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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 159 Offered January 25, 1994 Proposing an amendment to Section 5 of Article IV of the Constitution of Virginia, relating to the compensation of members of the General Assembly and their election to certain offices. ----------
Patrons--Wilkins, Albo, Callahan, Dudley, Giesen, Hargrove, Ingram, Katzen, Kidd, Kilgore, Marshall, Sherwood and Wardrup; Senators: Benedetti and Woods
---------- Referred to Committee on Rules ----------

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 Section 5 of Article IV of the Constitution of Virginia as follows:

ARTICLE IV LEGISLATURE Section 5. Compensation; election to civil office of profit.

The members of the General Assembly shall receive such salary and allowances as may be prescribed by law, but no increase in salary shall take effect for a given member until after the end of the term for which he was elected. No member during the term for which he shall have been elected shall be elected by the General Assembly to any civil office of profit in the Commonwealth.

Any increase in the salary or allowances of members of the General Assembly shall be set out in a separate bill and shall be the sole object of that bill.