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Now we cannot go on to matters of
substance until we have available the com-
mittee amendments and the various amend-
ments on style, so I will have to declare a
pause for a moment.
Would Delegate Powers come to the ros-
trum ? The Chair has in mind maybe a
five minute recess until these amendments
come in, but I just want to check with
Delegate Powers.
The Chair is going to suggest that we
not take a formal recess, but that we sim-
ply just suspend business for ten minutes,
until the amendments are available. We
will ring the quorum bell when we are
ready to go to work again.
(Whereupon, the proceedings were sus-
pended for ten minutes.)
(At this point, President H. Vernon
Eney resumed the Chair.)
THE PRESIDENT: The Convention will
please conic to order.
Roll call. Has every delegate answered
the roll call? The Clerk will record the roll
call.
I am afraid we are losing time we can
ill afford to lose. Some of the amendments
are still not back yet. I think we can take
care of some of them, at least, without
waiting for the actual printed amendment.
There seems to be some confusion as to
exactly where we are. I propose again to
ask for style amendments beginning with
section 3.01. Are there style amendments
to section 3.01? The Chair hears none.
Are there any as to section 3.02? Are
there any as to 3.03? 3.04? 3.05? 3.0fi?
3.07? Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Presi-
dent, in 3.07, on page 3, we have already
taken care of one change on line 17 by
striking out "registered" and inserting
"qualified". The other amendment which I
propose would be this: On line 24, page 3,
the last word on the line "for", and the
two words on the next line "senate dis-
tricts'' would be eliminated, so that the sen-
tence would read, "If any redistricting plan
has been adopted within one year before a
general election for the General Assembly,
a candidate for the office of Senator or Del-
egate may also seek election in any new
senate district containing fifty percent or
more of the population of the senate dis-
trict in which he resided prior to redistrict-
ing."
The elimination of the three words "for
senate districts" would allow for those
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situations where you kept the same senate
district but you actually realigned the
house districts within the single senate dis-
trict, and I think we would want these
three words eliminated.
THE PRESIDENT: Is the amendment
being printed?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: It is, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any objec-
tion to considering, notwithstanding the
fact that it is not printed, an amendment to
section 3.07 to strike from lines 24 and 21}
the words "for senate districts"? If there
is no objection, this will be Amendment
No. 1 by Delegate Gallagher, in section
3.07 strike from lines 24 and 25 on pa#e 3
the words "for senate districts".
Are there any questions of the Com-
mittee Chairman ? Is there any discussion ?
Arc you ready for the question ? The ques-
tion arises on the adoption of Amendment
No. 1 to strike from lines 24 and 25 on page
3 the words "for senate districts". A vote
Aye is a vote in favor of the amendment; a
vote No is a vote against. Cast your votes.
(Whereupon, a roll call vote was taken.)
THE PRESIDENT: Has every delegate
voted ? Does any delegate desire to change
his vote?
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 101 votes in the affirmative
and none in the negative, the motion is
carried. The amendment is adopted.
Are there any other amendments to sec-
tion 3.07? Are there any amendments as to
style to section 3.08? The Chair hears none.
Are there any amendments as to style to
section 3.09? Are there any as to 3.10?
3.11? 3.12? Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Presi-
dent, in section 3.12 on line 37, after the
first word in the sentence "in", I would
move to add the words "any of" so that the
sentence would therefore read, "Words used
by a member of the General Assembly in
any of its proceedings, including the pro-
ceedings of any committees and subcommit-
tees, shall be absolutely privileged." We
want to make certain that there is full
inclusion of all proceedings, and we sug-
gest this addition of this language to make
it clear.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any objec-
tion to considering the amendment not-
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