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PUBLIC LAW 93-641-JAN. 4, 1975

[88 STAT.

systems plan and annual implementation plan developed by the agency, and a listing of the agency's income, expenditures, assets, and liabilities, and ( III) make the report readily available to the residents of the health service area and the various communications media serving such area; " (vi) shall reimburse its members for their reasonable costs incurred in attending meetings of the governing body; " (vii) shall meet at least once in each calendar quarter of a year and shall meet at least two additional times in a year unless its executive committee meets at least twice in that year; and "(viii) shall (I) conduct its business meetings in public, ( II) give adequate notice to the public of such meetings, and ( III) make its records and data available, upon request, to the public. The governing body (and executive committee (if any)) of a health systems agency shall act only by vote of a majority of its members present and voting at a meeting called upon adequate notice to all of its members and at which a quorum is in attendance. A quorum for a governing body and executive committee shall be not less than one-half of its members. " (C) COMPOSITION.—The membership of the governing body and the executive committee (if any) of an agency shall meet the following requirements: "(i) A majority (but not more than 60 per centum of the members) shall be residents of the health service area served by the entity who are consumers of health care and who are not (nor within the twelve months preceding appointment been) providers of health care and who are broadly representative of the social, economic, linguistic and racial populations, geographic areas of the health service area, and major purchasers of health care. "(ii) The remainder of the members shall be residents of the health service area served by the agency who are providers of health care and who represent (I) physicians (particuliifly practicing physicians), dentists, nurses, and other health professionals, ( II) health care institutions (particularly hospitals, long-term care facilities, and health maintenance organizations), ( III) health care insurers, (IV) health professional schools, and (V) the allied health professions. Not less than one-third of the providers of health care who are members of the governing Dody or executive committee of a health systems agency shall be direct providers of health care (as described in section 1531(3)). "(iii) The membership shall— " (I) include (either through consumer or provider members) public elected officials and other representatives of governmental authorities in the agency's health service area and representatives of public and private agencies in the area concerned with health, " ( II) include a percentage of individuals who reside in nonmetropolitan areas within the health service area which percentage is equal to the percentage of residents of the area who reside in nonmetropolitan areas, and " ( III) if the health systems agency serves an area in which there is located one or more hospitals or other health care facilities of the Veterans' Administration, include, as an ex officio member, an individual whom the Chief Medical Director of the Veterans' Administration

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