House Resolution 3


(Originating in the Committee on Rules)


[January 10, 2008]


"Amending House Rule 91a, setting the last day for bill introduction at the forty-first day of the session."

Resolved by the House of Delegates:
That House Rule 91a be amended to read as follows:
Time Limit on Introduction
91a.
No House joint resolution and no House bill, other than a House supplementary appropriation bill or a House bill originating in a House standing or select committee, shall be introduced in the House after the forty-fifth forty-first day of a regular session unless permission to introduce the joint resolution or bill be given by a House resolution, setting out the title to the joint resolution or bill and adopted by a two-thirds vote of the House members present. The forty-fifth forty-first day of the regular session held in the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven two thousand nine and every fourth year thereafter shall be computed from and include the second Wednesday of February of such years. When permission is requested to introduce a joint resolution or bill under provisions of this rule, quadruplicate copies of the joint resolution or bill shall accompany the resolution or bill when introduced.