State Sen. John T. Yudichak, D-Luzerne/Carbon, unveiled comprehensive reform legislation that would fundamentally alter the governing structure at Penn State University to make its board of trustees more inclusive, engaged and accountable.

Yudichak said the trustee reform legislation was crafted to have the Penn State board be similar to the governing configuration at Pennsylvania's three other state-related universities Pittsburgh, Temple and Lincoln.The Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth Act is a bipartisan effort sponsored by 30 members of the state senate that would set the voting membership of the Penn State Board of Trustees at 36 members and make the governor, the secretary of education and secretary of agriculture nonvoting, ex-officio members of the board.Under the bill, the board of trustees would consist of 14 commonwealth trustees six appointed by the governor, four appointed by the president pro tempore of the senate and four by the speaker of the house; 10 at-large trustees appointed by a trustee selection committee and 12 alumni elected trustees.