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LA HB1063
Bill
Status
3/30/2026
Primary Sponsor
Charles Owen
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AI Summary
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Management boards must annually review and vote to certify all core curriculum courses meet criteria of being foundational to education, necessary for civic/professional life, and reflecting historic liberal arts methodologies, with compliance required by end of 2027-2028 academic year
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Tenure-track faculty job postings and senior administrator hiring (chancellors, presidents, provosts, deans) require public management board approval, with postings and candidate CVs published online at least 30 days prior; presidential/provost search committees must have at least 60% board members as the only voting members
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Faculty deliberative bodies (senates, councils) are restricted to advisory-only roles with no policymaking authority; membership limited to tenured full professors serving one-year terms with four-year gaps between service; presidents appoint body leadership
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Following major campus disruptions from student violations, institutions must submit anonymized quarterly disciplinary reports for 18 months including sanction data and names of admissions officers who reviewed sanctioned students' applications
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Beginning fiscal year 2027-2028, institutions cannot expend appropriated funds until their management board certifies compliance with all provisions to the legislature and Board of Regents
Legislative Description
Provides requirements for public postsecondary education management boards relative to core curricula, hiring and employment, faculty deliberative bodies, and nonacademic disciplinary proceedings and prohibits institutions from expending certain funds under certain circumstances (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
HIGHER EDUCATION
Last Action
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
3/31/2026