                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MEMBERSHIP; TERMS; QUORUM; MEETINGS (§ 22.1-365)

A. The Board shall have a total membership of 16 members that shall consist of
10 nonlegislative citizen members and six ex officio members. Nonlegislative
citizen members to be appointed by the Governor shall represent or have STEM
experience with the public and private sector, industry partners, environmental
organizations, and both formal and informal STEM educational organizations. The
Director of the Science Museum of Virginia, the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, and the Executive Director of the State Council of Higher Education
for Virginia, or their designees, shall serve ex officio with full voting
privileges. The Secretary of Education; the Director of Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion for the Commonwealth; and the Chief Workforce Development Officer for
the Commonwealth, or their designees, shall serve ex officio without voting
privileges. Nonlegislative citizen members of the Board shall be citizens of the
Commonwealth.

B. Ex officio members of the Board shall serve terms coincident with their terms
of office. Appointments to fill vacancies, other than by expiration of a term,
shall be for the unexpired terms. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner
as the original appointments. All members may be reappointed. After the initial
staggering of terms, nonlegislative citizen members shall be appointed for a
term of four years. No nonlegislative 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&#8217;s eligibility for reappointment.

C. The Board shall elect a chairman and vice-chairman from among its membership.
A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum. The meetings of the Board
shall be held at the call of the chairman or whenever the majority of the
members so request.

HISTORY: 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 291; 2025, c. 144.