CHAPTER 711
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 6
Proposing amendment to § 115-a of the Constitution of Virginia

Agreed to by the Senate January 25, 1964
Agreed to by the House of Delegates February 12, 1954

Whereas, the proposed amendment to the Constitution of Virginia,
hereinafter set forth, was agreed to by a majority of the members elected
to the two houses of the General Assembly at the session of nineteen
hundred fifty-two and referred to this, the next General Assembly, and
published for three months, as required by the Constitution of Virginia,
and as shown by report of such publication by the Clerk of the House of
Delegates; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Delegates 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 is hereby pro
in conformity with the provisions of section one hundred ninety-six of
the Constitution, namely:

Strike from the Constitution of Virginia § 115-a which is as follows:

§ 115-a. No debt shall be contracted by any county, or by or on
behalf of any district of any county, or by or on behalf of any school board
of any county or by or on behalf of any school district in any county,
except in pursuance of authority conferred by the General Assembly by
general law; and the General Assembly shall not authorize any county, or
any district of any county, or any school board of any county, or any
school district in any county, to contract any debt except to meet casual
deficits in the revenue, a debt created in anticipation of the collection of
the revenue of the said county, board or district for the then current
year, or to redeem a previous liability, unless in the general law author-
izing the same provision be made for the submission to the qualified voters
of the proper county or district, for approval or rejection, by a majority
vote of the qualified voters voting in an election on the question of con-
tracting such debt; and such approval shall be a prerequisite to contracting
such debt. No scrip, certificate or other evidence of county or district
indebtedness shall be issued except for such debts as are expressly au-
thorized in this Constitution or by the laws made in pursuance thereof.

And insert in lieu thereof the following:

§ 115-a. No debt shall be contracted by any county, or by or on
behalf of any district of any county, or by or on behalf of any school board
of any county, or by or on behalf of any school district in any county, except
in pursuance of authority conferred by the General Assembly by general
law; and the General Assembly shall not authorize any county, or any
district of any county, or any school board of any county, or any school
district in any county, to contract any debt except to meet casual deficits
in the revenue, a debt created in anticipation of the collection of the revenue
of the said county, board or district for the then current year, or to redeem
a previous liability, unless in the general law authorizing the same pro-
vision be made for the submission to the qualified voters of the proper
county or district, for approval or rejection, by a majority vote of the
qualified voters voting in an election, on the question of contracting such
debt; and such approval shall be a prerequisite to contracting such debt.
No scrip, certificate or other evidence of county or district indebtedness
shall be issued except for such debts as are expressly authorized in this
Constitution or by the laws made in pursuance thereof.

This section shall not be construed as prohibiting the General As-
sembly from authorizing by general law the school board of any county,
with the approval of the governing body of such county, from contracting
to borrow money from the Virginia Supplemental Retirement System, or
any successor thereto, for the purpose of school construction without
having first submitted the question to the qualified voters of such county.