Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SJR 1508
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/22/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Joyner) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 52 - 85
    4  and insert:
    5  law. The governor shall appoint to the board fourteen citizens
    6  dedicated to the purposes of the state university system. The
    7  appointed members shall be confirmed by the senate and serve
    8  staggered terms of seven years as provided by law. The
    9  commissioner of education, the chair of the advisory council of
   10  faculty senates, or the equivalent, and the chair of the council
   11  of student body presidents, which council shall be organized by
   12  the board of governors and consist of all the student body
   13  presidents of the state university system and the president of
   14  the Florida student association, or the equivalent, shall also
   15  be members of the board.
   16         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
   17  placed on the ballot:
   18                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT                     
   19                        ARTICLE IX, SECTION 7                      
   20         APPOINTMENT OF STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT TO BOARD OF GOVERNORS
   21  OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM.—Proposing an amendment to the
   22  State Constitution to remove the Florida Student Association as
   23  the organization responsible for electing the student member of
   24  the Board of Governors of the State University System and to
   25  require that the Board of Governors organize a council of state
   26  university student body presidents for the purpose of electing
   27  one of the state university student body presidents to the Board
   28  of Governors.
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   30  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   31         And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete lines 3 - 7
   33  and insert:
   34         of Article IX of the State Constitution to revise the
   35         selection process for the student member of the Board
   36         of Governors of the State University System.