HB240 Alabama 2018 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Danny Garrett Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2018

Title

University of Alabama, Board of Trustees, congressional districts for membership as constituted on 1/1/2018, State Superintendent of Education removed from membership, age restriction of 70 deleted, Section 264 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, am'd, const. amend.

Description

Under existing law, the membership of the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama consists of members from each congressional district in the state, an additional member from the congressional district which includes the site of the first campus of the university, the State Superintendent of Education, and the Governor, as ex officio president of the board.

This bill would propose an amendment to Section 264 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended by Amendment 399 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 264 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, to specify that the congressional districts continue to reflect those as constituted on January 1, 2018, to remove the State Superintendent of Education from membership, and to delete the requirement that members vacate office at the annual meeting of the board following their seventieth birthday.

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Subjects

Constitutional Amendments