GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1707
1937, ch. 331, sec. 25.
25. If any clause or other portion of this sub-title is held to be in-
valid, that decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions
of this sub-title. The Legislature hereby declares that all such remaining
portions of this sub-title are severable, and that it would have enacted such
remaining portions if the invalid portions had not been included in this
sub-title.
Legislative Council.
1939, ch. 62, sec. 26.
26. There is hereby created a Legislative Council. Said Council shall
be composed of fourteen members, as follows:
(1) From the Senate: the President, the Chairman of the Finance
Committee, the Chairman of the Judicial Proceedings Committee, the
Floor Leader of the minority party and three additional members, of whom
at least one shall be a member of the minority party, to be appointed by
the President and approved by a majority vote of the Senate.
(2) From the House of Delegates: the Speaker, the chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee,
the Floor Leader of the minority party and three additional members, of
whom at least one shall be a member of the minority party, to be appointed
by the Speaker of the House and approved by a majority vote of the
House.
Said three appointees from the Senate and from the House of Delegates
shall be appointed during the 1939 Session of the General Assembly and
during each regular session thereafter to serve until the beginning of the
next regular session, or appointment of their successors. As far as possible
such appointments shall be so distributed as to make the Council representa-
tive of all sections of the State and of the relative party membership in each
House. The President of the Senate shall be Chairman of the Council,
and the Speaker of the House shall be Vice-Chairman. The Director
of the Department of Legislative Reference shall be the Secretary and
the Director of Research of the Council.
1939, ch. 62, sec. 27.
27. It shall be the function of the Council
(1) To collect information concerning the government and general
welfare of the State;
(2) To examine the operation of previously enacted legislation and
of the common law and of the State Constitution and recommend amend-
ments thereto;
(3) To study the rules and procedure of the Senate and House of Dele-
gates and from time to time recommend changes therein to improve and
expedite the consideration of legislation by the General Assembly;
(4) To supervise the work of interim committees or commissions ap-
pointed at the direction of the General Assembly or of either House;
(5) To prepare a legislative program in the form of recommendations
or bills or otherwise as, in the opinion of the Council, the welfare of the
State may require, to be presented at the next session of the General
Assembly.
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