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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 428 Offered April 17, 2024 Applying to the Governor to call a special session and establishing a schedule for the conduct of business coming before such special session. ---------- Patron-- Herring ----------

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That, pursuant to Section 6 of Article IV of the Constitution of Virginia, which directs that the Governor shall convene a special session upon the application by two-thirds of the members elected to each house, the General Assembly does hereby apply to the Governor to convene the General Assembly in a special session on Monday, May 13, 2024, for the purpose of considering Budget Bills; and be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That after the Special Session is convened for the first time, it may stand in recess from time to time until reconvened by the joint call of the Speaker of the House of Delegates and Chair of the Senate Committee on Rules to consider such matters as are provided for in the procedural resolution adopted to govern the conduct of business coming before such Special Session; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That no engrossment of the Budget Bills shall be required in either house, and any conferences on the Budget Bill shall consider, as the basis for their deliberations, the enrolled Budget Bill transmitted to the Governor at the close of the 2024 Regular Session; and, be it

RESOLVED FINALLY, That for the purpose of this resolution;

"Budget Bills" means the general appropriation bill introduced in each house that authorizes the biennial expenditure of public revenues for the period from July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2024, or July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2026.