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CHAPTER 485 An Act to amend and reenact § 2.2-2699.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Aerospace Advisory Council; membership. [H 2499] Approved March 27, 2009

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 2.2-2699.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 2.2-2699.1. (Expires July 1, 2010) Aerospace Advisory Council; purpose; membership; compensation; chairman.

A. The Aerospace Advisory Council (the Council) is established as an advisory council, within the meaning of § 2.2-2100, in the executive branch of state government. The purpose of the Council shall be to advise the Governor on policy and funding priorities to promote the aerospace and space exploration industry in the Commonwealth.

B. The Council shall have a total membership of 13 14 members that shall consist of four legislative members and 9 10 nonlegislative citizen members. Members shall be appointed as follows: three members of the House of Delegates to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates in accordance with the principles of proportional representation contained in the Rules of the House of Delegates; one member of the Senate, to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules and nine 10 nonlegislative citizen members, of whom one shall represent the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, one shall represent Old Dominion University, and one shall represent Virginia Tech, to be appointed by the Governor. The Director of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium shall serve as an ex officio member with voting privileges. A representative of NASA Wallops Flight Facility, a representative of NASA's Langley Research Center, and a representative of the National Institute of Aerospace, all to be appointed by the Governor, shall serve as ex- officio liaisons to the Council with nonvoting privileges. Legislative members shall serve terms coincident with their terms of office. Other members shall be appointed for terms of two years. Appointments to fill vacancies, other than by expiration of a term, shall be for the unexpired terms. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments. All members may be reappointed.

C. Legislative members of the Council shall receive such compensation as provided in § 30-19.12. Nonlegislative citizen members shall serve without compensation. All members shall be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as provided in §§ 2.2-2813 and 2.2-2825. Funding for compensation and expenses of legislative members shall be provided by the operating budgets of the Clerk of the House of Delegates and the Clerk of the Senate upon approval of the Joint Rules Committee. Funding for the costs of expenses of the nonlegislative citizen members and all other expenses of the Council shall be provided by the Office of the Secretary of Technology.

D. The Council shall elect a chairman and a vice-chairman annually from among its membership. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum. The Council shall meet at such times as may be called by the chairman or a majority of the Council.

E. Staff to the Council shall be provided by the Office of the Secretary of Technology.