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Introduced Version House Joint Resolution 107 History

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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
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