HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 19
(By Delegate Webb)
[Introduced January 28, 1999; referred to the
Committee on Constitutional Revision then the Judiciary.]
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West
Virginia, amending section thirteen, article six thereof,
relating to removing the prohibition of state employees
running for legislative office; 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, which proposed amendment is
that section thirteen, article six thereof, be amended to read as
follows:
ARTICLE VI. THE LEGISLATURE.
§13. Eligibility to seat in Legislature.
No person holding any other lucrative office or employment
under this state, the United States, or any foreign government;
no member of Congress; and no person who is sheriff, constable or
clerk of any court of record, shall be eligible to a seat in the
Legislature.
Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of
article eleven, chapter three of the code of West Virginia, one
thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, the proposed
amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment No. 1" and designated as
the "Freedom to run for Legislature Amendment" and the purpose of
the proposed amendment is summarized as follows: "The purpose of
this amendment is to allow state employees to run for legislative
office."
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow state employees
to run for the Legislature.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.
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