Session Laws

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to immediately regulate certain conduct of members and former members of the board of regents of higher education, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 2 of chapter 15A of the General Laws, as amended by section 1 of chapter 609 of the acts of 1985, is hereby further amended by inserting after the fifth paragraph the following paragraph:-

A person affiliated with an independent institution of higher education shall be eligible for membership on said board of regents. No member of said board of regents shall be found to be in violation of section six of chapter two hundred and sixty-eight A for conduct which involves his participation, as a member of said board of regents, in a particular matter before said board which may affect the financial interest of an independent institution of higher education with which he is affiliated; provided, however, that said member, his immediate family or partner, has no personal and direct financial interest in said particular matter; and provided, further, that such affiliation is disclosed to said board and recorded in the minutes of said board.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one or any general or special law to the contrary, no present or former member of the board of regents of higher education shall be the subject of an enforcement action or found to be in violation of section six of chapter two hundred and sixty-eight A of the General Laws for conduct occurring prior to the effective date of this act which involves his participation, as a member of said board of regents, in a particular matter before said board which may affect the financial interest of an independent institution of higher education with which such present of former member is affiliated; provided, however, that said present or former member or his immediate family or partner, has no personal and direct financial interest in said particular matter.