§12651a Board of Directors

Summary

Creates a Board of Directors for the Corporation made up of 15 appointed members and several nonvoting federal officials. One appointed member must be between 16 and 25 years old and have served in or supervised a school- or community-based service program. All appointed members must be chosen by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The Board should include people with lots of volunteer or state government experience, experts in human, educational, environmental, or public safety services, and people who reflect different races, ages, genders, disabilities, and viewpoints. Members from any one political party may not exceed 50 percent of the appointed members plus one more. The Secretaries of Education, Health and Human Services, Labor, Interior, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Defense, the Attorney General, the Director of the Peace Corps, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chief Executive Officer serve on the Board without voting. The President names the first Chair. After that, the Board elects its Chair and a Vice Chair from among its members and may choose other officers. Appointed members serve 5-year terms. If a seat opens, the President fills it for the rest of that term. A member whose term ends may stay up to 1 year until a successor takes office.