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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="2-403" title_number="2" title_name="General Assembly" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Legislative Policy Committee">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Legislative Policy Committee consists of the following 28 members:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>from the Senate:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the President;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the President Pro Tem;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the Majority Leader;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the Chair of the Budget and Taxation Committee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>the Chair of the Committee on Education, Energy, and the Environment;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>the Chair of the Finance Committee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>the Chair of the Judicial Proceedings Committee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>the Minority Leader; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <level label="1">
          <text>6 other Senators, appointed by the President and approved by majority vote of the Senate; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>if a Senator simultaneously serves in 2 of the positions set forth in items (ii) through (vii), inclusive, of this item, 7 other Senators, appointed by the President and approved by majority vote of the Senate; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>from the House:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Speaker;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Speaker Pro Tem;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the Majority Leader;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the Chair of the Appropriations Committee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>the Chair of the Health Committee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>the Chair of the Economic Matters Committee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>the Chair of the Environment and Transportation Committee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>the Chair of the Government, Labor, and Elections Committee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>the Chair of the Judiciary Committee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>the Chair of the Ways and Means Committee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xi">
        <text>the Minority Leader; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>3 other Delegates, appointed by the Speaker and approved by majority vote of the House; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>if a Delegate simultaneously serves in 2 of the positions set forth in items (ii) through (x), inclusive, of this item, 4 other Delegates, appointed by the Speaker and approved by majority vote of the House.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>As far as possible, the Senators appointed by the President, under subsection (a)(1)(ix) of this section, shall be representative of the various sections and interests of the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>As far as possible, the Delegates appointed by the Speaker, under subsection (a)(2)(xii) of this section, shall be representative of the various sections and interests of the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
