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I have no objection whatever to naming
the speaker —
THE PRESIDENT: I mean the con-
verse. There is no compelling reason why
you could not leave it as "presiding officer"
in section 3.13 even though you use the
term "president of the Senate" in referring
to gubernatorial succession.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: That is cor-
rect.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Burdette,
do you have any comment on the colloquy?
DELEGATE BURDETTE: No, Mr.
President. The arrangement is agreeable
with me.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
Are there any other amendments to 3.05
or 3.06? Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Presi-
dent, I should like to submit an amendment
marked "V" as in victory.
THE PRESIDENT: The pages will
please distribute Amendment V, for vic-
tory. The amendment is No. 8. The Clerk
will read the amendment.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 8,
to Committee Recommendation LB-1, LB-2,
LB-3 as amended by Report S&D-16, by
Delegate Gallagher:
On page 2, section 3.06, Legislative Re-
districting Procedure, strike out all of lines
47 and 48 and insert in lieu thereof the fol-
lowing words: "other plan has not been
provided by law within seventy".
THE PRESIDENT: The amendment is
submitted by Delegate Gallagher. Is there
a second?
(The amendment was duly seconded.)
THE PRESIDENT: The amendment
having been seconded, the Chair recognizes
Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Presi-
dent, and ladies and gentlemen, I would ask
that the amendment include as the first
word "any", so that it would read, "any
other plan".
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any objec-
tion to modifying the amendment by insert-
ing the word "any" in front of the word
"other" in line 5? The Chair hears none.
The amendment will be considered as so
modified.
Delegate Gallagher.
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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: The rea-
son this amendment is offered is that the
language returned from the Style Commit-
tee provides that if the General Assembly
has not prescribed a redistricting plan by
law -within seventy days after the trans-
mission of the plan. It had really been the
intention of the Committee on the Legisla-
tive Branch that not only should the Gen-
eral Assembly have acted within the sev-
enty days, but of course the Governor
would have either signed the law or vetoed
it, and there would have been consideration
of the Governor's veto.
Therefore, in order to make it perfectly
clear that we intend by the use of the sev-
enty-day period that the law shall have
been actually enacted by both the action
of the General Assembly and by the Gov-
ernor, we would prefer to use the language
suggested in the amendment, so that it
would read, "If any other plan has not
been provided by law within seventy days
after the transmission of the commission
plan".
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Gallagher,
again just as a matter of legislative his-
tory, I take it that that means that if the
legislature passes a bill say sixty-five days
before and the Governor fails to sign it un-
til after seventy days, it does not qualify
under this section?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: You are
correct, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any fur-
ther discussion? Do you have a further
question, Delegate Gallagher?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Presi-
dent, it has been suggested that the word
"provided" would be better dropped and
the word "prescribed" should be substituted
therefor. I think that probably is an im-
provement, and I would like to offer it.
THE PRESIDENT: In the amendment,
you mean?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: In the
amendment, yes, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any objec-
tion to considering the amendment further
modified on line 5 to strike "provided" and
insert "prescribed"? The Chair hears none.
Delegate Neilson.
DELEGATE NEILSON: Mr. Chairman,
I was about to make the same point.
THE PRESIDENT: I am sorry. I cut
you off because Delegate Gallagher was
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