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Beverly B. Burnsed Chairman House Committee on Higher Education Tallahassee

QUESTION:

May a member of the Florida House of Representatives who also chairs the House Higher Education Committee serve as a member of a community college board of trustees without violating the constitutional dual officeholding prohibition?

SUMMARY:

Unless and until judicially or legislatively determined otherwise, neither the constitutional dual officeholding prohibition nor the common-law doctrine on incompatible offices prevents you as a legislator and Chairman of the House Higher Education Committee from holding…