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committee, the floor leader of the minority party and eleven addi-
tional members to be appointed by the Speaker of the House and
approved by a majority vote of the House.

Said ten appointees from the Senate and eleven from the House
of Delegates shall be appointed during and after the 1967 Session
of the General Assembly and during each regular session thereafter
to serve until the beginning of the next regular session, or appoint-
ment of their successors. As far as possible such appointment shall
be so distributed as to make the Council representative of all sec-
tions of the State and of the relative party membership in each
house. The President of the Senate [shall be chairman of the Coun-
cil,] and the Speaker of the House shall be [vice-chairman.] Co-
chairmen. The Director of the State Department of Legislative
Reference shall be the secretary and the director of research of
the Council.

(3)    Filling vacancies.—Any vacancy occurring in the member-
ship of the Council other than in the offices of [chairman and
vice-chairman] the Co-chairmen while the General Assembly is not
is session shall be filled by appointment of the President of the
Senate from among the members of the Senate, if the vacancy is
caused by the resignation or death of a member of the Council from
the Senate, and by the Speaker of the House of Delegates, if the
vacancy is caused by the resignation or death of a member of the
Council from the House of Delegates, the appointments to be made
in accordance with the provisions of subsections (1) and (2). If
the vacancy in the membership of the Council is caused by the
resignation or death of either of the [chairman or vice-chairman,]
Co-chairmen, the vacancy in such membership shall be filled by the
members of the Council from the membership of the Senate or the
House of Delegates, as the case may be. In case of vacancy in the
office of either of the Co-chairmen [chairman, the vice-chairman
shall become chairman and] the members of the Council shall elect
one of its members [vice-chairman] Co chairman in his stead; and
in the case of a vacancy in the office of both [chairman and vice-
chairman] Co chairman the members of the Council shall elect [one]
two of its members Co chairman. [chairman and one of its mem-
bers vice-chairman.]

(4)    WITH RESPECT TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
AND ITS COMMITTEES, THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES EACH
SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING ANY DECISIONS
WHICH RELATE TO OR AFFECT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE
MEMBERS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE BODIES ON THE COUN-
CIL AND ITS COMMITTEES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO, THE MAKING OF APPOINTMENTS OF OFFICERS AND
MEMBERS OF COMMITTEES, THE SETTING OF DATES,
TIMES, AND PLACES OF MEETINGS OF COMMITTEES, AND
EXCEPT THAT TRAVEL AND OTHER LEGISLATIVE EX-
PENSES OF MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND ITS COMMIT-
TEES SHALL BE APPROVED BY JOINT ACTION OF THE
PRESIDENT AND THE SPEAKER.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved May 26, 1972.