ASSEMBLY, No. 260

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Assemblymen BATEMAN and KAVANAUGH

An Act concerning membership in the New Jersey Council of County Colleges and amending N.J.S.18A:64A-26, N.J.S.18A:64A-27 and P.L.1989, c.141.

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    1. N.J.S.18A:64A-26 is amended to read as follows:

    18A:64A-26. There is established a body corporate and politic, with succession, to be known as the New Jersey Council of County Colleges. The county colleges and the county college commissions [shall] may be members of the council.

(cf: P.L.1989, c.141, s.3)

    2. N.J.S.18A:64A-27 is amended to read as follows:

    18A:64A-27. The council shall consist of the presidents and chairmen of the boards of trustees of the [several] county community colleges and of the county college commissions ,which choose to be members. A trustee board chairman may designate another member of the board as an alternate to attend and to vote at council meetings in the chairman's absence. The Chancellor shall ex officio be an additional member without vote.

    Members shall serve without compensation but shall be entitled to be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses.

(cf: P.L.1989, c.141, s.4)

    3. Section 9 of P.L.1989, c.141 (C.18A:64A-28.5) is amended to read as follows:

    9. For the purposes of defraying the expenses of the council, the county colleges and county college commissions which are members of the council shall pay the necessary expenses incurred by the council and shall appropriate annually such sums for dues as may be assessed by the council. The assessment shall be made only upon a two-thirds vote of the membership present at the meeting after written notice of the proposed vote shall be given to each participating county college and county college commission at least 60 days before the council meeting at which the vote will be taken. Dues shall be on a graduated scale according to the size of the county college and county college commission.

(cf: P.L.1989, c.141, s.9)

    4. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill amends current law to provide that the membership of county colleges and county college commissions in the New Jersey Council of County Colleges shall be optional. Presently all county colleges and county college commissions are required to be members of the council.

Makes membership in the New Jersey Council of County Colleges optional.