In subsection (a), the text of 36:278(e) is omitted as obsolete. In paragraph (2), the words “Secretary of Education” and “Department of Education” are substituted for “Chief of the Agricultural Education Service, Office of Education, Federal Security Agency” and “Agricultural Education Service, Office of Education, Federal Security Agency”, respectively, in section 8(a) of the Act of August 30, 1950 (ch. 823, 64 Stat. 565), because of sections 5 and 8 of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953 (5 App. U.S.C.) and 20:3441 and 3507.

2019—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 116–7, § 5(1)(A), substituted “FFA” for “corporation” in two places.

Subsec. (a)(2), (3). Pub. L. 116–7, § 5(1)(B), added pars. (2) and (3) and struck out former pars. (2) and (3) which read as follows:

“(2) The board consists of the Secretary of Education, four staff members in the Department of Education, and four State supervisors of agriculture education. The Secretary is chairman of the board.

“(3) The term of office of the directors and the method of selecting the directors (except ex officio directors) are as provided in the bylaws.”

Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 116–7, § 5(1)(C), substituted “constitution or bylaws of the FFA” for “bylaws” and “chair” for “chairman”.

Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 116–7, § 5(2), (3), added subsecs. (b) and (c) and struck out former subsec. (b) which read as follows: “Governing Committee.—The board may designate the chairman of the board and two members of the chairman’s staff as a governing committee. When the board is not in session, the governing committee has the powers of the board subject to the board’s direction and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers that require it.”