Oro Valley lawmaker drops bid to break up Board of Regents

By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services via Arizona Daily Star

The Arizona Board of Regents will remain intact, and with all its powers, after a legislator agreed not to try to break it up this year.

Rep. Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley, said Tuesday he will not force a vote on his legislation to create separate governing boards to make policy, funding and tuition decisions for each of the three state universities. HB 2359 would have reduced the regents’ authority to a strictly advisory role.

Finchem said his decision came after “some folks from the Board of Regents” agreed to create a “working group to try and sort through some of the questions of accountability and some of the accusations of largess.”

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