Minority Officers Liaison Council

1. Basic Eligibility Requirements: Members must be full-time CC or CS personnel, and at the time they are nominated and appointed to the MOLC meet eligibility requirements for initial appointment to the MOLC and personnel systems. Each minority officer group is responsible for designating two (2) representatives to serve on the MOLC. Currently, the four groups are:

a. American Indian/Alaskan Native Commissioned Officers Advisory Committee (AI/ANCOAC)

b. Asian Pacific American Officers Committee (APAOC) c. Black Commissioned Officers Advisory Group (BCOAG) d. Hispanic Officers Advisory Committee (HOAC)

2. Staff from the Office of the Surgeon General and the Division of Commissioned Personnel (DCP) may not serve on the MOLC as a voting member.

Size of the MOLC: the MOLC shall have no fewer than 4 and no more than 8 voting members.

4. Organizational Representation: In order to provide the range of experiences and perspectives necessary for addressing issues before the MOLC, every effort must be made to have the broadest representation possible among all agencies that are routinely staffed by Commissioned Corps Officers of MOLC.

5. Geographic Considerations: the MOLC will have, as voting members, at least two individuals whose regular duty station is geographically removed by a distance of 75 or more miles from the Washington Metropolitan Area.

6. Gender and Minority Representation: MOLC will be constituted by representatives of the established and recognized minority officer groups. The minority officer groups are defined as any group sanctioned by the OSG to represent a minority constituency. Every effort will be made to assure that the MOLC does not consist entirely of women or entirely of men.

7. Personnel System: The MOLC will not consist entirely of CC or entirely of CS personnel.

8. Professional Seniority: The MOLC will have as a voting member a minimum of one individual who at the time of appointment to the MOLC has less than 5 years of professional experience.

9. Professional Discipline Composition: Cognizant of the fact that the MOLC is structured around the PHS CC defined professional categories which encompass more than one major professional discipline, to the extent possible the MOLC should contain at least one voting member who possesses the requisite credentials for each of the respective sub-disciplines that make up the category.

10. Ex Officio Members (non-voting): The Chief Professional Officer is an ex-officio member of the MOLC [see IX (1)]. The former chair may serve 1 additional year as an ex-officio member of the MOLC [see VIII (3)]. The MOLC may identify other individuals and request that they serve as ex-officio members.

11. Liaison Members (non-voting): the MOLC may identify individuals to serve in a liaison capacity to provide information or assist with activities, e.g. staff from the OSG or DCP.