Mississippi Higher Education Executive Officer Selection Amendment (2020)
| Mississippi Higher Education Executive Officer Selection Amendment | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Education | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The Mississippi Higher Education Executive Officer Selection Amendment (HCR 51) was not on the ballot in Mississippi as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
The measure would have required the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning to create a policy to govern how executive officers of higher education institutions are selected. The board would have been authorized to utilize a seven-member search committee to select executive officers, though the board would have retained authority to make final selections.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot summary
The ballot explanation for the amendment would have appeared as follows:[1]
| “ | This proposed amendment provides that the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning shall establish a policy to govern the process by which institutional executive officers are elected, either of its own volition or through the use of an appointed seven-member search committee, as deemed necessary, established solely for the purpose of selecting qualified candidates in accordance with board policy. The delegation of such authority to a search committee shall not be construed to limit the power of the board to have the final authority to elect the institutional executive officers of the various state institutions of higher learning.[2] | ” |
Constitutional changes
- See also: Mississippi Constitution
The full text is available here.
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Mississippi Constitution
In Mississippi, for a legislatively referred constitutional amendment to be certified for the ballot, two-thirds of each house of the Mississippi State Legislature must vote to put it there. The absolute number of those voting in favor must be equal to at least a majority of the members elected to each house.
This amendment was introduced as House Concurrent Resolution 51 on February 17, 2020. The measure was passed in the House on March 12, 2020, in a vote of 102-17. To pass the House, 80 votes in favor were required.[3][4]
The measure was not passed before the legislature adjourned on July 12, 2020.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mississippi State Legislature, "House Concurrent Resolution 51," accessed May 12, 2020
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Mississippi Legislature, "House Concurrent Resolution 51," accessed May 12, 2020
- ↑ Y'all Politics, "Major floor action deadline leaves some bills thriving and others dead," accessed March 13, 2020
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