CHAPTER 560

AN ACT to provide for the creation and appointment of a commission on
the aging, to prescribe its duties, responsibilities, and powers, and to
appropriate moneys for the commission. 5

[S 118}

Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. There is hereby created in the Executive Department, a Com-
mission on the Aging, hereinafter referred to as the Commission. The
Commission shall consist of the State Health Commissioner, the Super-
intendent of Public Instruction, the Director of the Department of Welfare
and Institutions, the Commissioner of Labor, the Commissioner of Mental
Hygiene and Hospitals, the Commissioner of the Unemployment Com-
pensation Commission, hereinafter designated ex officio members, a chair-
man, and five other persons, hereinafter designated appointive members,
appointed by the Governor from the general public.

§ 2. The Chairman shall be appointed by the Governor for a term to
coincide with his term as Governor, and shall hold office at the pleasure of
the Governor. The appointive members of the Commission shall be ap-
pointed for original terms of one, two, three, four and five years respec-
tively, and thereafter for terms of four years each. No appointive member
shall hold office for more than two terms.

§ 3. The State Health Commissioner, the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, the Director of the Department of Welfare and Institutions,
the Commissioner of Labor, the Commissioner of the Unemployment Com-
pensation Commission and the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene and
Hospitals, shall serve without additional compensation. Their traveling
and other necessary expenses as members of the Commission shall be paid
from available funds appropriated to their respective departments or
agencies. When any ex-officio member is unable to attend any meeting of
the Commission, he may designate an employee of the department or agency
of which he is head to act in his place and stead, but without the right to
vote as a member of the Commission.

§ 4. The Chairman of the Commission shall be paid at the rate of
eight thousand dollars per annum. The five appointive members shall
receive as compensation for their services the sum of ten dollars for each
day spent, and shall be reimbursed for their necessary traveling and other
expenses incurred, in the performance of their duties.

§ 5. It shall be the duty of the Commission

(a) To study the economic and physical condition of the residents in
the Commonwealth sixty-five years of age and over, hereinafter referred
to as the aging, and the employment, medical, educational, recreational and
housing facilities available to them, with the view of determining the
needs and problems of such persons;

(b) To determine the services and facilities, private and governmental
and State and local, provided for and available to the aging and to recom-
mend to the appropriate person or persons such coordination of and changes
in such services and facilities as will make them of greater benefit to the
aging and more responsive to their needs;

(c) To submit to the Governor each year, a report of its findings, ac-
complishments and recommendations.

2. There is hereby appropriated for the purposes of the Commission the
sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for each year of the biennium begin-
ning July one, nineteen hundred fifty-eight.