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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 615 Offered March 11, 2008 Amending Rules 20, 22, and 23 of House Joint Resolution No. 31, as amended by House Joint Resolution No. 614, of the 2008 Regular Session of the General Assembly of Virginia, relating to the deadline for the first conference on the Budget Bill(s), session adjournment, and reconvened session. ---------- Patron-- Griffith ----------

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That Rules 20, 22, and 23 of House Joint Resolution No. 31, as amended by House Joint Resolution No. 614, of the 2008 Regular Session of the General Assembly of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:

Rule 20.  The first conference on the Budget Bill(s) shall complete its deliberations no later than midnight, MondayWednesday, March 1012, 2008, and the report of such conference shall be made available to all members of the General Assembly. No engrossment of the Budget Bill(s) shall be required in either house, and any conference on the Budget Bill(s) shall consider, as the basis of its deliberations, the Budget Bill(s) as recommended by the Governor and introduced in the House and the amendments thereto proposed by each house.

Rule 22.  This session of the General Assembly shall be extended beyond the 60-day period provided in Section 6 of Article IV of the Constitution of Virginia to midnight, TuesdayThursday, March 1113.  Members shall receive a session per diem payment for any day or days on which their attendance is required at a meeting of any committee, subcommittee, or conference committee on pending legislation upon submission to the respective Clerk of an attendance roll call, or at a scheduled floor session in which aan attendance roll call vote is taken.

Rule 23.  Pursuant to Section 6 of Article IV of the Constitution of Virginia, the General Assembly shall reconvene Wednesday, April 1623, 2008, for the purpose of considering bills that may have been returned by the Governor with recommendations for their amendment and bills and items of appropriation bills, including the general appropriation act, that may have been returned by the Governor with his objections.