                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INTERDEPARTMENTAL BOARD; COOPERATION WITH DEPARTMENT (§ 2.2-1608)

A. The Interdepartmental Board established by the Director shall be composed of
heads of the several departments and agencies of state government, or their
respective designees, whose functions affect small, women-owned, and
minority-owned businesses. The participating departments and agencies shall be
determined by the Director of the Department. The Interdepartmental Board shall
meet at the call of the Director and shall supply the Director with information
useful in promoting small, women-owned, and minority-owned business development.

B. The head of each participating state department and agency or his designee
shall furnish information, assistance, and reports to, and shall otherwise
cooperate with, the Director in the performance of his duties as needed.

C. The head of each participating state department or agency shall, when so
requested by the Director, designate an assistant or such other similar official
to have primary and continuing responsibility for the participation and
cooperation of that department or agency in matters concerning small,
women-owned, and minority-owned businesses.

D. Each participating state department or agency shall, within constraints of
law and availability of funding, continue all current efforts to foster and
promote small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses and to support small,
women-owned, and minority-owned business programs, and shall cooperate with the
Director in increasing the total state effort.

HISTORY: 2013, c. 482.