HOUSE RESOLUTION 13
(By Delegates Webb, Harrison, H. White,
Louisos, Walters, Overington and Pulliam)

Adding House Rule No. 105a, relating to requiring that bills imposing a tax or license fee and bills increasing the effective rate of any tax levied or fee imposed may not be enacted unless two thirds of the elected members of the House of Delegates vote in the affirmative for passage.

Resolved by the House of Delegates:
That House Rule No. 105a be added to read as follows:
Passage Of Bills Containing Tax Or Fee Increase
105a. Beginning with the Legislature for the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight, each bill imposing a tax or license fee or increasing the effective rate of any tax levied or fee imposed may not be enacted unless two thirds of the members elected to the House vote in the affirmative for passage.
The House may, by a simple majority vote of the members present and voting in the affirmative, enact a bill to impose or increase a tax or fee as necessary to ensure that funds are available to pay the principal and interest on state debts when due and payable or a bill designed to bring state tax laws into conformity with federal tax laws. The House may not enact any other bill to increase taxes or fees by simple majority vote.

NOTE: The purpose of this resolution is to require that bills imposing a tax or license fee and bills increasing the effective rate of any tax levied or fee imposed may not be enacted unless two thirds of the elected members of the House of Delegates vote in the affirmative for passage.