HB 218 -- Public Schools

Co-Sponsors:  Farnen, Graham, Ridgeway, Reinhart

This bill makes changes to several sections of law pertaining
primarily to higher education.  In its major provisions, the
bill:

(1)  Designates February as "Missouri Lifelong Learning Month";

(2)  Deletes an inaccurate reference to the faculty
representative to the University of Missouri curators;

(3)  Deletes the prohibition on the University's collecting
tuition;

(4)  Creates a program to promote research on spinal cord
injury, with a requirement that the curators request an
appropriation of no less than $200,000 each year; criteria for
proposal selection and the maximum size of awards are included
in the bill;

(5)  Sets up an advisory board, to be appointed by the
University curators, to solicit and select research proposals
for the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program; procedures
concerning peer review and the requirement for certain meetings
to be closed are detailed in the bill;

(6)  Creates a confidentiality requirement for governing boards
of regional state colleges, Lincoln University, and Truman State
University; makes explicit the right of members of such boards
to recuse themselves; and permits board meetings to be closed to
student representatives;

(7)  Clarifies the powers of the student representative on the
board of Truman State University; and

(8)  Makes the powers, duties, and conditions of appointment for
the Lincoln University student representative consistent with
those of other institutions.

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:42 am