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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="12-201" title_number="12" title_name="Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Program and Trust" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Establishment; Powers and Duties of Board">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>There is a Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board is a body politic and corporate and is an instrumentality of the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Except as provided in subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of this subsection, the Board is not subject to any law, including § 6–106 of the State Government Article, that affects governmental units.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The Board is subject to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the Open Meetings Act; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the Public Information Act.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The Board and its employees are subject to the public ethics law.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Board consists of the following members:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the State Treasurer, or the State Treasurer’s designee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the Secretary of Labor, or the Secretary’s designee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the Comptroller, or the Comptroller’s designee; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>nine members with expertise in retirement programs and benefits, investments, financial systems and controls, or small business, appointed as follows:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>three members, appointed by the Governor;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>three members, appointed by the President of the Senate; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>three members, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The term of a member is 4 years.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The terms of members are staggered as required by the terms provided for members of the Board on July 1, 2016.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>At the end of a term a member continues to serve until a successor is appointed and qualifies.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A member who is appointed after a term has begun serves only for the rest of the term and until a successor is appointed and qualifies.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Board shall elect a chair from among the members of the Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The appointing authority may remove a member whom the appointing authority appointed, for incompetence or misconduct.</text>
  </level>
</section>
