<br><br>45.790 Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee -- Membership -- Meetings <br>-- Vote required to act. <br>(1) There is created a permanent subcommittee of the Legislative Research <br>Commission to be known as the Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee. <br>The subcommittee shall be composed of eight (8) members appointed as follows: <br>three (3) members of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate; one (1) <br>member of the minority party in the Senate appointed by the Minority Floor Leader <br>in the Senate; three (3) members of the House of Representatives appointed by the <br>Speaker of the House of Representatives; and one (1) member of the minority party <br>in the House of Representatives appointed by the Minority Floor Leader in the <br>House of Representatives. The members of the subcommittee shall serve for terms <br>of two (2) years, and the members appointed from each chamber shall elect one (1) <br>member from their chamber to serve as co-chair. Any vacancy which may occur in <br>the membership of the subcommittee shall be filled by the appointing authority who <br>made the original appointment. <br>(2) On an alternating basis, each co-chair shall have the first option to set the monthly <br>meeting date. A monthly meeting may be canceled by agreement of both co-chairs. <br>The co-chairs shall have joint responsibilities for subcommittee meeting agendas <br>and presiding at subcommittee meetings. The members of the subcommittee shall <br>be compensated for attending meetings as provided in KRS 7.090(3). <br>(3) Any professional, clerical, or other employees required by the subcommittee shall <br>be provided in accordance with KRS 7.090(4) and (5). <br>(4) A majority of the entire membership of the Capital Projects and Bond Oversight <br>Committee shall constitute a quorum, and all actions of the subcommittee shall be <br>by vote of a majority of its entire membership. <br>Effective: March 31, 2003 <br>History: Amended 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 185, sec. 4, effective March 31, 2003. -- Created <br>1979 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 4, sec. 5, effective July 1, 1980. <br>Legislative Research Commission Note (3/31/2003). Under the authority of KRS <br>7.136, the Reviser of Statutes has changed two clearly erroneous references to <br>"committee" in subsection (2) of this statute to "subcommittee." <br>Legislative Research Commission Note (6/21/93). The name of the Capital <br>Construction and Equipment Purchase Oversight Committee was changed to the <br>Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee in 1988. See 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 145. <br>That same name change has been made in this statute pursuant to KRS 7.136(2). <br><br>