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CHAPTER 1016 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 124

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article XI a section numbered 4, relating to the right of the people to hunt, fish, and harvest game.

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 9, 2000 Agreed to by the Senate, March 1, 2000

WHEREAS, a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Virginia, hereinafter set forth, was agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses of the General Assembly at the regular session of 1999 and referred to this, the next regular session held after the 1999 general election of members of the House of Delegates, as required by the Constitution of Virginia; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same hereby is, proposed in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of Article XII of the Constitution of Virginia, namely:

Amend the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article XI a section numbered 4 as follows:

ARTICLE XI CONSERVATION

Section 4. Right of the people to hunt, fish, and harvest game.

The people have a right to hunt, fish, and harvest game, subject to such regulations and restrictions as the General Assembly may prescribe by general law.