KRS 7.103: Interim joint committees -- Monthly meeting schedule -- Commission

authorized to adopt new interim joint committee structure.

(1) (a) The monthly meeting schedule for interim joint committees of the Legislative

Research Commission shall begin on June 1 and continue through December

1 of each year. During that period, upon agreement of the co-chairs, an interim

joint committee shall have the authority to meet according to the most recent

regular monthly meeting schedule approved by a majority of the entir e

membership of the Commission. With an affirmative vote of a majority of its

entire membership, the Commission may alter the beginning and concluding

dates of authorization granted in this subsection for regular monthly meetings

of interim joint committee s during the current calendar year, authorize any

additional meeting of any interim joint committee, or disapprove any meeting

of any interim joint committee.

(b) The co-chairs of each interim joint committee shall have joint responsibility

for approving m eeting agendas and presiding at meetings. If the co -chairs of

any interim joint committee cannot agree on convening a monthly meeting,

each co -chair, with the agreement of the presiding officer of the co -chair's

chamber, may convene a meeting of the interi m joint committee members

who are members of the co -chair's chamber. If such a meeting is convened, it

shall be on the regular monthly meeting date of the interim joint committee,

and it shall be staffed by the Commission. Not more than three (3) such

meetings shall be convened by each co-chair in a calendar year.

(c) Subcommittees of interim joint committees shall be authorized to meet

according to the policies and practices of the Commission.

(2) For purposes of this section, "interim joint committees" means those subcommittees

of the Commission which are constituted by combining the membership of Senate

and House standing committees pursuant to the most recent interim joint committee

structure approved by a majority of the entire membership of the Commission. After

March 31, 2003, until such time as the Commission, by an affirmative vote of a

majority of its entire membership, adopts a new interim joint committee structure,

the most recent interim joint committee structure adopted by the Commission shall

be considered to include an Interim Joint Committee on Seniors, Veterans, Military

Affairs, and Public Protection, consisting of the members of the Senate Standing

Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection and the House

Standing Committee on Seniors, Military Affairs, and Public Safety.