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2002 SESSION
020339720Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 2.2-2514 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 2.2-2514. Membership; terms; vacancies; chairman.
A. Persons appointed to the Board shall be selected for their knowledge of, background in, or experience with basic and applied research, emerging technologies, commercialization of the results and outputs of research activities, and the development and financing of technology intensive enterprises.
B. The Commission shall consist of twenty-seven twenty-nine members to be
appointed as follows: two members of the House Committee on Science and Technology appointed by the
Speaker of the House; the chairman of the Senate Committee on General Laws or his
designee; and twenty twelve citizen members representing institutions of
higher education, federal laboratories, and research- and technology-intensive
industries, six four of whom shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House,
four two of whom shall be appointed by the Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections, and ten six of whom shall be appointed by the Governor; the
Secretaries of Commerce and Trade, Education, and Technology, or their
designees; and the Director of the State Council of Higher Education for
Virginia or her designee and the President of the Center for Innovative
Technology or his designee. The following members shall serve as ex officio
members with voting privileges: the Vice Provosts of Research, or their designees, at the
University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, George Mason
University, James Madison University, The College of William and Mary, Old
Dominion University, and Virginia Commonwealth University; the Director of
Jefferson Laboratories or his designee, the Executive Director of the Naval
Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division or his designee, and the Director of
the NASA Langley Research Center or his designee. Legislative members shall be
appointed to serve terms coincident with their terms of office. The citizen
members shall be appointed for terms of four years, except that appointments to
fill vacancies shall be for the unexpired term. Vacancies shall be filled in
the manner of the original appointments.
C. The Governor shall designate one member representing Virginia's research universities and one member representing the private sector as cochairs.
D. A majority of the members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum. Commission meetings shall be upon the call of the cochairs.
E. Members of the Commission shall receive compensation and be entitled to be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties as provided in §§ 2.2-2104, 2.2-2813, 2.2-2823, 2.2-2825 and 30-19.12.