[§21E-2]  Establishment of the jointlegislative management committee; members; terms; vacancies.  (a) There is established within the legislature a bipartisan joint legislativemanagement committee to supervise, develop policy, and coordinate activitiesfor all legislative service agency staff services.

(b)  The committee shall consist of tenmembers:  five shall be representatives appointed by the speaker of the houseof representatives, including the chairperson of the house committee onlegislative management and at least one member of the minority party, and fiveshall be senators appointed by the president of the senate, including thechairperson of the senate committee on legislative management and at least onemember of the minority party.  The appointing authority of each house shallmake and announce the appointment or reappointment of members of the committeeno later than fifteen days after the convening of the first regular session ofeach legislature.  The chairpersons of the house and senate legislativemanagement committees shall serve as co-chairs of the joint legislativemanagement committee.

(c)  Members shall serve for the duration ofthe legislature during which they are appointed.  In the event the appointingauthority of either house has not appointed or reappointed members of thecommittee within fifteen days after the convening of the first regular sessionof the legislature, the incumbent members shall continue serving on thecommittee until successors are appointed.  When a member of the committee filesa declaration of candidacy for an elective office other than that of member ofeither house of the legislature, and the member has not resigned frommembership on the committee, the member's committee membership shall terminateon the date of filing.

(d)  When a vacancy occurs in the membership ofthe committee, the appointing authority of the house incurring the vacancyshall fill the vacancy within thirty days.  A legislator appointed to fill avacancy shall be a member of the same political party as the member vacatingthe seat.

(e)  Members of the committee shall servewithout pay, but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses,including travel expenses incurred in carrying out their duties. [L1990, c 127, pt of §2]