§18-2F-3 Share in your future commission established; composition of commission; duties and responsibilities. - West Virginia Statutes

§18-2F-3. Share in your future commission established; composition of commission; duties and responsibilities.

There is hereby created in state government, under the supervision of the state board, a commission on educational incentives to secondary education students to be known as as the share in your future commission.

The share in your future commission shall be composed of nine members who shall serve without salary or expenses, as follows:

(a) The state superintendent, the chancellor of the state college system and the chancellor of the university of West Virginia system, ex officio, or their designees;

(b) A member of the joint commission on vocational education, ex officio, or his or her designee; and

(c) Five members to be appointed by the governor as follows:

(1) A representative of the business community with a demonstrated interest in education;

(2) A representative of labor with a demonstrated interest in education; and

(3) Three representatives of the general public.

Of the five members appointed by the governor, no more than three may be members of the same political party and all shall serve at the will and pleasure of the governor.

The share in your future commission shall meet no later than the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-one. The commission shall conduct a study and report to the Legislature on the first day of the regular session in the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-two. The commission's report shall include any further legislative recommendations necessary to carry out the provisions of this article, whereby students in grade seven through grade eleven may earn shares, through appropriate conduct and accomplishment, in a scholarship fund to be used to pay student costs at accredited state institutions of higher education, post-secondary vocational education programs and higher educational institutions, all as defined in section two, article one, chapter eighteen-b of this code, and other approved and accredited participating post-secondary educational programs located in West Virginia.

The share in your future commission shall encourage contributions to the program and encourage private, proprietary educational institutions, accredited by a national or regional accrediting agency or association recognized by the United States department of education and which provide training at a campus located in this state to participate.