Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board; powers and duties, historically underrepresented students.

Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board; purposeand duties; historically underrepresented students. Expands thepurpose of the Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Advisory Board to include promoting the participationof historically underrepresented students, as defined in the bill,in primary and secondary schools in STEM education. The bill expandsthe duties of the Board to effectuate this additional purpose. Finally,the bill increases from 16 to 24 the nonlegislative citizen membershipof the Board and provides that the eight additional members be appointedby the chairmen of the Virginia African American Advisory Board, Virginia-AsianAdvisory Board, Latino Advisory Board, Council on Women, VirginiaLGBTQ+ Advisory Board, Virginia Indian Advisory Board on State Recognition,Office of New Americans Advisory Board, and Virginia Board for People with Disabilities, with each chairman appointing one member representingthe population served by his advisory board subject to the approvalof a majority of the members of his advisory board.