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2010 SESSION
10102321DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 2.2-2669 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 2.2-2669. Virginia Workforce Council; purpose; membership; terms; compensation and expenses; staff.
A. The Virginia Workforce Council (the Council) is established as a policy council, within the meaning of § 2.2-2100, in the executive branch of state government. The purpose of the Council shall be to assist the Governor in meeting workforce training needs in the Commonwealth.
B. The Council shall consist of 29 27
members as follows:
1. The Council shall include two members of the House of Delegates to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates; and two members of the Senate to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules. Legislative members shall serve terms coincident with their terms of office and may be reappointed for successive terms.
2. The Governor or his designee; the Secretaries of Commerce
and Trade, Education, and Health and Human Resources Technology; the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College
System; and the Commissioner of the
Virginia Employment Commission; and the president of
the Virginia AFL-CIO shall serve as members.
3. The Governor shall appoint members as follows: one mayor
and one chairperson of a county board of supervisors; one
representative two representatives
of labor in addition to the president of the Virginia
AFL-CIO; and 15 14
nonlegislative citizen members representing the business community, to include
the presidents of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and the Virginia
Manufacturer's Association, one representative of proprietary employment
training schools, one representative of health care employers, and the
remaining members who are business owners, chief executive officers, chief
operating officers, chief financial officers, senior managers or other business
executives or employers with optimum policy-making or hiring authority and who
shall represent diverse regions of the state, to include urban, suburban, and
rural areas, at least two of whom shall be members of local workforce investment
boards. Nonlegislative citizen members may be nonresidents of the Commonwealth.
Members appointed in accordance with this subdivision shall serve four-year terms, subject to the pleasure of the Governor, and may be reappointed.
C. If one person appointed to fill one of the enumerated positions in subsection B also qualifies to fill any other of the enumerated positions, such person may, at the discretion of the Governor, be deemed to fill any or all of the enumerated positions for which such person qualifies.
D. The Governor shall select a chairman and vice-chairman from
among the 15 14
members representing the business community appointed in accordance with
subdivision 3 of subsection B. The Council shall meet upon the call of the
chair or the Governor.
E. Compensation and reimbursement of expenses of the members shall be as follows:
1. Legislative members appointed in accordance with subdivision B 1 shall receive such compensation and reimbursement of expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as provided in §§ 2.2-2813, 2.2-2825, and 30-19.12.
2. Members of the Council appointed in accordance with subdivision B 2 shall not receive compensation but 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.
3. Members of the Council appointed in accordance with subdivision B 3 shall not receive compensation but 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 the costs of compensation and expenses of the members shall be provided from federal funds received under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-220, as amended).
F. The Office of the Chancellor
of the Virginia Community College System shall provide strategic guidance and be the priority option for delivery of workforce
training programs. The Office of the Governor shall provide staff support to the
Council.