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1996 SESSION
HB 1228 Appointment of State Librarian.
Introduced by: John J. Davies III | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Appointment of State Librarian. Transfers authority to appoint the State Librarian from the Governor to the Library Board.
The Commission on State Governmental Management, known as the Hopkins Commission, had agreed in 1974 that appointment authority for agency heads should rest with the Governor; a formal recommendation, supported by Senate Bill No. 667, was submitted in 1977. Although the 1977 Session of the General Assembly approved legislation providing for gubernatorial appointment of the administrative heads of state agencies "notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary," it was not until 1984 that Title 42.1 was amended to clarify that the authority to appoint the State Librarian would be transferred from the Library Board to the Governor.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth became state librarian in 1832 and held this position until 1903, when constitutional revisions and corresponding legislation placed the management of the state library with a library board, appointed by the State Board of Education; this Library Board would select the State Librarian.
FULL TEXT
- 01/22/96 House: Presented & ordered printed 960901753 pdf
- 03/06/96 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1228ER) pdf
- 04/17/96 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/22/96 House: Presented & ordered printed 960901753
- 01/22/96 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/24/96 House: Assigned to General Laws sub-committee: 5
- 02/01/96 House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/96 House: Read first time
- 02/05/96 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/06/96 House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/96 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/96 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/07/96 Senate: Read first time
- 02/07/96 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/21/96 Senate: Reported from General Laws (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/96 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/96 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/96 Senate: Read third time
- 02/23/96 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/96 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/96 Senate: Rec. of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/96 Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/96 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/96 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/06/96 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1228ER)
- 03/08/96 House: Enrolled
- 03/09/96 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/96 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/07/96 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 812 (effective 7/1/96)
- 04/17/96 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812)