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2016 SESSION

16102530D
HOUSE BILL NO. 791
House Amendments in [ ] -- February 1, 2016
A BILL to amend and reenact § 57-2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Act for Religious Freedom.
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Patron Prior to Engrossment--Delegate Adams
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Referred to Committee on General Laws
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 57-2 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 57-2. Rights asserted therein reaffirmed.

The General Assembly doth now again does hereby declare again that the rights asserted in the said act § 57-1 are of the natural and unalienable rights of mankind and this declaration [ shall remain is ] the policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia.