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2012 SESSION

12100877D
HOUSE BILL NO. 936
Offered January 11, 2012
Prefiled January 11, 2012
A BILL to amend and reenact § 30-120 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Senate and House Committees on Standards of Conduct.
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Patron-- Lingamfelter
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Referred to Committee on Rules
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 30-120 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 30-120. Senate and House Committees on Standards of Conduct.

Either Each house of the General Assembly may shall establish, in its rules, a Committee on Standards of Conduct to be appointed as provided in its rules and consisting of three members which shall consist of five persons as follows: two members of the house and of its majority party, one of whom shall be a member of the house and of its minority party, one retired justice or judge of the Commonwealth, and one citizen who is a member of the Virginia State Bar with experience in matters of ethics and standards of conduct. The Committee shall consider any request by a member of its house for an advisory opinion as to whether the facts in a particular case would constitute a violation of the provisions of this chapter and may consider other matters assigned to it pursuant to the rules of its house.