HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 112
(By Delegates Sumner, Eldridge, Overington,
Louisos, Lane, Tansill, Walters and Sobonya)
[Introduced February 8, 2006; referred to the Committee on
Constitutional Revision then the Judiciary.]
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West
Virginia, amending article VI thereof by adding thereto a new
section, designated section 57, relating to providing that the
Constitution does not require the State to pay for any
abortion; numbering and designating such proposed amendment;
and providing a summarized statement of the purpose of such
proposed amendment.
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia, two thirds of
the members elected to each house agreeing thereto:
That the question of ratification or rejection of an amendment
to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia be submitted to
the voters of the State at the next general election to be held in
the year two thousand six, which proposed amendment is that article
VI thereof be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated
section 57, to read as follows:
ARTICLE VI. THE LEGISLATURE.
§57. State not required to pay for abortions under this
Constitution.
The provisions of this Constitution do not require the State
to pay for an abortion.
Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of
article 11, chapter 3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as
amended, such proposed amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment No.
1" and designated as the "Amendment clarifying that the
Constitution does not require this State to pay for any abortion"
and the purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized as follows:
"Constitution does not require the State to pay for an abortion."
NOTE: The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State
Constitution to provide that the Constitution does not require the
state to pay for an abortion.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.