Bill Text: VA HB1303 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: General Assembly; administrative and legislative assistants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-03-08 - Left in Rules [HB1303 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-HB1303-Introduced.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. Administrative and 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 and 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. Administrative assistants shall be hired by and
serve at the pleasure of the Clerk of the Senate and the
Clerk of the House of Delegates for their respective houses. Legislative
assistants shall be hired by and serve at the
pleasure of individual members of the
General Assembly.
B. Allowances for such secretaries administrative 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.