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2022 SPECIAL SESSION I

22208038D
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 6001
Offered April 4, 2022
Limiting legislation to be considered by the 2022 Special Session I of the General Assembly and establishing a schedule for the conduct of business coming before such Special Session.
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Patron-- Kilgore
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RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That during the 2022 Special Session I of the General Assembly, summoned by proclamation of the Governor on March 23, 2022, commencing on April 4, 2022, except with the unanimous consent of the house in which the legislation is offered, no bill, joint resolution, or resolution shall be offered or considered in either house during the Special Session other than those relating to (i) conference reports continued from the 2022 Regular Session, including H.B. 29 and H.B. 30; (ii) any such legislation as may be communicated from the Governor; (iii) single-house commending and memorial resolutions; (iv) the rules of procedure or schedule of business of the General Assembly or any of its committees; (v) the election of judges and other officials subject to the election of the General Assembly; or (vi) appointments subject to the confirmation of the General Assembly; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That after the Special Session is convened for the first time, each body may adjourn from time-to-time until reconvened with at least 48 hours’ notice by the respective call of the Speaker of the House of Delegates or the Chair of the Senate Committee on Rules; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That any conference committee on the Budget Bills shall complete its deliberations and make the report of such conference available to the General Assembly as soon as practicable. Neither house shall consider such conference report earlier than 48 hours after receipt, unless both houses respectively determine to proceed earlier by a vote of two-thirds of the members voting in each house. No engrossment of the Budget Bills shall be required in either house, and any conference on the Budget  Bills shall consider, as the basis of its deliberations, the Budget Bills as recommended by the Governor and introduced in the House and the amendments thereto proposed by each house. A report shall be issued concurrently with the report of the conference committee that identifies the following by item number, narrative description, and dollar amount: (i) any nonstate agency appropriation; (ii) any item in the conference report that was not included in a general appropriation bill as passed by either the House or the Senate; and (iii) any item that represents legislation that failed in either house during the regular or a special session; and, be it

RESOLVED FINALLY, That for purposes of this resolution:

“Budget Bill” means the general appropriation bill introduced in each house that authorizes the biennial expenditure of public revenues for the period from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2022, or July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2024.