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2004 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 30-19.3 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 30-19.3. Prefiling of bills and resolutions.
A. Any member or member-elect of the General Assembly may file 60 days prior to
the first regular session following the election of members of the House of Delegates and 180
days prior to other regular sessions prefile bills and resolutions for
even-numbered-year regular sessions beginning the third Monday in November of
the preceding year and for odd-numbered-year regular sessions beginning the
third Monday in July of the preceding year with the Clerk of the House of
Delegates or Senate as appropriate. Any bill or resolution prefiled shall be
endorsed by the handwritten signature of at least one member or
member-elect as a patron. Legislative The deadline for submitting
drafting requests for legislation to be prefiled shall be submitted to
the Division of Legislative Services by the deadline and the deadline for
prefiling legislation with the appropriate Clerk shall be established by the
procedural resolution adopted by the General Assembly, or in default thereof, adopted
by the Joint Rules Committee.
B. In the event of the convening of a special session of the General Assembly,
only bills relating to the stated purpose of such special session and
resolutions affecting the rules of procedure or schedule of business of the
General Assembly may be filed prefiled as provided in subsection A of this
section beginning on the day on which either (i) the Governor announces the
date on which such special session is to convene, or (ii) two-thirds of the
members elected to each house of the General Assembly make application to the
Governor for the convening of such special session.
C. The Clerks of the House of Delegates and Senate shall assign numbers to prefiled bills and resolutions in the order of their receipt, refer them to the appropriate committee with the advice of the Speaker of the House of Delegates, in the case of House bills, and in the case of Senate bills, in accordance with the Rules of the Senate, and have a sufficient number of them printed for circulation as provided in this section.
D. Printed prefiled bills and resolutions shall be periodically mailed to each member and member-elect of the General Assembly and shall be made available to the press and public in the same manner as bills and resolutions introduced after the General Assembly convenes.