CHAPTER 643
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 44

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia.

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 5, 1962
Agreed to by the Senate, February 16, 1962

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 Genera] Assembly at the session of nineteen
hundred sixty and referred to this, the next General Assembly, and pub-
lished 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 House of Delegates of Virginia, the Senate concurring,
a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing, That the follow-
ing amendment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same is
hereby, proposed in conformity with the provisions of section one hun.-
dred and ninety-six of the Constitution of Virginia, namely:

Insert in the Constitution of Virginia a new section numbered Sec.
50-a, as follows:

Sec. 50-a. In any case of enemy attack upon the soil of Virginia
by nuclear fusion or fission bombs or devices, if the Governor by procla-
mation declares that due to the emergency created thereby a quorum of
the General Assembly cannot be assembled, a lesser number, but not
less than two-fifths of the members elected to each house, may meet, and
may enact legislation without regard to the limitations on required affirma-
tive votes set forth in Sec. 50; provided, (a) that any such law may be
enacted only by the recorded affirmative vote of four-fifths of the mem-
bers of each house present and voting; (b) that no such law shall remain
in effect longer than one year from the date of approval by the Governor
and may not be again adopted except in compliance with Sec. 50 hereof :
and (c) that each bill passed under this section shall set forth therein
the proclamation of the Governor together with the text of such bill
and the entire bill, including such proclamation, shall be subject to judicial
inquiry as to the matters set forth therein.