Bill Text: VA HB1303 | 2024 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: General Assembly; administrative and legislative assistants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-08 - Left in Rules [HB1303 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-HB1303-Comm_Sub.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §30-19.4 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§30-19.4. Legislative assistants for officers and members of General Assembly; staff personnel for standing committees.
A. The General Assembly shall provide for the
employment of secretaries and administrative legislative
assistants for the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the President pro tempore
of the Senate, the Majority and Minority Floor Leaders of the House of
Delegates and Senate and members of the General Assembly to aid in the
performance of duties incidental to the legislative process.
B. Allowances for such secretaries and
legislative assistants shall be provided as set forth in the general
appropriations act. Such allowances shall not be utilized for political
purposes and shall be further conditioned upon such limitations and
restrictions as shall be set forth in the general appropriations act. The
session day per diem for each administrative legislative
assistant shall equal the amount authorized for members of the General Assembly
as set forth in the general appropriations act.
C. The General Assembly shall provide for the employment of such clerks, counsel and other staff personnel for each of the standing committees as are approved by the Rules Committee of the appropriate house.
D. No member of the immediate family of a member of the General Assembly shall be eligible to receive any sum authorized under the provisions of this section. For the purpose of this section the spouse, parent, child, brother or sister of the member shall be considered a member of the immediate family.
