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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 30 Offered January 12, 2000 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article X a section numbered 8-A, relating to the maintenance of local revenue sources. ---------- Patron-- Darner ---------- Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections ----------

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same hereby is, proposed and referred to the General Assembly at its first regular session held after the next general election of members of the House of Delegates for its concurrence 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 X a section numbered 8-A, as follows:

ARTICLE X TAXATION AND FINANCE

Section 8-A. Maintenance of local sources of revenue.

The General Assembly shall maintain local sources of revenue. No law that diminishes any local source of revenue shall become effective unless the General Assembly, at the same session, provides for the replacement of lost local revenues through general fund appropriations. No law diminishing a local source of revenue shall remain in effect unless at subsequent sessions the General Assembly continues to appropriate general funds to replace the lost local revenues; and the law diminishing the local source of revenue shall expire, and the preexisting law be reinstated, thirty days following the date on which the locality or localities cease to receive the replacement general funds.

The General Assembly may provide for a reduction in a local source of revenue without provision for replacement revenues only by a vote of four-fifths of the members voting in each house, the name of each member voting and how the member voted to be recorded in the journal of the house.