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2006 SESSION
066645298Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 30-19.12 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 30-19.12. Compensation of members of General Assembly and certain commissions engaged in legislative services.
A. Subject to the provisions of subsections B through E G hereof,
members of all legislative committees, legislative commissions, and councils
established by the General Assembly and all committees and subcommittees of any
of the foregoing shall receive compensation at such rate as provided for in §
2.2-2813. Any other member of the General Assembly whose attendance, in the
opinion of the chairman of such a group, is required at a sitting of such group
shall also be entitled to compensation at the same rate.
B. Legislative membersA legislative member
shall not be entitled to compensation pursuant to this section for any services
performed on any day that the General Assembly member's
house is in active session. For purposes of
this subsection, "active
session" means (i)
any day during any regular
session of the General Assembly or the first extension
thereof, (ii)
any day that a
roll call vote is taken in the member's house during any second
or subsequent extension of a
regular session that is not a pro forma session, or
(iii) any day that a roll call vote is taken in the member's house during
any special
session of the General Assembly that is not a pro forma session.
C. A legislative member shall not be entitled to compensation pursuant to this section for legislative services performed on Capitol Square on any day that the member's house has a pro forma session.
D. Full-time employees of the Commonwealth or of any of its political subdivisions shall not be entitled to compensation pursuant to this section.
DE. No
person shall receive pursuant to this section a total of more than one day's
compensation for services performed on any one day. Whenever a member attends
two or more meetings for which compensation is authorized herein in a single
day, such one day's compensation shall be prorated from among the activities
served.
EF.
Compensation of members of the General Assembly provided for in this section
shall be paid by the offices of the Clerk of the House of Delegates or Clerk of
the Senate as appropriate and funds therefor transferred from the appropriate
activity.
G. For purposes of this section, "Capitol Square" means the grounds and all buildings in the City of Richmond bounded by Bank, Governor, Broad and Ninth Streets. "Pro forma session" means a session that is announced as a pro forma session by the presiding officer and in which no business is scheduled to be conducted.