WEST virginia legislature

2020 regular session

Introduced

House Joint Resolution 104

By Delegate Kump

[Introduced January 9, 2020; Referred
to the Committee on 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 legislative sessions  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 twenty, 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  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 calendar session days computed from and including the second Wednesday of February, and the regular session held in all other years shall not exceed sixty calendar session days computed 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 the provisions of article eleven, chapter three of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, such amendment is hereby numbered “Amendment No. 1” and designated as the “Length of legislative session computation amendment” and the purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized as follows:  “To change the length of regular legislative sessions from sixty calendar days to sixty session days“.

NOTE: The purpose of this resolution is to change the computation of the length of the regular session from 60 calendar days to 60 session days.