§ 30-198. (Expires July 1, 2012) Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education; purpose; membership; com...
A. The Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education (Council) is established as an advisory council in the legislative branch of state government to recommend an integrated and coordinated multiagency approach for the delivery of quality career and technical education programs and services in the public schools.
B. The Council shall consist of 18 members, to be appointed as follows: one member each of the House Committees on Finance, Education, and Appropriations, and two members of the House of Delegates at-large, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates in accordance with the principles of proportional representation contained in the Rules of the House of Delegates; one each of the Senate Committees on Finance and Education and Health, and one member of the Senate at-large, to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; four representatives of business and industry from companies of varying size, geographically distributed from among the eight superintendents' regions of the Commonwealth, to be appointed by the Governor; and the President of the Board of Education, the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System, the Chairman of the Board of Correctional Education, the Secretary of Commerce and Trade, the Secretary of Education, and the Secretary of Technology or their designees shall serve as ex officio members with full voting privileges. Members appointed by the Governor shall be citizens of the Commonwealth.
C. Legislative members and state government officials shall serve terms coincident with their terms of office. All appointments of nonlegislative citizen members shall be for four-year terms, following the initial staggering of terms. Appointments to fill vacancies, other than by expiration of a term, shall be for the unexpired terms. Legislative and citizen members may be reappointed; however, no 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 term limit. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments.
Legislative members of the Council shall receive such compensation as provided in § 30-19.12, and nonlegislative citizen members shall receive such compensation as provided in § 2.2-2813 for their services. All members 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. However, all such compensation and expense payments shall be paid from existing appropriations to the Council.
D. The Council shall elect a chairman and vice-chairman annually from among its legislative members. A majority of the members of the Council shall constitute a quorum. The Council shall meet no more than four times a year, upon the call of the chairman or the majority of the members.
E. No recommendation of the Commission shall be adopted if a majority of the Senate members or a majority of the House members appointed to the Commission (i) vote against the recommendation and (ii) vote for the recommendation to fail notwithstanding the majority vote of the Commission.
(2002, c. 526; 2004, cc. 989, 1000.)
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