                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND REVIEW COMMITTEE; APPOINTMENT; TERMS; DUTIES (§
32.1-111.12:01)

A. For the purposes of administering the Virginia Rescue Squads Assistance Fund
as provided in &#xA7; 32.1-111.12, there is hereby established the Financial
Assistance and Review Committee. The Committee shall be composed of six members
who shall be representatives of the regions encompassed by the emergency medical
services councils and appointed by the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory
Board. To ensure that each regional emergency medical services council is
provided an opportunity to serve on the Committee, the Board of Health shall
promulgate by regulation, after receiving the Advisory Board&#8217;s
recommendation, a cycle which provides for rotating geographic representation
among the councils.

B. Members serving on the Financial Assistance and Review Committee on January
1, 1996, shall complete their current terms of office. Thereafter, appointments
shall be made for terms of three years or the unexpired portions thereof in a
manner to preserve, insofar as possible, the representation of the emergency
medical services councils. No member may serve more than two successive terms.
The chairman shall be elected from the membership of the Committee for a term of
one year and shall be eligible for reelection. The Committee shall meet at least
four times annually at the call of the chairman or the Commissioner.

C. The Financial Assistance and Review Committee shall:

   1. Administer the Rescue Squads Assistance Fund in accordance with the rules
   and regulations of the State Board of Health as shall be established for the
   Fund;

   2. Review the Rescue Squads Assistance Fund grant applications from eligible
   emergency medical services agencies and make recommendations on the funding of
   such grant applications to the Commissioner of Health; and

   3. Report biannually, after each funding cycle, the number of grant
   applications received, the total costs of grant applications funded, the
   number of grant applications denied funding, the total costs of grant
   applications denied funding, and the nature of the denied requests and the
   reasons for denying funding, to the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory
   Board and the Commissioner.

HISTORY: 1996, c. 998.