HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 17


(By Delegates Burk, Trump, Facemyer, Miller, Ashley,

Riggs, L. White, Henderson, Walters, Anderson,

Wallace, Oliverio, Richards, Nesbitt, Evans, Harrison,

Pulliam, Talbott and Huffman)



Amending Rule No. 91a of the Rules of the House relating to time limit on introduction of bills.

Resolved by the House of Delegates:

That effective the 11th day of January, 1995, Rule No. 91a of the House of Delegates be amended to read as follows:
Time Limit on Introducing

91a. No House joint resolution and no House bill, other than a House supplementary appropriation bill or a House bill originating in a House standing or select committee, shall be introduced in the House after the fiftieth forty-first day of a regular session unless permission to introduce the joint resolution or bill be given by a House resolution, setting out the title to the joint resolution or bill and adopted by a two-thirds vote of the House members present. The fiftieth forty-first day of the regular session held in the year one thousand nine hundred eighty-one ninety-seven and every fourth year thereafter shall be computed from and include the second Wednesday of February of such years. When permission is requested to introduce a joint resolution or bill under provisions of this rule, quadruplicate copies of the joint resolution or bill shall accompany the resolution when introduced.