Bill Text: WV SCR47 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

West Virginia Senate Concurrent Resolution 47 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Amending Joint Rules of Senate and House relating to printing enrolled bills

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2015-03-11 - House Message received [SCR47 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2015-SCR47-Introduced.html

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 47

(By Senators Cole (Mr. President) and Kessler)

Amending the Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Delegates relating to printing of enrolled bills.

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That Rule 15 of the Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Delegates be amended to read as follows:

Printing Enrolled Bills

15. After a bill has been passed by both houses, the text from which it was originally printed shall be corrected as to any typographical errors that may not previously have been corrected and to include any amendments that may have been made by either house since the last printing of the bill. After the text has been so corrected, not less than fifty copies of the bill shall be printed. Twelve of these copies shall be on seven and one-fourth by ten bond paper, twenty-pound basis of at least fifty percent rag content for the use of the Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills, One of which the copies, when properly authenticated, shall become the Enrolled Bill. and the remainder shall be on twenty-pound basis, sulphite bond paper. In the case of enrolled bills authorizing the promulgation of a proposed legislative rule, a copy of the full text of the proposed legislative rule which the bill incorporates by reference shall be appended to the bill which has been properly authenticated and designated to be the Enrolled Bill. The copy appended to the Enrolled Bill shall conform to the copy of the full text of the proposed legislative rule appended to the introduced bill. Copies of the proposed legislative rule shall are not to be appended to the additional copies of the Enrolled Bill. Following action by the Governor, or the failure or refusal of the Governor to approve or disapprove a bill of authorization, the copy of the Enrolled Bill with the proposed legislative rule appended shall be is the copy of the bill filed with the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of Rule 19 of these Joint Rules.