HB2230: Higher Education, Virginia Commission on; composition of Board members.
HOUSE BILL NO. 2230
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 2.2-2519 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 2.2-2519. Membership; terms.
The Commission shall have a total membership of seven nine members that shall
consist of five
seven nonlegislative citizen members and two ex officio
members. Nonlegislative citizen members shall be appointed as follows: two
nonlegislative citizen members who shall be former members of either the board
of visitors of a public institution of higher education or the State Board for
Community Colleges; one nonlegislative citizen member who shall be either a
former president, provost, or executive vice-president of a public institution
of higher education; one tenured faculty
member from a four-year public institution of higher education;
one faculty member from a community college; and
two nonlegislative citizen members who shall be citizens-at-large to be
appointed by the Governor. The Secretary of Education or his designee and the
Secretary of the Commonwealth or his designee shall serve ex officio with
nonvoting privileges. Nonlegislative citizen members of the Commission shall be
citizens of the Commonwealth.
Nonlegislative citizen members shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor, and ex officio members of the Commission shall serve terms coincident with their terms of office.