HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 107
(By Delegate Andes)
[Introduced February 9, 2010; referred to the Committee on
Constitutional Revision then the Judiciary.]
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West
Virginia, amending section 22, article VI thereof, relating to
the length of a legislative session; 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
and ten, which proposed amendment is that
section 22, article VI thereof be amended, to read as follows:
ARTICLE VI. THE LEGISLATURE.
§22. Length of legislative session.
The regular session of the Legislature held in the year
one thousand nine hundred seventy-three two thousand twelve and every
fourth year thereafter shall, in addition to the meeting days
preceding the adjournment provided for in section eighteen of this
article, not exceed
sixty thirty calendar days computed from and
including the second Wednesday of February, and the regular session
held in all other years shall not exceed
sixty thirty calendar days
computed from and including the second Wednesday of January. Any
regular session may be extended by a concurrent resolution adopted
by a two-thirds vote of the members elected to each house
determined by yeas and nays and entered on the journals.
Resolved further, That in accordance with provisions of
article eleven, chapter three of the Code of West Virginia, 1931,
as amended, such proposed amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment
No. 1" and designated as the "Thirty Day Legislative Session
Amendment" and the purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized
as follows: "To amend the state Constitution to change the length
of Legislative Sessions from sixty days to thirty days."
NOTE: The purpose of this resolution is to amend the state
Constitution to change the length of Legislative Sessions from
sixty days to thirty days.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present Constitution, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added