

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2016

   An act to add Section 89500.3 to the Education Code, relating to
the California State University.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2163, as introduced, Low. California State University:
appointment of campus presidents.
   Existing law establishes the California State University, under
the administration of the Trustees of the California State
University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education
in this state. The California State University comprises 23
institutions of higher education, each of which is headed by a
president who is appointed by the trustees.
   This bill would prohibit the trustees from appointing a person as
president of a campus of the California State University unless that
person has participated in at least one public forum on that campus
after being formally and publicly designated by the trustees as a
finalist for appointment as president of that campus.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 89500.3 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   89500.3.  In exercising its authority to appoint campus
presidents, the trustees shall not appoint a person as president of a
campus of the California State University unless that person has
participated in at least one public forum on that campus after being
formally and publicly designated by the trustees as a finalist for
appointment as president of that campus.