Authority: Discretionary Inclusion.

A. This appropriation includes funding to support 238 instructional and administrative faculty positions and for administrative and classified positions which provide services, through internal service agreements, to the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority.

B. Notwithstanding § 23.1-2403, Code of Virginia, or any other provision of the law to the contrary, the president of Virginia Commonwealth University may appoint joint or separate officers to serve in the roles of vice president for health sciences of Virginia Commonwealth University and chief executive officer of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority. The president shall report any such appointment to the board or boards of the university and the authority at the appropriate board meeting following such appointment. The board of visitors of the university may confirm, respectively, the appointment of the senior vice president and of the chief executive officer by a majority vote of the members of the board of visitors present. The board of the authority may confirm the appointment of the chief executive officer by majority vote of the members present. Confirmation of any such appointment shall not require a joint meeting of the boards. The president of the university shall have the authority to appoint one or more individuals to these offices effective upon passage of this Act.