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2023 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 10.1-1018 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 10.1-1018. Virginia Land Conservation Board of Trustees; membership; terms; vacancies; compensation and expenses.
A. The Foundation shall be governed and administered by a Board
of Trustees (the Board). The Board shall have a total membership of
19 20 members that shall consist of 17 18 citizen
members and two ex officio voting members as follows: four citizen members, who
may be members of the House of Delegates, to be appointed by the Speaker of the
House of Delegates and, if such members are members of the House of Delegates,
in accordance with the principles of proportional representation contained in
the Rules of the House of Delegates; two citizen members, who may be members of
the Senate, to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; 11 12
nonlegislative citizen members, one from each of the 11 congressional
district districts and one member of a state-recognized or federally
recognized Virginia Indian Tribe, to be appointed by the Governor; and the
Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, or his designee, and the Secretary
of Agriculture and Forestry, or his designee, to serve ex officio with voting
privileges. Nonlegislative citizen members shall be appointed for four-year
terms, except that initial appointments shall be made for terms of one to four
years in a manner whereby no more than six members shall have terms that expire
in the same year. Legislative members and the ex officio member shall serve
terms coincident with their terms of office. Appointments to fill vacancies,
other than by expiration of a term, shall be made for the unexpired terms.
Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments. All
members may be reappointed. However, no Senate member shall serve more than two
consecutive four-year terms, no House member shall serve more than four
consecutive two-year terms, and no nonlegislative citizen member shall
serve more than two consecutive four-year terms. The remainder of any term to
which a member is appointed to fill a vacancy shall not constitute a term in
determining the member's eligibility for reappointment. Nonlegislative citizen
members shall have experience or expertise, professional or personal, in one or
more of the following areas: natural resource protection and conservation,
construction and real estate development, natural habitat protection,
environmental resource inventory and identification, forestry management,
farming, farmland preservation, fish and wildlife management, historic
preservation, and outdoor recreation. At least one of the nonlegislative
citizen members shall be a farmer, and at least one shall be a member of a
state-recognized or federally recognized Virginia Indian Tribe. Members of
the Board shall post bond in the penalty of $5,000 with the State Comptroller
prior to entering upon the functions of office.
B. The Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources shall serve
as the chairman of the Board of Trustees. The chairman shall serve until
his successor is appointed. The members appointed as provided in subsection A
shall elect a vice-chairman annually from among the members of the Board. A
majority of the members of the Board serving at any one time shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of business. The board Board shall
meet at the call of the chairman or whenever a majority of the members so
request.
C. Trustees of the Foundation shall receive no compensation for their services. All members shall be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties on behalf of the Foundation as provided in §§ 2.2-2813 and 2.2-2825. Funding for the costs of expenses of the members shall be provided by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
D. The chairman of the Board and any other person designated by the Board to handle the funds of the Foundation shall give bond, with corporate surety, in such penalty as is fixed by the Governor, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties. The premium on the bonds shall be paid from funds available to the Foundation for such purpose.
E. The Board shall seek assistance in developing grant criteria and advice on grant priorities and any other appropriate issues from a task force consisting of the following agency heads or their designees: the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the State Forester, the Director of the Department of Historic Resources, the Director of the Department of Wildlife Resources and the Executive Director of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. The Board may request any other agency head to serve on or appoint a designee to serve on the task force.