H. R. 1 -- "Authorizing printing and distribution of Acts of the Legislature, Journals of the House of Delegates and Index to Special Acts."
Resolved by the House of Delegates:
That under authority of section thirteen, article one, chapter four of the Code of West Virginia, the Clerk of the House of Delegates is hereby authorized to have printed not to exceed 500 copies of the advance acts of the 1997 and 1998 regular sessions of the Legislature bound in paper binding and to include therein the acts of any extraordinary sessions which have not been printed.
The Clerk of the Senate shall be furnished sufficient copies of said advance acts to supply each member of the Senate with five copies, as the same may be requested, and the Clerk of the House of Delegates shall forward five copies to each member of the House of Delegates, upon request of each such member. The Clerk of the House shall provide copies of said acts for distribution as provided by section six, article eight, chapter fifty-one of the code insofar as such distribution is practicable.
The Clerk of the House of Delegates is also authorized to publish not to exceed 500 copies of said acts, bound in buckram, and not to exceed 250 copies of the Journal of the House of Delegates for the first and second regular sessions of the 73rd Legislature and include therein the unpublished Journals of any extraordinary sessions. In addition, there shall be printed twelve official copies of any Journal published, properly bound and designated. A copy of the Journal and five copies of said acts shall be furnished to each member of the Legislature, upon request of each such member. The Clerk shall retain sufficient copies of the buckram bound acts to supply legislative offices and the remaining copies shall be turned over to the Department of Administration, for sale by that department.
Additionally, the Clerk of the House of Delegates is authorized to compile and publish an index to the Special Acts of the Legislature covering the years 1863 to the present, to be bound in buckram, in an amount not to exceed 1,000 copies of such index. The Clerk of the House of Delegates shall furnish to the Clerk of the Senate sufficient copies of said index to supply each member of the Senate with a copy thereof, as the same may be requested, and the Clerk of the House shall provide a copy of such index to aeach member of the House of Delegates, upon request of each such member.
For the work required in indexing, printing and distributing said acts and in the publication of said Journal of the House of Delegates and for completing other work of the session, the Speaker is hereby authorized to appoint such persons as he may deem necessary to perform technical, clerical, stenographic, custodial and other services required by the House of Delegates.
The Speaker shall certify a list of persons entitled to compensation under authority of this resolution to the Clerk of the House of Delegates, and the Clerk shall draw his requisition in favor of such persons at per diems or at monthly salaries, which shall be paid from the Per Diem of Officers and Employees Fund or the Contingent Fund of the House of Delegates.