Authority: Title 12.1, Code of Virginia; Article IV, Section 14 and Article IX, Constitution of Virginia.

A. Operational costs for this program shall be paid solely from charges to agency programs.

B. Out of the amounts for this Item, shall be paid the annual salary of the chairman, $171,929 from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2018, and for the other two Commissioners of the State Corporation Commission, each at $170,046 from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2018.

C. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 13.1-775.1, Code of Virginia, the State Corporation Commission shall continue the following annual registration fees for domestic and foreign corporations. The new annual rates shall be $100 for every foreign and domestic corporation authorized to do business in the Commonwealth whose number of authorized shares is 5,000 shares or less. The initial filing fee, totaling no more than $100, for those businesses that have been started by a matriculated student at an authorized public Virginia institution of higher education shall be waived. Those businesses shall be required to pay subsequent annual registration fees. Any such corporation whose number of authorized shares is more than 5,000 shall pay an annual registration fee of $100 plus $30 for each 5,000 shares or fraction thereof in excess of 5,000 up to a maximum of $1,700. The commission shall deposit these funds into a special fund and transfer three-fourths of the receipts to the general fund semiannually.