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Statutes > Virginia > Title-30 > Chapter-1 > 30-19§ 30-19. How Constitution amended.
Any amendment or amendments to the Constitution may be proposed in the Senateor House of Delegates by resolution, which shall contain such proposedamendment or amendments prepared in such form as is in accordance with thatprescribed by the rules of the House of Delegates and the Senate fordeletions and additions of language and be spread at length on the journal ofthe house in which it is offered, and if it is agreed to by a majority of themembers elected thereto with ayes and noes taken thereon, it shall becommunicated to the other house where it shall be dealt with in like manner,and when so agreed to by both houses, it shall be enrolled as provided by lawand signed by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House ofDelegates. Such amendment or amendments shall thereupon stand referred to theGeneral Assembly at its first regular session held after the next generalelection of members of the House of Delegates. If at such regular session theproposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority vote of allthe members elected to each house, the same shall be submitted to the people,not sooner than ninety days after final passage, by a bill or resolutionintroduced for such purpose, and if the people shall approve and ratify suchamendment or amendments by the majority of the electors qualified to vote forthe members of the General Assembly voting thereon, such amendment oramendments shall become a part of the Constitution.
(Code 1919, § 312; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 129; 1973, c. 57.)
