A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to promote more diversity on the university of north CAROLINA board of governors.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
 SECTION 1.  The cochairs of the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee shall appoint a subcommittee of its members to study and make recommendations regarding methods to increase the political, economic, and regional diversity of the individuals elected by the General Assembly to serve on the University of North Carolina Board of Governors.
The subcommittee shall examine issues such as whether to increase the size of the Board of Governors, whether to reserve specific seats for each of the constituent institutions, and whether to require that a certain proportion of the membership be members of the minority political party.
The subcommittee shall report its findings and recommendations to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee no later than March 1, 2014, and the full committee may report its findings and recommendations by May 1, 2014, to the 2013 General Assembly.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.