§7.1. Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges
Section 7.1.(A) Creation; Powers; Institutions; Divisions. (1) The Board of
Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges is created as a body corporate to manage
the Louisiana Community and Technical College System subject to powers vested by this
Article in the Board of Regents. The system shall include all programs of public
postsecondary vocational-technical training, and, as provided by law, institutions of higher
education which offer associate degrees but not baccalaureate degrees and such programs and
institutions shall be supervised and managed by the board. The system shall be comprised
of two divisions, the vocational-technical division which shall include all public
postsecondary vocational-technical schools and the community college division which shall
include the community colleges in the system.
(2) All public institutions which exclusively or predominantly provide programs of
postsecondary vocational-technical education shall be under the jurisdiction of the Board of
Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges. Such institutions may not be transferred
from the Louisiana Community and Technical College System.
(3) The provision of any program subject to the supervision and management of and
offered at any institution under the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors of Community
and Technical Colleges which is not a degree program shall require no approval beyond that
of the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges.
(B)(1) Membership; Terms; Initial Membership and Terms. The board shall be
composed of fifteen members appointed by the governor, as provided by law. In addition,
the board shall have two student members as provided by law. All members selected and
appointed by the governor shall be appointed with the consent of the Senate. Of those
members selected and appointed by the governor, there shall be two members from each
congressional district and the remaining member or members from the state at large. The
board should be representative of the state's population by race and gender to ensure
diversity. The members selected and appointed by the governor shall serve terms of six
years, except that the initial members shall serve terms as provided by law.
(2) No person who has served as a member of the board for more than two and one-half terms in three consecutive terms shall be appointed to the board for the succeeding term.
This Subparagraph shall not apply to any person appointed to the board prior to the effective
date of this Subparagraph,1 except that it shall apply to any term of service of any such
person that begins after such date.
(C) Vacancy. A vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of a term of a member
selected and appointed by the governor shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term
by appointment by the governor, with consent of the Senate. Any other vacancy shall be
filled as provided by law.
(D) Transitional Funding. Appropriations annually from the state general fund for
Fiscal Years 1999-2000, 2000-2001, and 2001-2002, for those institutions of higher
education supervised and managed in 1998 by each of the management boards of higher
education, that is the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural
and Mechanical College, the Board of Supervisors of Southern University and Agricultural
and Mechanical College, and the Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities,
respectively, shall be no less than the appropriations from the state general fund in Fiscal
Year 1998-1999 for those same institutions of higher education regardless of their
management boards. Appropriations annually from the state general fund for Fiscal Years
1999-2000, 2000-2001, and 2001-2002, for those institutions in the Louisiana Community
and Technical College System shall be no less than the state general fund appropriations in
Fiscal Year 1998-1999 for those same institutions regardless of their management boards.
Appropriations annually from the state general fund for Fiscal Years 1999-2000, 2000-2001,
and 2001-2002, for postsecondary vocational-technical education shall be no less than the
total of all appropriations for such purpose from the state general fund for Fiscal Year 1998-1999. The provisions of this Paragraph shall be null and void for any such fiscal year in
which state general fund revenues are less than the state general fund revenues of Fiscal Year
1998-1999 as determined by the Revenue Estimating Conference.
(E) The transfer of any institution of higher education to the Louisiana Community
and Technical College System effected on July 1, 1999, pursuant to this Section shall not
change the mission of or adversely affect the accreditation of such institution.
Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 170, §1, approved Oct. 3, 1998, eff. Nov. 5, 1998; Acts
2008, No. 935, §1, approved Nov. 4, 2008, eff. Dec. 8, 2008.
1Dec. 8, 2008.