State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Mississippi > Title-31 > 29 > 31-29-27§ 31-29-27. Institute for Technology Development Oversight Committee; members; powers and duties; annual report; confidentiality; compensation.
The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each appoint three (3) members of their respective legislative houses to serve as members of the Institute for Technology Development Oversight Committee. The members of such committee shall be entitled (a) to attend meetings of the Institute for Technology Development Board of Directors, (b) to receive all budgets, reports, audits and all financial and other information distributed to the directors of the Institute for Technology Development, (c) to meet and confer with the directors and staff of the Institute for Technology Development and (d) to perform such other activities as may be necessary or proper in discharging their responsibilities of oversight and liaison with their respective houses of the Legislature. The members of the committee shall have no jurisdiction or vote on any matter within the jurisdiction of the Institute for Technology Development. The members of the committee shall prepare and submit an annual report to the Legislature no later than December 15 of each calendar year setting forth the activities and financial condition of the Institute for Technology Development and their perspective and comments on the activities of the Institute for Technology Development. The report shall also contain recommendations regarding policy or legislative changes for consideration by the Legislature. The members of the Institute for Technology Development Oversight Committee shall be bound by the same limitations as to confidentiality of information regarding products, processes or the internal affairs of private businesses, as are imposed upon the officers and directors of the Institute for Technology Development. When the Legislature is not in session, members shall be paid per diem and all actual and necessary expenses, including mileage expenses, from their respective contingent expense funds at the rate authorized for committee meetings when the Legislature is not in session; however, no per diem and expenses will be paid when the Legislature is in session. The terms of the members of the oversight committee shall expire at the end of their terms of office.
Sources: Laws, 1990, ch. 503, § 2, eff from and after passage (approved March 31, 1990).
