Texas Education Code
§ 61.0225 — NONVOTING STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
ED § 61.0225Title 3. HIGHER EDUCATION · Part B. STATE COORDINATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION · Ch. 61. TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD · Art. B. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Statute text
View on source(a)In this section:
(1)"Board" means the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board or its successor agency.
(2)"Student government" means the representative student organization directly elected by the student body of an institution of higher education.
(b)A student representative shall be appointed to the board. The student representative is not a state officer. Except as otherwise provided by this section, the appointment of a student representative to the board shall be made in the same manner as a student regent is appointed under Section 51.355(c). The student representative to the board serves a term that is the same as the term of a student regent appointed under Section 51.355.
(c)The board shall develop a uniform application form to be used by each institution of higher education to solicit applicants for the position of student representative to the board.
(d)For an institution of higher education that is not part of a university system, the president of the institution, from among the applicants selected as the student government's recommendations for the position of student representative to the board, shall select two or more applicants as the institution's recommendations for the position and send the applications of those applicants to the governor in accordance with the deadline established under Section 51.355(c) for a chancellor to send applications to the governor for a student regent.
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1311 (S.B. 1007), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.