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2001 SESSION


CHAPTER 227
An Act to amend and reenact § 2.1-20.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation and expense payments to collegial bodies in the executive branch.
[H 2517]
Approved March 14, 2001

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 2.1-20.3 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 2.1-20.3. Compensation and expense payments from state funds for certain executive department services.

A. Subject to the provisions of subsections B and C, members of boards, commissions, committees, councils and other similar bodies, who are appointed at the state level, shall be compensated at the rate of fifty dollars per day, unless a different rate of compensation is specified by statute for such members, plus reasonable and necessary expenses, for each day or portion thereof in which the member is engaged in the business of that body.

B. Full-time employees of the Commonwealth or any of its local political subdivisions, including full-time faculty members of state-supported colleges and universities, shall be limited to reimbursement for such employee's reasonable and necessary expenses.

C. No person member shall receive total compensation for a single day of more than fifty dollars per day one payment of the highest per diem amount specified in subsection A for attending meetings and for services performed on any one that day for all boards, commissions, or other similar bodies, of which such person is a member, including all committees, subcommittees, or other related entities of such boards, commissions, or other similar bodies. Whenever a member performs services or attends two or more meetings in a single day for two or more boards, commissions, etc., compensation and expenses shall be prorated among the bodies served.