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Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Law - Special Session Resolves Virginia Bill Drafting Problem

According to stories today in the Washington Post (here) and the NY Times (here), the Virginia General Assembly met yesterday in special session to resolve the problems caused by mistakes in drafting changes to their Sunday closing laws. A quote from the Post:

RICHMOND, July 13 -- It took a three-hour special session, dozens of votes, two committee meetings and an extended debate on the meaning of "shall," but Virginia's lawmakers managed Tuesday to undo their mistaken revival of a centuries-old right granting employees a "day of rest" on the weekends.

Nearly two-thirds of the state's 140 lawmakers trekked back to the Capitol for the rare, mid-July meeting of the General Assembly. Their goal: to put Virginia's code back the way it was 14 days ago, when most of the state's businesses were exempt from the blue law.

But nothing stays simple for long when you assemble dozens of lawmakers and more than that number of lobbyists and lawyers in the same building. * * *

See our earlier ILB entries (from July 7 & 8) here and here.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 14, 2004 01:35 PM
Posted to General Law Related