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HOUSE BILL NO. 1272 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the House Committee on Education on February 5, 2014) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Howell, A.T.) A BILL to adjust the Governor's power to remove members of boards of visitors of certain public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Notwithstanding subsection A of § 2.2-108 of the Code of Virginia or any other provision of law to the contrary, the Governor may (i) remove from office any member of the board of any public institution of higher education in Virginia that (a) was founded in 1935 as the Norfolk Unit of Virginia Union University and (b) was established as a corporation under its current name in Chapter 146 of the Acts of Assembly of 1979 and (ii) fill the vacancy resulting from the removal. Each appointment to fill a vacancy shall be subject to confirmation by the General Assembly.

2. That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.

3. That the provisions of this act shall expire on July 1, 2016.