SB 719

This bill makes various changes to rules of the Board of Regents of the

University of Wisconsin (UW) System. The bill revises several rules to allow certain

types of notice to be served by electronic means in addition to the means allowed

under the current rules, which are personal service and service by certified mail. The

bill also eliminates an outdated provision in the rules regarding faculty holding

appointments under a statutory law that was repealed in 1974. The bill modifies

certain rules to be consistent with statutory changes made by the 2015 biennial

budget act,

2015 Wisconsin Act 55

. The act replaced the statutory term "classified

staff" with "university staff." The bill makes similar changes to the board's rules.

The bill also removes references in the rules to a statute regarding faculty tenure and

probationary appointments that was repealed by the act.

In addition, the bill also modifies the rules to refer to the UW System's 2-year

schools as "colleges," instead of the outdated term "centers." Also, the bill modifies

the rules to define "chancellor" as the chief executive officer of an "institution," which

is defined in a rule not affected by the bill as any university or an organizational

equivalent designated by the board. The bill also provides for capitalizing "Board of

Regents" and "University of Wisconsin System" throughout the administrative code.