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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 652 Offered January 23, 1995 Requesting the Virginia Housing Development Authority to return to terminology in its regulations which reflects the historic and traditional definition of “family.” ---------- Patron--Miller (By Request) ---------- Referred to Committee on Rules ----------

WHEREAS the Virginia Housing Development Authority in June 1994 elected to modify regulations governing housing subsidies by replacing the word “family” with “household”; and

WHEREAS the word “household” may include illegal and/or immoral living arrangements; and

WHEREAS the Virginia Housing Development Authority housing subsidy was initiated to support and strengthen families who will enhance, not detract from, the moral fiber of the Commonwealth; and

WHEREAS nontraditional family groups may be individually evaluated for housing subsidies administered by the Virginia Housing Development Authority; and

WHEREAS the majority of Virginians subscribe to the traditional definition of “family”; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, That the Virginia Housing Development Authority be requested to serve the families of the Commonwealth by returning the terminology in its regulations to reflect the historic and traditional definition of “family.”