Virginia HB 939

Baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; Richard Bland College; boards of visitors; membership; student representative. Increases by one the membership of the board of visitors of Richard Bland College and of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. The bill requires at least one voting member of each such board of visitors to be a representative of the student body of the institution. The bill requires, in the case of any vacancy of the student representative on the board of visitors of Richard Bland College or any baccalaureate public institution of higher education, the student body of the relevant institution to submit to the Governor a list of three nominees from which the Governor is required to appoint a member to fill the vacancy. Current law permits the board of visitors of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education to appoint one or more nonvoting, advisory student representatives to the board.