§29-2-200. Creation; composition; meetings; compensation; powers and duties.

(a) The Legislative Building Authority is created as a continuing permanent committee of the Legislature.

(b) The authority shall consist of three members of the Senate appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and three members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

(c) The membership of the authority shall be inclusive and reflect the racial, gender, geographic, urban and rural, and economic diversity of the state.

(d) Initial members of the authority shall be appointed after June 14, 2007. Thereafter members of the authority shall be appointed by the incoming President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the incoming Speaker of the House of Representatives after the election of such officers for each legislative term. Members shall serve a term concurrent with the legislative term of office.

(e) Members of the authority may serve on the authority during the term in which appointed, and if reelected to the same house without a break in service to that house, during the succeeding legislative term until a successor on the authority is appointed.

(f) Vacancies shall be filled by the appointing authority who appointed the vacating member for the remainder of the vacated term.

(g) The initial meeting of the authority for each legislative term shall be called by either the President Pro Tempore of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The authority shall elect a chair and a vice chair at such initial meeting and adopt appropriate procedures.

(h) Each member of the authority shall be entitled to his or her regular legislative compensation, his or her per diem, and travel expenses for each day he or she attends a meeting of the authority. Upon requisitions signed by the chair of the authority, these payments shall be paid out of any funds appropriated to the use of the Legislature by means of warrants drawn by the state Comptroller on the State Treasury. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no member shall receive additional legislative compensation or per diem when the Legislature is in session or if a member is being paid any other payments on the same dates for attendance on other state business.

(i) The powers and duties of the authority shall include all of the following:

(1) Accept title to State House property.

(2) Provide for the management and supervision, administration, improvement, equipping, operation, and maintenance of such State House property.

(3) Take any other action considered necessary by the authority to ensure sufficient space and facilities for the functions of the Legislative Department.

(Act 2007-487, p. 1035, §1.)