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2015 SESSION

15101149D
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 519
Offered January 14, 2015
Prefiled December 10, 2014
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article I a section numbered 16-A, relating to the right to acquire farm-produced food.
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Patrons-- Morris, Berg and Pogge
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Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
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RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same hereby is, proposed and referred to the General Assembly at its first regular session held after the next general election of members of the House of Delegates for its concurrence in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of Article XII of the Constitution of Virginia, namely:

Amend the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article I a section numbered 16-A as follows:

ARTICLE I
BILL OF RIGHTS

Section 16-A. Right to acquire farm-produced food.

That the people shall have a right to acquire, for their own consumption, farm-produced food directly at the farm with agreement from the farmer who produced it.