This bill addresses roles and responsibilities of a higher education institution's board of trustees and president. This bill: - consolidates and reorganizes general duties of boards of trustees for institutions of higher education; - establishes certain aspects of the relationship between an institution's board of trustees and the institution's president, including:organizational governance;roles and responsibilities in the budgeting process;faculty and personnel issues; andpresidential performance evaluation; - establishes the authority of the board of trustees over internal audits of an institution; - enacts provisions regarding a president's authority in relation to administrative roles, cabinet members, and the institution's general counsel; - enacts provisions regarding the duties of an institution's legal counsel, including requiring the Board of Higher Education to make rules regarding the scope of the role of an institution's legal counsel; - amends the membership of a technical college board of trustees with a service region containing a certain number of school districts; - requires reporting of certain institutional compensation information; and - makes technical and conforming changes.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 53H-1-210, 53H-3-201, 53H-3-202, 53H-3-204, 53H-3-205, 53H-3-303, 53H-3-405, 53H-3-603, 53H-8-202, 53H-9-603, 63I-5-102, 63I-5-201