2019 Senate Bill 115

Mandate corporate board female membership quota

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 14, 2019

Introduced by Sen. Sylvia Santana (D-3)

To mandate that publicly-held corporations (those that have sold stock to the public) must have a specified number of females on their board of directors. If the board contains four members the bill would mandate that at least one would have to be female, or two females on a five-member board, or at least three females on a board with six or more members.

Referred to the Committee on Economic and Small Business Development