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1999 SESSION


SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 521
Election of circuit court judges.

Agreed to by the Senate, January 29, 1999
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, January 29, 1999

RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, That the General Assembly, in accordance with the provisions of House Joint Resolution No. 483, shall proceed this day at the conclusion of each house's morning hour.

To the election of Circuit Court judges for a term of eight years commencing as follows:

One judge for the Third Judicial Circuit, term commencing February 1, 1999.

One judge for the Third Judicial Circuit, term commencing July 1, 1999.

And that in the execution of the joint order nominations shall be made in the order herein named, and that each house shall be notified of said nominations, and when the rolls shall be called for the whole number, the presiding officers of each house shall appoint a committee of four, which together shall constitute the joint committee to count the vote of each house in each case and report the results to their respective houses. The joint order may be suspended by the presiding officer of either house at any time but for no longer than twenty-four hours to receive the report of the joint committee.