As Amended
SEC. 5-3-55. Membership and organization of committee.
The committee shall be composed of five (5) members from the senate and five (5) members from the house of representatives, one (1) from each of the congressional districts of the State of Mississippi, to be appointed by the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of representatives for a term concurrent with their term in their respective house. For the remainder of the present term, the lieutenant governor and speaker shall make their respective appointments within fifteen (15) days after sine die adjournment of the 1973 Regular Session; and for each full four (4) year term thereafter, the lieutenant governor and speaker shall make their appointments within fifteen (15) days after the first calendar day of the regular session in the first year of such four (4) year term. No member of the committee shall serve as a member of the commission of budget and accounting, the state building commission, the Mississippi Classification Commission or any other state governmental board or commission. The term of each member shall be concurrent with his term of office.
The committee shall meet no later than ten (10) days after the final day of the 1973 Legislature for the purpose of organizing by electing from the membership a chairman, vice-chairman and secretary.
SOURCES: Laws, 1973, ch. 331, Sec. 3, eff from and after passage (approved March 19, 1973).