H390 - Beaufort County Community College/Washington County (SL 2015-167)

Overview: S.L. 2015-167 authorizes the appointment to the board of trustees of Beaufort Community College of an additional member elected by the board of commissioners of a county in which the main campus is not located that is within the administrative area of the community college.

Effective August 1, 2015, and applying to enrollment for the 2015 fall academic semester and beyond, the State Board of Community Colleges (SBCC) must review, at least every five years, service areas that include counties assigned to more than one community college to determine the feasibility of continuing to assign more than one community college to those counties. The first review and any revisions to service areas by the SBCC and a report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee must be completed no later than March 1, 2016.

This act became effective July 23, 2015.