Code of Virginia - Title 65.2 Workers' Compensation - Section 65.2-1301 Statewide Coordinating Committee; membership; terms

§ 65.2-1301. Statewide Coordinating Committee; membership; terms

A. The Statewide Coordinating Committee is established as an independent state committee and shall consist of nine nonlegislative citizen residents of the Commonwealth appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates and the Senate Committee on Rules. Five of the Committee members shall be physicians who have patients whose costs of treatment are reimbursed in whole or in part pursuant to this title; each physician member shall be appointed from and represent a different health systems area. One member shall be a representative of employers in the Commonwealth, one member shall be a representative of employees in the Commonwealth, one member shall be a representative of the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association and one member shall be a representative of insurance carriers that provide workers' compensation insurance in the Commonwealth. The physician members of the Committee may be appointed from nominations submitted by The Medical Society of Virginia. The chairman of the Statewide Coordinating Committee shall be a physician member of and selected by the Committee.

B. After the initial staggering of terms, appointments shall be made for terms of three years or the unexpired portions thereof. A vacancy other than by expiration of term shall be filled for the unexpired term by the Speaker of the House of Delegates and the Senate Committee on Rules. No person shall be eligible to serve more than two consecutive three-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.

C. The term of the members of the Statewide Coordinating Committee shall lapse, if such Committee fails to meet within 60 days following the written request of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission for such Committee to hold a meeting. Vacancies created by this subsection shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments and shall be for the unexpired terms.

(1980, c. 444, § 65.1-154; 1985, c. 29; 1991, c. 355; 2004, c. 1000.)

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