CHAPTER 723
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 73

Proposing an amendment to Section 58 of the Constitution of Virginta.
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, March 7, 1966
Agreed to by the Senate, March 12, 1966

Resolved by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, a majority
of the members elected to each house agreeing, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same hereby is, proposed
and referred to the General Assembly at its first regular session held after
the next general election of members of the House of Delegates for its
concurrence, in conformity with the provisions of section one hundred
ninety-six of the Constitution, namely:

' Strike from the Constitution of Virginia Section 58, which is as fol-
ows:

Section 58. Time when laws take effect.—No law, except a general
appropriation law shall take effect until at least ninety days after the
adjournment of the session of the General Assembly at which it is enacted,
unless in case of an emergency (which emergency shall be expressed in
the body of the bill) the General Assembly shall otherwise direct, by a
vote of four-fifths of the members voting in each house such vote to be
taken by the yeas and nays, and the names of the members voting for and
against entered on the journal.

And insert in lieu thereof the following:

_ Section 58. Time when laws take effect.—Laws enacted at any ses-
sion of the General Assembly commencing on the second Wednesday in
January of any year shall take effect on the first day of July next follow-
ing, and laws enacted at any other session shall take effect on the ninety-
first day following adjournment of the session of the General Assembly
at which enacted, unless the General Assembly in either case fix a later
effective date or unless in case of an emergency (which emergency shall
be expressed in the body of the bill) the General Assembly shall otherwise
direct, by a vote of four-fifths of the members voting in each house, such
vote to be taken by the yeas and nays, and the names of the members vot-
ing for and against entered on the journal.