32.1-111.12:01 - Financial Assistance and Review Committee; appointment; terms; duties
§ 32.1-111.12:01. Financial Assistance and Review Committee; appointment;terms; duties.
A. For the purposes of administering the Virginia Rescue Squads AssistanceFund as provided in § 32.1-111.12, there is hereby established the FinancialAssistance and Review Committee. The Committee shall be composed of sixmembers who shall be representatives of the regions encompassed by theemergency medical services councils and appointed by the State EmergencyMedical Services Advisory Board. To ensure that each regional emergencymedical services council is provided an opportunity to serve on theCommittee, the Board of Health shall promulgate by regulation, afterreceiving the Advisory Board's recommendation, a cycle which provides forrotating geographic representation among the councils.
B. Members serving on the Financial Assistance and Review Committee onJanuary 1, 1996, shall complete their current terms of office. Thereafter,appointments shall be made for terms of three years or the unexpired portionsthereof in a manner to preserve, insofar as possible, the representation ofthe emergency medical services councils. No member may serve more than twosuccessive terms. The chairman shall be elected from the membership of theCommittee for a term of one year and shall be eligible for reelection. TheCommittee shall meet at least four times annually at the call of the chairmanor the Commissioner.
C. The Financial Assistance and Review Committee shall:
1. Administer the Rescue Squads Assistance Fund in accordance with the rulesand regulations of the State Board of Health as shall be established for theFund;
2. Review the Rescue Squads Assistance Fund grant applications from eligibleemergency medical services agencies and make recommendations on the fundingof such grant applications to the Commissioner of Health; and
3. Report biannually, after each funding cycle, the number of grantapplications received, the total costs of grant applications funded, thenumber of grant applications denied funding, the total costs of grantapplications denied funding, and the nature of the denied requests and thereasons for denying funding, to the State Emergency Medical Services AdvisoryBoard and the Commissioner.
(1996, c. 998.)