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2024 SESSION

24108736D
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 119
Offered March 1, 2024
The annual House Senate Basketball Game. 
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Patrons-- Rouse, Surovell, Aird, Bagby, Boysko, Carroll Foy, Craig, Deeds, DeSteph, Diggs, Durant, Favola, French, Hackworth, Hashmi, Head, Jordan, Locke, Lucas, Marsden, McDougle, McGuire, McPike, Mulchi, Obenshain, Peake, Pekarsky, Perry, Pillion, Reeves, Roem, Salim, Stanley, Stuart, Sturtevant, Subramanyam, Suetterlein, VanValkenburg and Williams Graves
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WHEREAS, on February 29, 2024 the annual House Senate Basketball Game (“The Game”) was held at the Stuart Siegel Center to benefit the Massie Cancer Center; and

WHEREAS, during such game the House of Delegates scored a 2-point basket while only having two elected members of the House of Delegates on the floor in violation of the previously agreed rules of the game; and

WHEREAS, the House of Delegates claims to have “won” the game only by virtue of the illegal basket; and

RESOLVED by the Senate of Virginia being the upper chamber and the superior body hereby declares that the outcome of the 2024 House-Senate Basketball Game was a tie; and be it

RESOLVED FURTHER that Clerk of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Delegates shall jointly determine a location for the trophy for such game to reside at a neutral location pending next year’s game; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the Senate shall transmit a copy of this resolution to the Clerk of the House of Delegates and all of its members.