VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL

• Code of Virginia
• Virginia Administrative Code
• Constitution of Virginia
• Charters
• Authorities
• Compacts
• Uncodified Acts
• RIS Users (account required)

SEARCHABLE DATABASES

• Bills & Resolutions
  session legislation
• Bill Summaries
  session summaries
• Reports to the General Assembly
  House and Senate documents
• Legislative Liaisons
  State agency contacts

ACROSS SESSIONS

• Subject Index: Since 1995
• Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
• Summaries: Since 1994

Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.

2001 SESSION

• history | hilite | pdf | print version

013352644
HOUSE BILL NO. 2028 Offered January 10, 2001 Prefiled January 10, 2001 A BILL to amend and reenact § 3.1-290 of the Code of Virginia, relating to membership of the State Seed Potato Board. ---------- Patrons-- Bloxom; Senator: Norment ---------- Referred to Committee on Agriculture ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 3.1-290 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 3.1-290. State Seed Potato Commission continued as State Seed Potato Board.

The State Seed Potato Commission within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is continued and shall hereafter be known as the State Seed Potato Board. The State Seed Potato Board shall consist of seven members from the principal potato-growing areas, five of whomwho shall be actively engaged in potato production and two of whom shall be actively engaged as potato dealers. The members of the Board shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly, and serve for four-year terms each and until their successors are appointed and take office. Such appointments may be made from recommendations submitted by the producer and dealer organizations in the principal potato-growing areas. Four members of the Board shall constitute a quorum.

The Board shall elect its own chairman and meet at least once each year, prior to the beginning of the seed-potato-buying season, and at such other times during the year as it may deem necessary. At such meetings it shall be the duty of the Board to make such amendments as are necessary in the seed potato standards adopted by the Board pursuant to this chapter, and to the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant hereto for enforcing such standards. The chairman of the Board shall have the authority to request the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Dean of the College of Agriculture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the chairman of the State Certified Seed Board, and the Director of the Virginia Truck and Ornamentals Research Station to appoint appropriate representatives as advisers to the State Seed Potato Board.