Chap. 218.—An ACT to establish an unpaid commission on interstate coopera-
tion, and prescribe the duties of said commission. {[H B 222]

Approved March 23, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, There is
hereby established the Virginia Commission on Interstate Cooperation,
which shall encourage and arrange conferences with officials of other
states and of other units of government; carry forward the participa-
tion of this State as a member of the council of State governments,
both regionally and nationally; and formulate proposals for coopera-
tion between this State and other states,

2. There is hereby established a standing committee on interstate
cooperation of the Senate, to consist of five senators. The members and
chairman of this committee shall be designated in the same manner
as is customary in the case of the members and chairmen of other
standing committees of the Senate. The Lieutenant-Governor may
serve as one of the five members of this committee.

3. There is hereby established a similar standing committee on
interstate cooperation of the House of Delegates, also to consist of five
members ; and the members and chairman of this committee shall be
designated in the same manner as is customary in the case of the mem-
bers and chairmen of other standing committees of the House of
Delegates.

4. The said commission on interstate cooperation shall be composed
of fifteen members, namely:

The five members of the committee on interstate cooperation of
the Senate,

The five members of the committee on interstate cooperation of the
House of Delegates, and

Five officials of the State government named by the Governor, one
of whom shall be designated by him as the chairman of the com-
mission.

The Governor shall be an honorary member of the commission.

5. The commission shall establish such committee as it deems advis-
able, to conduct conferences and to formulate proposals concerning
subjects of inter-governmental cooperation. Subject to the approval of
the commission, the members of every such committee shall be ap-
pointed by the chairman of the commission. State officials who are
not members of the commission on interstate cooperation may be ap-
pointed as members of any such committee, but at least one member
of the commission shall be a member of every such committee. The
commission may provide such rules as it considers appropriate con-
cerning the membership and the functioning of any committee which
it establishes. The commission may provide for advisory boards for
itself and for its various committees, and for the service of private
citizens on such boards.

6. The commission shall report to the Governor and to the General
Assembly within fifteen days after the convening of each regular legis-
lative session, and at such other times as it deems appropriate. Its
members and the members of all committees which it establishes shall
serve without compensation.

7. The said standing committee of the Senate and the said standing
committee of the House of Delegates, shall function during the regular
sessions of the General Assembly and also during the interim periods
between such sessions; their members shall serve until their successors
are designated; and they shall respectively constitute the Senate and
House councils of the American Legislators’ Association for this State.
The term of each administrative member of the commission shall ex-
tend until the next gubernatorial inauguration and thereafter until his
successor is appointed.

8. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall forthwith com-
municate the text of this measure to the Governor, to the Senate, and
to the House of Delegates of each of the other states of the Union,
and memorialize each legislature which has not already done so, to
enact a law similar to this measure, thus establishing a similar com-
mission with like duties and powers, and thus joining with this State
in the common cause of reducing the burdens which are imposed upon
the citizens of every state by governmental confusion, competition and
conflict.