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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 383 Offered January 8, 1997 Prefiled September 20, 1996 Proposing an amendment to Section 3 of Article IV of the Constitution of Virginia, relating to the House of Delegates; membership; terms of office. ---------- Patron-- Shuler ---------- 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 3 of Article IV of the Constitution of Virginia as follows:

ARTICLE IV LEGISLATURE

Section 3. House of Delegates.

The House of Delegates shall consist of not more than one hundred and not less than ninety members, who shall be elected biennially quadrennially by the voters of the several house districts on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November.