3-15-109 - Termination of committee.
3-15-109. Termination of committee.
(a) The committee created by this part shall continue only until the operations of the department of correction have improved substantially so that such oversight is no longer needed. It is the intent of the general assembly that improvement be accomplished in a timely fashion.
(b) To these ends, the committee created by this part shall be subject to termination every four (4) years from June 30, 2008, unless the committee is continued by the general assembly by a joint resolution during regular session.
(c) The respective speakers shall reappoint or appoint new members to the oversight committee for each subsequent regular session of the general assembly for the duration of the committee. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, this chapter shall not be construed to require the speakers to appoint more than one (1) member from any standing committee of the general assembly when making reappointments or appointments to any select committee statutorily created after 1985; and, furthermore, to assure broadly based representation, the speakers may increase the total membership of any such committee by not more than one (1) senator and/or not more than one (1) representative if, as a result of such action, the committee will consist of a total of twenty (20) members evenly balanced between senators and representatives.
(d) The office of the comptroller of the treasury shall conduct a performance evaluation of the select oversight committee on corrections prior to its termination.
[Acts 1985 (1st E.S.), ch. 5, § 34; T.C.A., § 3-15-108; Acts 1990, ch. 608, §§ 1, 2; 1994, ch. 625, §§ 1, 2; 1995, ch. 10, § 2; 1997, ch. 108, § 1; 2002, ch. 611, § 1; 2006, ch. 635, § 1; 2008, ch. 807, § 1.]