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HOUSE BILL NO. 1303 Offered January 10, 2024 A BILL to amend and reenact § 30-19.4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to administrative and legislative assistants for members of the General Assembly. ---------- Patron-- Herring ---------- Referred to Committee on Rules ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 30-19.4 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 30-19.4. Administrative and legislative assistants for officers and members of General Assembly; staff personnel for standing committees.

A. The General Assembly shall provide for the employment of secretaries and administrative and legislative assistants for the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Majority and Minority Floor Leaders of the House of Delegates and Senate and members of the General Assembly to aid in the performance of duties incidental to the legislative process. Administrative assistants shall be hired by and serve at the pleasure of the Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Delegates for their respective houses. Legislative assistants shall be hired by and serve at the pleasure of individual members of the General Assembly.

B. Allowances for such secretaries administrative and legislative assistants shall be provided as set forth in the general appropriations act. Such allowances shall not be utilized for political purposes and shall be further conditioned upon such limitations and restrictions as shall be set forth in the general appropriations act. The session day per diem for each administrative legislative assistant shall equal the amount authorized for members of the General Assembly as set forth in the general appropriations act.

C. The General Assembly shall provide for the employment of such clerks, counsel and other staff personnel for each of the standing committees as are approved by the Rules Committee of the appropriate house.

D. No member of the immediate family of a member of the General Assembly shall be eligible to receive any sum authorized under the provisions of this section. For the purpose of this section the spouse, parent, child, brother or sister of the member shall be considered a member of the immediate family.