(BILL 17-0157)
 No. 5332

 (Approved March 22, 1988)

To Accept the Report of the Select Committee on Status and Federal Relations Dated
January 14, 1985, Prepared Pursuant to Resolution No. 1132, Adopted February 7,
1984, Fifteenth Legislature of the Virgin Islands; To Create a Commission on Status
and Federal Relations; and, To Hold a Referendum in November, 1989, To Enable the
Voters of the Virgin Islands To Choose Between Statehood, Independence, Free
Association, Incorporated Territory, Status Quo, Commonwealth and Compact of
 Federal Relations; and for Other Purposes.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Virgin Islands:

 Section 1. The Report of the Select Committee on Status and Federal
Relations, dated January 14, 1985, which was prepared pursuant to Resolution No.
1132, adopted February 7, 1984, by the Fifteenth Legislature of the Virgin Islands, (a
copy of which is attached hereto, and by reference made a part hereof), is hereby
accepted by the Government of the Virgin Islands.

 Section 2. (a) There is hereby created the Commission on Status and
Federal Relations (hereafter "Commission") which shall consist of fifteen (15)
members, as follows: seven (7) each appointed by the Governor and the President of
the Legislature; plus the Presiding Judge of the Territorial Court who shall be a
statutory member.

 (b) The Governor and the President of the Legislature shall each designate a
co-chairman of the Commission from among the members appointed by them and the
Presiding Judge of the Territorial Court shall serve as Secretary of the Commission.

 (c) Nothing in this Section shall preclude either the Governor or the President
of the Legislature from appointing themselves to serve as members of the
Commission.

 (d) The Commission shall devise and execute a comprehensive program of
public information and education to enable the voters of the Virgin Islands to render
informed judgments in the referendum on political status and federal relations
preferences to be held November 14, 1989, as provided for in Section 3 of this Act.

 (e) The Commission shall:
 (i) prepare a summary of the Report of the Select Committee on Status
and Federal Relations referred to in Section 1 of this Act, and section-by-section
analyses of the various status and federal relations options contained therein, and
distribute same throughout the Virgin Islands;