Missouri Revised Statutes Title XI. Education and Libraries § 173.265. Advisory committee established--members, appointment, qualifications, terms--program funding

1. There is hereby created an “International Economic Development Exchange Program Advisory Committee”, which shall consist of five members, to be appointed by the director of the department of economic development. The committee shall include two persons associated with institutions of higher education in this state and one resident business person who deals with international business. Of the five members, all shall be residents of the state, at least one member shall be a resident of one of the two largest metropolitan areas of this state, and at least one member shall not be a resident of one of the two largest metropolitan areas of this state. The members shall serve three-year terms. The committee shall meet only in Jefferson City. The committee shall review the administration of the international economic development exchange program by the department of economic development. The director of the department of economic development shall make an annual report of the program's activities to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tem of the senate. Members of the committee shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.

2. The program may receive grants, loans and other funding from the federal government and from private sources. In addition, the general assembly may appropriate up to one hundred thousand dollars in each fiscal year for the program; however, such appropriation shall not exceed an amount equal to the amounts contributed to the program from nongovernmental sources.