2014 Virginia Code
Title 2.2 - Administration of Government
§ 2.2-2471. Virginia Board of Workforce Development; purpose; membership; terms; compensation and expenses; staff

A. The Virginia Board of Workforce Development (the Board) is established as a policy board, within the meaning of § 2.2-2100, in the executive branch of state government. The purpose of the Board shall be to assist and advise the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Chief Workforce Development Advisor in meeting workforce training needs in the Commonwealth through recommendation of policies and strategies to increase coordination and thus efficiencies of operation between all education and workforce programs with responsibilities and resources for occupational training.

B. The Board shall consist of a maximum of 26 members as follows:

1. The Board shall include two members of the House of Delegates to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates and two members of the Senate to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules. Legislative members shall serve terms coincident with their terms of office and may be reappointed for successive terms.

2. The Governor or his designee who shall be selected from among the cabinet-level officials appointed to the Board; the Secretaries of Commerce and Trade, Education, Health and Human Resources, and Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security, or their designees; and the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System or his designee shall serve as ex officio members.

3. The Governor shall appoint members as follows: one local elected official; two representatives nominated by state labor federations; and 14 nonlegislative citizen members representing the business community, to include the presidents of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and the Virginia Manufacturers Association, one representative of proprietary employment training schools, one representative of health care employers, and the remaining members who are business owners, chief executive officers, chief operating officers, chief financial officers, senior managers, or other business executives or employers with optimum policy-making or hiring authority and who shall represent diverse regions of the state, to include urban, suburban, and rural areas, at least two of whom shall be members of local workforce investment boards. Nonlegislative citizen members may be nonresidents of the Commonwealth.

Members appointed in accordance with this subdivision shall serve four-year terms, subject to the pleasure of the Governor, and may be reappointed.

C. If one person appointed to fill one of the enumerated positions in subsection B also qualifies to fill any other of the enumerated positions, such person may, at the discretion of the Governor, be deemed to fill any or all of the enumerated positions for which such person qualifies.

D. The Governor shall select a chairman and vice-chairman, who shall serve two-year terms, from among the 14 nonlegislative citizen members representing the business community appointed in accordance with subdivision B 3. No member shall be eligible to serve more than one two-year term as chairman. The Board shall meet upon the call of the chair or the Governor. The chairman and the vice-chairman shall select at least five members of the Board to serve as an executive committee of the Board, which shall have the limited purpose of establishing meeting agendas, approving reports to the Governor, and responding to urgent federal, state, and local issues between scheduled Board meetings.

E. Compensation and reimbursement of expenses of the members shall be as follows:

1. Legislative members appointed in accordance with subdivision B 1 shall receive such compensation and reimbursement of expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as provided in §§ 2.2-2813, 2.2-2825, and 30-19.12.

2. Members of the Board appointed in accordance with subdivision B 2 shall not receive compensation but 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.

3. Members of the Board appointed in accordance with subdivision B 3 shall not receive compensation but 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.

Funding for the costs of compensation and expenses of the members shall be provided from federal funds received under the WIA.

F. The Chief Workforce Development Advisor shall serve as lead staff to the Board. The Office of the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System (i) shall provide staff support to accomplish the federally mandated requirements of the WIA and (ii) shall enter into a memorandum of agreement with the Offices of the Secretaries of Commerce and Trade and Education for the purpose of having personnel from the Office provide staff support to accomplish the other duties and functions of the Board. The memorandum of agreement shall address the scope of duties of the Offices' personnel in providing such staff assistance to the Board. All other agencies in the executive branch of the Commonwealth shall provide assistance to the Board upon request.

2014, c. 815.