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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 1043 Offered February 25, 2009 Amending Rule 19 of House Joint Resolution No. 645 of the 2009 Regular Session of the General Assembly of Virginia, relating to the deadline to fill certain judicial and elective officers' vacancies. ---------- Patron-- Griffith ----------

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That Rule 19 of House Joint Resolution No. 645 of the 2009 Regular Session of the General Assembly of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

Rule 19. No later than TuesdayFriday, February 2427, 2009, each house shall begin its consideration of joint resolutions to fill any existing or pending vacancy on (i) the Supreme Court of Virginia, (ii) the Court of Appeals of Virginia, (iii) any circuit or district court of the Commonwealth, (iv) the State Corporation Commission, (v) the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission, and (vi) the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; or to fill a seat due to the expiration of a term of a member of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission. In the event that the houses cannot agree on the filling of any such vacancy before WednesdaySaturday, February 2528, 2009, such vacancy shall become the subject of a special and continuing joint order in each house at the time such house completes its morning hour, and such special and continuing joint order shall have precedence over all other business of either house, until such time as both houses reach agreement on the filling of such vacancy or either house votes to suspend or discharge the order. The Rules of each house, as far as applicable, shall be the rules governing the filling of any such vacancy.