[0:07] The House will come to order members, please take their seats,

[0:19] sergeant arms.

[0:27] The House is now in session. All persons

[0:28] are not entitled to privilege of the floor. Please retire to the gallery.

[0:32] The members will rise and be let in prayer by passed to Randy Mathis, senior pass to the point community church,

[0:40] West Point, and remain standing for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

[0:45] by the delegate from Shonen Doha, delegate Gilbert.

[0:50] It's a privilege being here today, and thank you all your my heroes.

[0:56] Before we pray, I'm going to ask that you try to remove everything from your mind.

[1:00] All your things you've been concentrated on.

[1:03] This is concentrated on the Creator, shall we? Let's pray.

[1:09] Dear Heavenly Father, in your word of state,

[1:12] God is love, and we honor that today.

[1:15] The greatest commandment says, you shall love your God with all of your heart, your mind, your soul, and your strength, and you shall love your neighbor as your self.

[1:25] We come against the schemes of the enemy to divide and conquer to instill hatred and disunity.

[1:30] Leaders to come against long-standing traditions of isolation, separation, and segregation.

[1:37] Those things that divide and cause suspicion, President Lincoln's words, a house divided

[1:43] cannot stand echo in these chambers.

[1:46] Our flag, the symbol of our nation, is made of the colors red, white, and blue.

[1:51] Without all three, we are not complete.

[1:54] As remember the phrase, United, we stand, we're divided, we fall, and able us to make unity

[2:00] for giving and loving priorities, so we can stand strong with our neighbors where their

[2:07] black or white or red or blue. Enable us to love our enemies and pray for those who

[2:13] persecute us. Remind us Lord that even our opponents are loved by you the same. Everyone

[2:18] was created by you, in your image, and for your glory. Thus every person we see deserves

[2:24] be treated with dignity and respect as image mayors of you. Our prayer today is more of you

[2:31] or God, and less of me. So when people look at us, all they see is the image of our maker. We

[2:37] have fallen short or lord in many ways, and we need you to get us back on the right path of love

[2:42] and unity. So we relish into victories, we will come our way, as you love pours out of our lives

[2:48] into the streets, love conquers all, love never fails. The greatest of these is love. We love

[2:55] you Lord. Thank you for loving us first. And the matchless, awesome, and loving name of Jesus Christ

[3:02] we do pray today. And our God's people said Amen.

[3:37] The members will answer the roll call by indicating

[3:39] need their presence on the electronic voting board.

[3:50] Clerk will close the roll.

[3:53] Mr. Speaker, a core, Mr. President.

[3:55] The Clerk will report a communication from the governor.

[3:58] Communication, proclamation from his excellent say the governor in accordance with the provisions

[4:02] of Article 4, Section 6 and Article 5, Section 5, the Constitution of Virginia and the powers

[4:08] thereby vested in the governor to call a special session of the General Assembly.

[4:12] Ralph Northerm is hereby summon the members of the Senate in the House, costing the

[4:17] General Assembly of Virginia to meet here in Richmond for the purpose of redrawing districts

[4:22] for the Virginia House of delegates given under the hand on the 20th day of August 2018.

[4:28] Ralph, as Northerm governor of Virginia.

[4:31] The delegate from Shenandoah, Doug and Gilbert will please advise the Senate to the

[4:35] of delegates is organized and ready to proceed with business.

[5:14] How's it going,

[5:25] how's it going?

[17:21] Sergeant arms, Mr. Speaker, a message from the Senate.

[17:26] Senator from Harrisonburg.

[17:28] Good to see you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I've been directed by the President of the Senate

[17:32] to inform the House of delegates that the Senate's duly organized and ready to proceed to

[17:36] business.

[17:37] Thank you, Senator.

[17:38] I appreciate

[17:42] it.

[44:55] Motion's in resolutions on roll 39 pursuant to the provisions of roll 40.

[45:00] Or now in order, the Court shall announce the first morning hour of business, including any clerks, announcements, and communications.

[45:07] Ms. Speaker, I have no announcements at this time.

[45:10] pursuant to Household 30, the journal shall reflect the following members away on pressing personal business

[45:16] on our grand leave from today's session.

[45:19] Delicate Byron, Delicate Genes of Suffolk, Delicate Key, and Delicate Peace.

[45:44] Delicate from Fairfax, Delicate Sickles.

[45:48] Thank you, Mr. Speaker, I rise for a point of personal privilege in this.

[45:52] Don't get it as a force, okay. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

[45:55] Mr. Speaker, in 1998, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming in Lair

[46:02] Meat, Wyoming, was beaten and tortured. He was tied to a wooden fence and left for

[46:06] dead. This treatment do solely to his sexual orientation. His name as you know was Matthew

[46:12] shepherd. Matthew died as the result of his injuries on October 12, 1998 in a Colorado

[46:18] hospital surrounded by his family who loved and deeply in many friends. While inexplicable

[46:25] hate as we saw a year ago in Charlottesville remains in our culture, progress has been made

[46:30] over these last 20 years. Matthew's shepherd's family stepped up, pushed aside their pain and

[46:36] grief and started the Matthew's shepherd foundation. There, they worked toward a future when

[46:42] people who are LGBT won't have to fear for their lives.

[46:46] The Matthew Shepherd Foundation provides a voice to and support for LGBT youth.

[46:51] The Foundation's online resource center is called Matthew's place, and I encourage you

[46:56] to check it out.

[46:58] The Foundation helped pioneer the first, the countries, first federal hate crimes law with

[47:03] the passage of the Matthew Shepherd in Jamesburg, Jr. hate crimes prevention act.

[47:09] Maybe as important, it started a continuing dialogue about hate and acceptance within communities

[47:15] across our nation with special support for the Lairmy project, the claim play by Moiseis

[47:22] Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theatre Project.

[47:26] This year, on the 20th anniversary of Matthew Shepherd's death, dozens of theaters across

[47:31] the United States will be staging performances of the Lairmy project, including here in the Commonwealth.

[47:35] by Lisenup, the Richmond Triangle players, opening September 26 and playing through October

[47:42] 20th, in Rona by off-the-rails theater for four shows on September 28 and 29, and at the

[47:48] Renaissance Theater in Lynchburg on September 21, through October 8, October 6 for eight dates.

[47:55] The Matthew Shepherd Foundation's longstanding mission is to help erase hate by replacing

[48:00] with understanding, compassion, and acceptance.

[48:03] Through local regional and national outreach, it has empowered individuals to find their voice

[48:08] to create change and to challenge communities to identify and then address the hate that often

[48:13] lives within our schools, neighborhoods, and homes.

[48:16] The Foundation's work is an extension of Matt Shepherd's passion to foster a more caring

[48:20] and just world.

[48:21] They do so by sharing his story and embracing his bigger for changing the hearts and minds

[48:26] of others to accept each person as they are.

[48:30] Matthew's parents, Judy and Dennis Shepherd have been tireless and unrelenting in their work

[48:36] to build a more civil and tolerant society free from hate and bigotry.

[48:40] Led by Judy and Dennis, the foundation and citizens across our nation, including many here

[48:45] in Virginia, continuing gauge to engage in activities that raise awareness of hate crimes

[48:50] in our society.

[48:52] So it is my hope, Mr. Speaker, and the hope of the shepherds, that one day the foundation

[48:57] may be able to close its doors.

[49:00] Unfortunately, the same hate and violence toward LGBT people that sparked the foundation's

[49:04] formation still exists both at home and abroad.

[49:08] I hope that all of us here today, Mr. Speaker, and members of this historic body, will double

[49:12] down on our work for a quality for justice to ensure the safety of all people and embrace

[49:18] each other until hate is no more.

[49:21] With that, Mr. Speaker, I move that when we adjourn today, we do so in honor of Matthew

[49:26] Wayne Shepherd.

[49:28] Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

[49:29] The delegates, sickles, moves that when the husband day to adjourn the honor and memory of

[49:35] Matthew Wayne Shepherd, those in favor of the motion shall rise.

[49:44] That motion is agreed to.

[49:46] The Clerk will report a resolution.

[49:49] How store it resolution 7,000 and 1 limiting legislation be considered by the 2018 special

[49:55] session to the General Assembly and establishing a schedule for the conduct of business

[49:58] coming before such special sets.

[50:00] The resolution has been distributed as available online. And Mr. Speaker, there is a floor amendment

[50:06] to H.J. 7,000 one, offered by delegates on.

[50:10] Doug, if I'm Shannon Doe, I'm doing your book.

[50:14] Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members of the House. The House's joint resolution, they have, before

[50:21] you, is nothing new in terms of what it does to organize this body and the body down the hall.

[50:28] It provides for the purpose of our special session, the rules, other things that we might do while we are here, such as election of judges, and so forth and appointments to which are subject to confirmation.

[50:44] There's an additional transparency paragraph that you see before you that I think it's consistent with the way that both sides of the aisle would choose to handle these matters in a very public transparent way.

[50:56] And so I offer the resolution for the consideration of the body.

[51:00] Do you feel like it can fare effects, do I look at Simon?

[51:03] Mr. Speaker, remember the House?

[51:05] The amendment is in I.

[51:07] It's fairly self-explanatory.

[51:08] I'd like to speak to the floor amendment.

[51:10] I'm speaking to the floor amendment.

[51:11] Do I look at the floor?

[51:12] Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

[51:14] I'm going to do this to the floor amendment tonight.

[51:16] It goes at the very end of the resolution,

[51:18] and it talks about when we come back.

[51:20] And so typically we've said as we come back at the call of the speaker

[51:24] and the Chairman of the Senate rules committee with 48 hours notice.

[51:28] What this amendment does is it says, but in no event leader, then September 12, 2018, on

[51:34] the part of the House of delegates.

[51:35] The idea there being that we've introduced, we're here to redistricting to correct the map.

[51:39] We've introduced the bill.

[51:40] It's been referred to the privileges and elections committee.

[51:43] Beyond that, we don't really have a schedule for the conduct of business the way we do

[51:46] during a regular session.

[51:47] Well, committees have a deadline to act, and we have to cross over deadline to get things to

[51:50] the Senate.

[51:51] They have to act and so forth.

[51:52] So all this doesn't try to put too much of a fine point on it.

[51:55] It says that we've got to be back here.

[51:57] The community will be done with its work by the time we get back

[51:59] on September 12th.

[52:00] So we have time to do our constitutional readings.

[52:02] Treat this like any other bill, get it to the Senate.

[52:04] So they can act, give the governor, if you need,

[52:06] it's time to act because we're operating under our deadline.

[52:08] This isn't a do it when we can.

[52:10] The court is ordered us to complete this process by October 30th.

[52:13] So the point of the amendment is to hope that we get back here

[52:15] in time to keep this process moving along

[52:17] so that we can meet the court's deadline.

[52:18] It would be the pleasure of the House to pass the amendment.

[52:23] Mr Speaker.

[52:32] Do you have any questions?

[52:33] Do you have any questions?

[52:36] Mr Speaker speaking to the amendment.

[52:38] Do you have any questions?

[52:39] Mr Speaker, I would ask the members of the body to reject the proposed floor amendment.

[52:45] We have every intention of coming back expeditiously to try to deal with the issues before us.

[52:51] It's just that the time proposed certainly, you know, the time that the governor gave us to even begin to plan this endeavor was certainly very short notice.

[53:04] The additional short notice certainly impacts a number of members probably from both sides of the aisle and their ability to return to take up this matter in a thoughtful manner.

[53:13] And so we have, I would publicly commit to coming back within three weeks from now, or at least

[53:21] that by that Friday in the third week from now, to try to take up these matters, which

[53:27] I think would be the 21st of September, Mr. Speaker.

[53:30] But we are certainly not trying to delay these proceedings.

[53:32] In fact, I think we're very eager to get to some of the issues that are presently before us,

[53:37] and try to take them up in a very thorough manner, a very thoughtful manner.

[53:42] And very quickly, for that matter, I don't think three weeks is too much to ask for.

[53:46] So we are publicly committing to trying to come back here, I say, trying because again,

[53:52] we can't guarantee that on such a note as everybody will be here, but I think the speaker,

[53:58] myself, our leadership, are ready to commit to coming back here by the 21st of September to take

[54:03] these up and take this up and whatever else may be before is at that time.

[54:08] And so I would just ask the members of the body to reject the amendment.

[54:11] Doug, control its will, Doug, it's gone.

[54:16] Thank you, Mr. Speaker, speaking in favor of the amendment.

[54:19] Doug, it has a floor.

[54:20] Thank you, Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen of the House.

[54:24] I appreciate the comments of the gentleman from Shenandoah and his willingness to

[54:28] specify that he come back, we'd come back in three weeks.

[54:32] There is a reason why we wanted to accelerate it period of time.

[54:38] Mr. Speaker, in the reason I think should be apparent to everyone who has followed this situation for a while

[54:44] The court the district court on June 22nd

[54:48] June 26th

[54:50] Issued an order that said we had drawn

[54:54] Unconstitutional districts and we had to fix the problem that was June

[55:00] 26. Since that time, it really has been delayed, delayed, delay. If, I'm sure that people are aware that

[55:09] shortly after June 26, I wrote a letter to the speaker. We're requesting that we convene

[55:16] as quickly as we could to try to draw new maps to fix unconstitutional lines. Nothing came

[55:24] of that. Shortly thereafter, the court then wrote to the House for Republicans and said,

[55:32] please tell us what you intend to do. Do you intend, essentially, to introduce a map,

[55:37] that people can debate the side on that will fix the unconstitutional districts. At that

[55:43] point, I wrote another letter saying, it's time for us to get together, we need to fix this

[55:50] problem. Again, nothing happened. It was the only at that time that the governor stepped in

[55:58] and said, you legislators don't seem to be able to get your act together to have a special

[56:03] session. I'm going to call one because you got to fix a constitutional problem and you have

[56:11] address a court order. Now, we are here today and we are hearing again delay delay delay delay.

[56:23] And I can understand the argument to delay if you want to get some more public input on this.

[56:31] But let me also give you some perspective on what happened the last time we faced this challenge.

[56:39] Let me take you back all the way to 2011.

[56:44] Now, not everybody was here, so you probably don't know what happened at that time.

[56:50] At that time, we had to do a redistricting.

[56:53] And we didn't get it done during the general session.

[56:55] So we called a special session.

[56:58] That special session had the introduction of a bill on March 29th, March 29th.

[57:07] There were three public hearings and four other public hearings that occurred two days within

[57:16] two days of the introduction of that bill.

[57:20] And on April 4th, which is less than a week after the bill was introduced, the P&E Committee

[57:29] voted that bill out of the committee, hit the floor, and it then was passed by the House

[57:35] of Deligets.

[57:36] So don't say that we need all that much more time and we were dealing with a map that

[57:44] involved the entire state, not just 11 districts.

[57:51] Now we can either delay delay delay or we can fix the problem.

[57:56] The reason for our amendment is that it holds our feet to the fire and it gives us much

[58:02] more time than we gave ourselves 10 years ago, eight years ago to fix this problem.

[58:09] I hope we will vote for the amendment, vote green on the amendment, and let's keep a date

[58:17] certain where we will come back and try to get a vote on something to resolve a constitutional

[58:23] problem. Thank you.

[58:26] Mr. Speaker, Mr.

[58:32] Speaker, I've been directed by the President of the Senate to inform

[58:36] the House of delegates that the Senate has unanimously agreed to its own Senate Procedural

[58:43] Resolution, Senate Joint Resolution, Number 7000 and 1.

[58:47] Thank you, Senator. I've been changed.

[59:00] Floor amendment.

[59:05] I should vote a reporter.

[59:09] Okay. Call a report before amendment.

[59:11] Or amendment offered by delegate Simon.

[59:15] On line 23. After the word rules insert comma.

[59:21] But a no-vent later than September 12, 2018 on the part of the House of

[59:25] delegates. This is a floor amendment offered by delegate Sullivan to House

[59:34] Mr. Speaker, Parliamentary and Courier at this point.

[59:39] Do I get it before?

[59:40] Mr. Speaker, everybody is a little rusty.

[59:42] I believe the question if I am correct is on the issue of the floor amendment at this point,

[59:48] proposed by the gentleman from Arlington,

[59:51] delegate Simon, is that not correct?

[59:53] The delegate is correct, and after we wrap up,

[59:55] discussion will have a vote on the floor amendment.

[59:57] Thank you, Ms. Speaker.

[1:00:00] Shall the floor amendment be agreed to? All this in favour? Say aye.

[1:00:06] I'll suppose no. The no's have it. The floor amendment is rejected. The ask and the answer.

[1:00:12] Call for shall the floor amendment be agreed to.

[1:00:23] Clerk will. Close the roll.

[1:00:26] Aye, 48. No, the floor amendment is rejected. The delegate from Shenandoah, delegate.

[1:00:32] Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would again move the adoption of the resolution.

[1:00:40] Mr. Speaker, delegate from Charlottesville, I'm sorry to speak, but it's not

[1:00:45] working, but speaking to the resolution.

[1:00:48] Thank you. Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen, the House.

[1:00:51] As you can see by the last vote, it is possible to prevent the passage of the procedural

[1:00:56] resolution. But on our side, we believe it's very important.

[1:01:02] we have a responsibility to govern. We're not going to create a problem by rejecting this procedural

[1:01:07] resolution. We believe we need to get to the work of redrawing these districts as quickly

[1:01:12] as we can. I'm urging all my colleagues on the Democratic side to vote a very strong green

[1:01:18] on the procedural resolution.

[1:01:23] Shall the resolution be agreed to?

[1:01:33] Close the roll.

[1:01:37] As 96, no 0, as 96, no 0, the resolution is agreed to the Doug from Shenandoah, the

[1:01:45] Robert will communicate the action that has the delegates to the Senate and request its

[1:01:49] concurrence.

[1:01:53] Has for BD's.

[1:02:56] The GELP.

[1:09:08] Resolution, House Resolution, number 701, the traditional salaries, contingent, and incidental expenses,

[1:09:16] per DM payment, during special session 2. Pay to my delegate, Gilbert.

[1:09:24] Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, members of the House. This is the resolution that I believe

[1:09:29] the Chairman of Appropriations would typically put forward covering expenses, per DMs, and the like during

[1:09:36] the Special Legislative session, I move the adoption of the resolution.

[1:09:40] Shall the resolution be agreed to?

[1:09:48] Clock will close the roll.

[1:09:51] Eyes 93, no 0, as 93, no 0, the resolution is agreed to.

[1:10:00] The delegate from Pococen, delegate helpful.

[1:10:04] Speaker, ask for a motion.

[1:10:07] Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

[1:10:09] Mr. Speaker, John Sidney McCain III was an American hero, plain and simple.

[1:10:17] Upon graduation from the United States Naval Academy, he was commissioned in the United States Navy.

[1:10:23] He became an aviator serving our great country during the Vietnam War.

[1:10:27] While on a bombing mission during Operation Rolling Thunder over Hennawoi, in 1967, he was shot

[1:10:34] down, seriously injured, and then captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war

[1:10:41] until 1973, and during this time in captivity he was tortured, he was beaten, and he was

[1:10:49] starved. Given the opportunity to be released as a prisoner of war before other fellow

[1:10:54] American fighters who had been a prison longer than he, he simply said, no, the ones that

[1:11:02] he sustained during the war left him with lifelong physical disabilities. He retired

[1:11:07] from the Navy as a captain in 1981, any Lutheran as owner. We're in a politics in 1982.

[1:11:16] The daytime he was elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served two

[1:11:22] He earned the U.S. Senate in 1987 and easily won re-election five times, the final time in 2016.

[1:11:33] As we know, Senator McCain passed away this past weekend yesterday, and yesterday would have been his 82nd birthday.

[1:11:42] Today we know that those wounds from war are healed, as our loss is having to gain.

[1:11:48] May we all look at the life and career of John McCain and strive to be more like him

[1:11:54] in service to our state, to our country, and to the people we serve.

[1:12:00] Today, Mr. Speaker, I'm here with you when we are adjourned.

[1:12:02] We do serve in the honor and the memory of the Maverick, Senator John, Sydney, McCain,

[1:12:08] the Third.

[1:12:10] Doug, helpful moves to when the House adjourn today, the adjourn in honor and memory

[1:12:15] of John Siddney McCain III. Those in favor of the motion shall rise.

[1:12:27] Motion's agreed

[1:12:30] to delegate from Prince William, delegate of Gosman.

[1:12:38] Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise for the purpose of an announcement.

[1:12:43] Doug, it has to for.

[1:12:44] Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to recognize the month of August as national water quality

[1:12:50] months. From baiting and cleaning to household use and drinking water, the average person uses

[1:12:57] 80 gallons of water a day. There are many communities, both in America and around the world

[1:13:04] that is struggle with access to clean water. It is vital that we protect this valuable resource

[1:13:10] by ensuring that our actions do not impact the watershed. Although the clean water act was

[1:13:17] in 1972, we still struggle with keeping our environment clean because of the things that we

[1:13:24] do to the watershed. Collective actions strengthen our planning and engage both the wildlife

[1:13:31] and the water. Almost half of the U.S. population lives within 50 miles of coastline, which is

[1:13:39] wide watershed protection. It's so important. Here in Virginia, our actions eventually make

[1:13:45] to the Chesapeake Bay, and it's critical that we all do our part to keep it clean for future

[1:13:51] generations.

[1:13:53] This month Mr. Speaker, some of the members of this house had a opportunity to learn more

[1:13:59] about the health and the biological diversity of the Chesapeake Bay, who were taking in

[1:14:06] a tour by the Chesapeake Foundation.

[1:14:08] After that, Mr. Speaker, we understood the need and importance to continue investing in

[1:14:15] Bad Bay, the Chesapeake Bay provides clean air and water. Thank you.

[1:14:27] The delegate from Prince William and delegate Carol Ford.

[1:14:33] Mr. Speaker, I rise for the purpose of an introduction.

[1:14:37] Do I get an answer for?

[1:14:38] In the gallery today, we have representatives from the National Women's Party, Delta Sigma

[1:14:44] Theta Soorty Incorporated, and other citizen advocates for Women's Equality.

[1:14:49] The National Women's Party was founded in 1913 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as a single

[1:14:57] issue party focused on equality for...

[1:15:00] In 1913 in a parade organized by Alice Paul, the 22 founders of Delta Sigma data sorority, also marched for equality.

[1:15:15] They were 22 of only 43 women of color to march in a parade with an estimated 8,000 participants.

[1:15:25] Since then, more than 200,000 women have joined the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, and they currently

[1:15:33] have over 1,000 chapters across the world.

[1:15:38] Members of the National Women's Party and the Delta Sigma Theta sorority are here in Richmond

[1:15:45] on the heels of the very successful events for women's equality day, commemorating the ratification

[1:15:53] of the 19th Amendment. Please join me in giving them a warm house.

[1:16:26] Certainly, I want to welcome the guests of the cap and hope you enjoy your stay.

[1:16:34] The clerk shall announce the next order of business.

[1:16:38] Second morning, our order of business member request to move legislation

[1:16:41] from the uncontested regular calendar is a move point.

[1:16:48] Dialogues from Charlottesville, Dalganskana.

[1:16:51] Speaker, can we return to the morning hour for the introduction, please?

[1:16:54] Thank you, Mr. Speaker, I rise for an introduction.

[1:16:57] I'll get asked before.

[1:16:58] Thank you, Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen, the House.

[1:17:00] Joining us in the capital, they are members of one Virginia 2021.

[1:17:06] The non-partisan redistricting group that has spent a lot of time working on all kinds of plans

[1:17:14] and all kinds of constitutional amendments over the years that a number of us have supported.

[1:17:19] I don't know if there's still a gallery, but I hope that we can give them a warm round of applause for all the work they do on behalf of the Commonwealth.

[1:17:26] Thank you.

[1:17:41] Hi, sir.

[1:17:41] I welcome visitors of the Capitol.

[1:17:47] Anyone else announcement was?

[1:17:50] All right.

[1:17:51] We're going to move on to the third morning hour.

[1:17:53] Does the clerk have any order of business within the third morning hour?

[1:17:57] That's our Mr. Speaker.

[1:17:59] Court shall announce the next word at this.

[1:18:01] The fourth morning, our order of business recognition of members requests for points of personal

[1:18:06] privilege.

[1:18:06] Speaker request members to use their request to speak button to signify their desire to be recognized.

[1:18:12] Dulling from Portsmouth, dog and heretic.

[1:18:16] Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of personal privilege.

[1:18:18] Dulling it as before.

[1:18:21] Mr. Speaker, members of the House, citizen, sir, Virginia.

[1:18:25] It's often said that integrity is how you act when no one is watching.

[1:18:32] Over the past several weeks, too many, back room conversations about redistricting have

[1:18:37] been held, out of the public eye, and with no transparency whatsoever.

[1:18:42] Today, our citizens are watching what we do.

[1:18:47] All of Virginia is watching what we do. Our nation is watching what we do.

[1:18:57] Mr. Speaker in 2015, I was elected to this house in part. On the basis of a promise

[1:19:02] I made to the voters of my district to support independent nonpartisan registering reform.

[1:19:10] Along with our colleague, Republican Senator Emmett Hanger, I was proud to have been endorsed

[1:19:14] by one Virginia 2021, the organization that is truly leading on the issue of non-partising

[1:19:21] redistricting reform. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, including a

[1:19:27] good many, who joined us in the wave of 2017, promise their voters the same straightforward agenda.

[1:19:36] Voters all across this commonwealth, in our nation, oppose the time dishonored tradition of

[1:19:43] monitoring districts, which allows politicians to pick their constituents and not the other way around.

[1:19:51] While this problem is nearly as old as our nation itself, citizens from across the political

[1:19:56] spectrum are now more than ever fed up with this.

[1:20:00] Corrupt political culture. Mr. Speaker, we have at this moment the real and fleeting opportunity to

[1:20:06] lead our Commonwealth out of this gutter, and to make a powerful and historic statement that

[1:20:11] are Commonwealth and our citizens as we approach our 400th anniversary as a legislature. We have

[1:20:17] the opportunity to carve out a legacy which will stand as a shining testimony to the power

[1:20:23] of what good men and women on both sides of the aisle can do when they put this Commonwealth ahead

[1:20:28] of petty partisan politics.

[1:20:32] We have the opportunity to act collectively and without more partisan ranker to demonstrate

[1:20:39] to this nation, to this commonwealth, and to each citizen that we serve, by our actions

[1:20:45] and not by mere more empty words, what we actually mean by the Virginia way.

[1:20:53] Mr. Speaker, the proposed redistricting map we've seen so far today goes well beyond anything.

[1:20:58] But the Federal Court has directed us to do.

[1:21:02] It's self-serving political power grab.

[1:21:05] It's gerrymandering in response to gerrymandering.

[1:21:10] It's tit for tat.

[1:21:12] It's in the immoral words of the baseball great yogi barra.

[1:21:15] It is deja vu all over again.

[1:21:19] But let's be honest, Mr. Speaker.

[1:21:20] Turning around and doing to your side,

[1:21:22] exactly what the Republicans did to us in 2011,

[1:21:25] doesn't make this commonwealth any better.

[1:21:27] It doesn't settle any scores, in fact, it merely creates new ones.

[1:21:33] The time has come to finally bury this dinosaur, a political corruption we all know is

[1:21:37] Jerry Mandarin.

[1:21:40] I'm not the only member of this house who was elected in part because I took a strong

[1:21:43] position in favor of independent nonpartisan redistricting reform.

[1:21:48] There are many on my side who feel as I do and are ready to stand for this principle

[1:21:52] over politics.

[1:21:53] And I know, Mr. Speaker, there are solid leaders on your side who will as well.

[1:21:58] Today, let us join together, regardless of the cynical political voices that try to persuade

[1:22:04] us to do.

[1:22:05] Let us join together and put our commonwealth in the future of its citizens above our own

[1:22:11] petty political ambitions.

[1:22:13] Let us join together and finally, finally, make the monumental and patriotic act of looking

[1:22:20] And Jerry Mandarin, squarely in the eye, calling it out for what it truly is, and establishing

[1:22:26] genuine redistricting reform, and drawing districts that actually serve the Commonwealth

[1:22:31] of the citizens of Virginia, and I thank you, Mr. Speaker.

[1:22:50] Does anybody want to go back to the conclusion this morning or so, if anyone wants to

[1:22:54] speak?

[1:22:55] Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

[1:22:56] Darling, for Charles Woodall, I have the honor this morning, Mr. Stand before you to try

[1:23:04] celebrate the time in this general assembly of the honorable member from Salem, Gregg

[1:23:10] of B. I know that I work very closely with the governor to pick this particular day for

[1:23:17] the special session rather than tomorrow or the next day because he wouldn't be here

[1:23:22] otherwise. And we wanted to have an opportunity to talk a little bit about delegate of B.

[1:23:28] No,

[1:23:30] we don't. No, we, yes, we do. I'm sure there'll be many other people who will celebrate

[1:23:36] his success here in the chamber. You know, I, he came after me, but I think I spent maybe

[1:23:43] more time in committee meetings with delegate to be, but maybe anyone else, I was on courts

[1:23:50] with him, I was on civil law, subcommittee with him, transportation with him,

[1:23:59] transportation

[1:23:59] way too much time with him.

[1:24:03] Let me tell you, during that time, I really have enjoyed his intellect and skills, and those

[1:24:09] are two things that we're going to miss him for leaving us.

[1:24:16] Sometimes people are critical of lawyers, but the really good ones like Delegate Habib,

[1:24:23] they look at the language of a bill, they look beneath the language of the bill, they look

[1:24:28] around the language of the bill.

[1:24:30] They look at the unintended consequences of the bill.

[1:24:34] Now, sometimes that appears to be a little obnoxious,

[1:24:40] but not great to be.

[1:24:41] He's one of the best of this and not being obnoxious

[1:24:46] and with the possible exception of those narcoleal tweets,

[1:24:51] he sends across the room occasionally during floor sessions.

[1:24:55] I mean, seriously though, I began to see delegate of B.

[1:25:00] As a sort of a fixer, not a Michael Cohen-Fashion type fixer, but a fixer of bills, both democratic

[1:25:11] and Republican, by the way. Sure, he did have this little occasional partisan side, which

[1:25:19] we all enjoyed, enjoyed, and smiled at, but when he put down that partisanship and let the full

[1:25:30] range of his mind work, it was a thing to be whole,

[1:25:37] and we will have a hard time replacing

[1:25:39] that in this chamber.

[1:25:42] So in conclusion, I want to thank the gentleman from Salem for gracing us with his presence

[1:25:48] for all these years, and we shouldn't have best of luck in whatever future endeavors he may

[1:25:55] attempt.

[1:25:55] Thank you.

[1:26:28] So, are your norms?

[1:26:29] Mr. Speaker, a message from the Senate.

[1:26:32] Senator from Harris, a Mark Senate, or I've been saying.

[1:26:34] It's been a long time, Mr. Speaker.

[1:26:36] Mr. Speaker, I've been directed by the President of the Senate to inform the House

[1:26:39] delegates that the Senate has agreed to, House Joint Resolution Numbers, 7,000 in one.

[1:26:46] Thank you, Senator.

[1:26:58] Thank you, Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen, the House,

[1:27:04] yesterday the Democratic Caucus,

[1:27:08] put in a bill to try to fix the unconstitutional boundaries that had been drawn in 2011 by

[1:27:15] as chamber. Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen, I can say to you today, we take our obligation

[1:27:22] to govern very seriously as we show it a few minutes ago by passing that procedural

[1:27:27] resolution. And we also take corridors very seriously. People may say, well, you know, we

[1:27:35] have an appeal pending. We have a vast first day, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

[1:27:39] But anybody who knows anything about the law understands that until a court acts, any of the grants of appeal, or grants of stay, you are required to comply with the terms of an order of the court.

[1:27:58] Now that's what we have tried to do.

[1:28:01] We understand with that court says something is unconstitutional, we have an obligation as legislators to try to address that problem.

[1:28:16] We have known that these districts were unconstitutional for a long, long time.

[1:28:22] The court affirmed our view of that on June 26th of this year, June 26th, how many months ago was that?

[1:28:35] We haven't had an opportunity to get back together and try to fix the problems since June 26th.

[1:28:42] And frankly, we're not the origin of the problem and we are not the majority party.

[1:28:49] So in a way, we're not in a position to fix that problem without your help.

[1:28:54] So what we have been doing over the last few months is writing letters trying to get a commitment

[1:29:01] to come back here to do our work as required under the Constitution.

[1:29:08] And at least two letters asking for us to get back together, no response.

[1:29:16] Even the court has asked what the majority party is going to do.

[1:29:22] They most recently asked for the majority party to provide information before August 24th

[1:29:30] about when and if the majority party was going to produce a map.

[1:29:37] The response was the classic non-response, I.E. We're not sure what we're going to do.

[1:29:44] All we can tell you is the governor is called a special session, and that's about it.

[1:29:50] Moments to speak, or ladies and gentlemen of the House, there have been four elections for the House of Delegates since this unc...

[1:30:00] Constitutional map was drawn for. We want to make sure there's not a fifth. We want to make sure we fix that map. So, delegate bag be as introduced that map, and I think it has a broad basis support within this caucus.

[1:30:16] We believe that it is constitutional in that it does not take race into effect as the predominant reason by which these maps are drawn.

[1:30:28] So, that's what the court said in a student 26,

[1:30:33] ruling that you can't use race as the predominant reason.

[1:30:39] Now, Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen, the House,

[1:30:42] there are a couple of other things about this map

[1:30:45] that I think people would find interesting.

[1:30:49] First of all, the map assumes the plus or minus deviation

[1:30:54] in population that this chamber also assumed

[1:30:58] when it drew its map in 2011, so at least we tried to build on what was used last time.

[1:31:07] Now some of us are not quite sure we agree with a plus or minus 1% deviation, but we

[1:31:13] set aside and said, okay, we want to build a map at least on basis of some assumptions

[1:31:18] that we're agreed on.

[1:31:20] Secondly, people are always concerned about split precincts.

[1:31:25] The old house map, the one that were the 11 districts were considered unconstitutional, had 115

[1:31:35] split precincts. In the affected districts, there were 41 split precincts.

[1:31:41] In those 11 affected districts now, there are only 14 split precincts.

[1:31:48] So we try to address that issue as well.

[1:31:51] Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen of the House, there are a lot of people who have worked very hard on this map.

[1:31:58] It's not a perfect map. There are no perfect maps, but it's a map.

[1:32:04] And that's something that has not been produced by the majority parties since June 26.

[1:32:10] Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen of the House, I hope that we can act quickly on this map.

[1:32:17] If you have amendments to it, fine, if you don't like it, that's your prerogative two you can go against it.

[1:32:27] There have been some people on this side of the aisle who say it's that map is unconstitutional.

[1:32:33] That our map is unconstitutional.

[1:32:37] I say that again because that's an important point.

[1:32:40] If you believe it's unconstitutional, then you should vote it down.

[1:32:46] But we think it is, and we hope that you will support it in the P&E committee as well as when it gets to the House floor.

[1:32:53] Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

[1:32:55] The delegate from Stinna, do a delegate, Gilbert.

[1:32:59] Thank you, Mr. Speaker, I rise for appointed personal privilege.

[1:33:01] Do I get as floor?

[1:33:03] Mr. Speaker, members of the House.

[1:33:06] You know, I'm hearing something from the gentleman from Charlottesville that's reminiscent of the same type of thing,

[1:33:12] a thing that I've heard for about a decade from the Democrats in this body as they have attempted

[1:33:19] to stake out some sort of moral high ground on the issue of redistricting.

[1:33:25] I would suggest that the facade of that moral high ground completely disappeared yesterday

[1:33:31] with the introduction of their redistricting map and plan.

[1:33:37] To say that the current position taken by our Democratic colleagues is hypocritical is an

[1:33:43] understatement, and to say that it does not do what they represented that it does is absolutely

[1:33:52] factual.

[1:33:55] First, the hypocrisy, Mr. Speaker, yesterday we saw House Democrats introduce a map that

[1:34:00] goes to great lengths to protect four of their vulnerable members.

[1:34:06] It goes to great lengths to significantly weaken five incumbent Republicans.

[1:34:12] Contrary to what the gentleman said at the press conference yesterday about his own map,

[1:34:18] it paired four of our Republican incumbents into the same district.

[1:34:26] Mr. Speaker, I'm told that their effort to reach down and grab one of our members and

[1:34:32] him into another district in the very stark way that they attempted to do it actually failed

[1:34:40] because they failed to account for the fact that delegate McGuire had moved before they drew

[1:34:46] a little thumb that comes down into a district like that to try to grab his house. So they're

[1:34:50] going to have to work extra hard to grab him where he lives now in Gujarland County. But I have

[1:34:56] no doubt based on the creativity that I saw in that map yesterday that they can absolutely

[1:35:00] We tried to do that. Mr. Speaker, at the same time, this map kept a number of Democrat incumbents separated

[1:35:07] who lived less than a mile apart from each other. And it gratuitously weakened to the tune of

[1:35:13] 10 or 12 points, the district of the chairman of appropriations, delegate zones. This was

[1:35:21] clearly a very nakedly partisan move across the board, no question about that.

[1:35:30] And this move stands in sharp contrast to the recent words that we have heard even from

[1:35:37] the very leaders who put forth this plan yesterday.

[1:35:41] I quote, a system in which incumbents can choose their voters and draw political opponents

[1:35:47] Out of their districts is undemocratic, said, delegate hearing, House Democrat caucus Chairman in 2017.

[1:35:59] I further quote to say that this issue has been contentious, is an understatement,

[1:36:03] but it is clear that some Republican incumbents want to draw districts in a way

[1:36:07] that benefit them and disadvantage their opponents, said,

[1:36:12] Minority Leader, David Descano, also in 2017.

[1:36:18] Many of their colleagues are on the record as well.

[1:36:21] Mr. Speaker, with local activist groups or constituent groups,

[1:36:24] where they've answered questionnaires or said things at forums,

[1:36:27] the very thing that the gentleman from Portsmouth alluded to,

[1:36:30] they are many of them on the record,

[1:36:33] as advocating things that are much different than the plan

[1:36:36] that they've put forth today.

[1:36:37] I'm glad that there are activists here in the capital who support the efforts that they pledged

[1:36:45] that they themselves would support.

[1:36:47] They can see this plan for themselves and get to hear about it and we're about to hear about

[1:36:51] it in some detail.

[1:36:56] So it's partisan.

[1:36:57] I understand that.

[1:37:01] But now the world knows that our democratic colleagues are not above that sort of thing as they

[1:37:05] for trade themselves to be for the better part of the last decade.

[1:37:10] But the bigger problem, Mr. Speaker, is not the partisanship.

[1:37:14] It is that this bill does not fix the problems that the court ordered us to fix.

[1:37:21] It doesn't even fix the legal issues and makes many of them much worse.

[1:37:25] And in fact, it creates several new issues for no apparent reason at all, except the partisanship

[1:37:30] to which I previously alluded.

[1:37:33] Mr. Speaker, we've identified 115 issues that the court itself put forth that required

[1:37:41] fixing the House Democrat plan only fixes about a quarter of those.

[1:37:47] Those 115 issues, this plan that we saw yesterday addresses 29 of those 115 issues.

[1:37:55] I heard the gentleman a minute ago say in trying to claim that high ground again, that

[1:38:01] And he takes court orders very seriously.

[1:38:05] He takes about a quarter of the court orders very seriously.

[1:38:08] I would suggest based on the map and plan that we see before us today.

[1:38:14] Mr. Speaker, the long short of it is the court's order was either defied or ignored.

[1:38:25] And that is not how you address the court's edict.

[1:38:30] There are a couple of very simple examples that are easily fixable that the court's edicts

[1:38:35] that are not fixed under the House Democrats plan.

[1:38:37] And I just put forward a few of them.

[1:38:40] One was the fan in Richmond.

[1:38:43] Everybody knows the historic fan district in Richmond,

[1:38:46] and it's shaped and it's history and its restaurants,

[1:38:48] and the like and many of us even live in the fan

[1:38:51] when we're here in Session.

[1:38:52] And the court said, keep the fan together,

[1:38:55] which apparently the fan was split up into two

[1:38:58] legislative districts previously.

[1:39:00] The House Democrat plan, completely ignores the court's

[1:39:04] management to keep the fan together.

[1:39:06] Deli get McQueen had three precincts that the court specifically said.

[1:39:11] Those need to be back in her district.

[1:39:14] They identified those precincts by name.

[1:39:17] This plan does not even do that simple thing of fixing

[1:39:21] what the court told us to do with those three precincts.

[1:39:25] The court said, don't split up, denwitty county.

[1:39:30] And the plan continues to split up, denwitty county.

[1:39:33] It doesn't even address that.

[1:39:34] Again, the very simple things that the court ordered that the people who are making this

[1:39:39] map could look at and say the court told us not to do that.

[1:39:42] They went ahead and did them anyway.

[1:39:45] As to the racial components, Mr. Speaker, the court said in District 89 to rectify a split

[1:39:52] precinct in the District 89 where white and black voters were separated under the Democrats

[1:39:59] plan.

[1:40:00] That precinct remains untouched. There are so many other examples, Mr. Speaker, the court took issue with how narrow some districts are.

[1:40:10] So what did the Democrat plan do? Instead of addressing the narrowness issue, it made one district even more narrow to the point where you cannot even drive down a street to get from one part of the district to the other, because no street exists in that narrow band that connects one part of the district to another.

[1:40:30] in making it never were still.

[1:40:36] Finally, Mr. Speaker, there are three districts that are affected that are not even included in this litigation.

[1:40:41] And are not even adjacent to the district's affected by this litigation,

[1:40:47] which is well beyond what is required to comply with the court order.

[1:40:52] Mr. Speaker, we've obviously started looking at this plan.

[1:40:54] It is badly flawed, and the representations about it have not proven to be true in most respects.

[1:41:01] So we intend to look at it further, we intend to give additional scrutiny that the court would expect.

[1:41:08] And so that will start today as the Privileges and Elections Committee convenes to take up this plan

[1:41:14] and start to address some of the concerns that we have developed just in a few short hours.

[1:41:20] I'm certain that other concerns will come to light as we mind down into the data and the rationale behind the plan that already appears so flawed.

[1:41:28] So for our own part, Mr. Speaker, we will continue to evaluate that plan.

[1:41:34] We will see if there is a politically viable path forward that also complies with and

[1:41:41] fixes what the court told us to fix.

[1:41:43] We would be eager to look for such a path.

[1:41:48] And I hope that we can find some common ground in that regard.

[1:41:52] But I must say, Mr. Speaker, that the plan put forward yesterday is an in-auspicious start

[1:41:59] to that effort.

[1:42:00] Thank you.

[1:42:02] Does any member have any further announcements, introductions or motions?

[1:42:07] And if I could before, yes, I apologize.

[1:42:11] I'm all getting right on for a point of view.

[1:42:13] I'm all getting right.

[1:42:15] Thank you.

[1:42:15] I write for a point of press on privilege.

[1:42:17] I'll get as a floor.

[1:42:18] Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

[1:42:20] Mr. Speaker and members of the House.

[1:42:23] I do have to address the points that were raised.

[1:42:26] And especially when it comes to the issue of calling our side,

[1:42:30] have a critical.

[1:42:33] It is a fact, Mr. Speaker, since the Republicans have been in power,

[1:42:37] Democrats have introduced 87 redistricting reform bills on one form or another, so we would

[1:42:45] not have a partisan process in comparison Republicans introduced only three.

[1:42:52] We are dealing with the hand that we've been dealt. The court, on June 26, found these districts

[1:43:00] be unconstitutional 11 of them. 72 days had passed. 72 before the Republicans would do anything.

[1:43:12] So the court had to issue another order and said, what are you going to do? What is your intent?

[1:43:20] There's complete silence over on the other side of the aisle. Nothing. It took a court order to say to

[1:43:28] what are you going to do? There were no hearings, scheduled, nothing.

[1:43:36] So yes, we took it upon

[1:43:37] ourselves to start moving because something needed to be done. And perhaps Mr. Speaker,

[1:43:45] the attitude over there is nicely coined in the quote that was provided to the press by one

[1:43:53] of the members over there, and I'm not going to call out the way that some of our members

[1:43:57] have been called out, but it was a member over there who said this. Again, what the citizens

[1:44:01] have to remember is that we've lived in the lines for eight years. There are only two

[1:44:06] more years until we have to do something anyway. That's the sentiment over there. So before

[1:44:12] you cast a stone over here, check yourself. Please. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

[1:44:21] Does any member have any further announcements and reductions for motions?

[1:44:26] Do I get from Doug from Alexandria, Doug Levine?

[1:44:31] Mr. Speaker, we'll jump in from Shenandoah.

[1:44:33] Rise for a question. We're in the morning hour.

[1:44:35] There are no questions.

[1:44:36] All right.

[1:44:39] In fact, could before we move on the next section,

[1:44:43] a little bit unusual.

[1:44:44] I'd like to just say something quickly about Doug Levine.

[1:44:47] He from outside of the aisle,

[1:44:49] He's very much been monitoring us not to praise him.

[1:44:53] And so I didn't want to, after Dr. Deskana,

[1:44:56] from Charlottesville, said the very kind words,

[1:44:58] I want him to certainly know from out.

[1:45:00] So, outside of the aisle, he's one of the most talented delegates, I've certainly ever dealt with, and certainly in committee has done yoga and work, probably not a brighter regard that cares about the Commonwealth and fixes legislation, so I think certainly from outside of the aisle, we're going to miss you, so thank you all.

[1:45:35] If not, get the court will call the calendar.

[1:45:38] Mr. Speaker, calendar for today, Thursday, August 30th, 2018 for the 2018 special session

[1:45:46] too, there are no live categories on today's calendar.

[1:45:53] House Bill 7,000, and one has been referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections.

[1:45:57] However, Mr. Speaker, since this morning, a number of members, six in all have introduced

[1:46:05] slide at the speaker's table, a number of commending resolutions.

[1:46:11] Yes.

[1:46:13] The speaker, the commending resolutions laid on the speaker's table are six.

[1:46:19] They are House Resolution 702, offer by delegate Brewer, House Resolution 703 and 704,

[1:46:26] offered by delegate team, as well as House Resolution 705, excuse me, and then two more,

[1:46:32] for House Resolution 706 and 707, offer by delegate Thomas.

[1:46:36] These are commanding resolutions that could be taken up as a block.

[1:46:43] All those in favor of adopting the committee resolutions,

[1:46:46] later on the speaker's table was read by the clerk.

[1:46:49] We'll signify by saying aye.

[1:46:51] I'll also post no.

[1:46:53] The resolutions are agreed to think the clerk has certain other resolutions

[1:46:57] Mr. Speaker, that completes any business before the bottom.

[1:47:02] For Household 51, the House has returned the morning hours.

[1:47:06] The clerk have any additional announcements or communication.

[1:47:08] Yes, sir, Mr. Speaker, a letter to the clerk signed by the speaker.

[1:47:13] I've made the following committee assignments and changes affected today.

[1:47:17] Delegate Robert B. Bell, the third has been appointed to committee on religious elections,

[1:47:22] and he has replacing Delegate Habib.

[1:47:25] Now, let's get Bell of Alamarl to an assigned privilege and elections to replace Deligate

[1:47:31] Hubby.

[1:47:32] In addition, another letter from the speaker to the clerk, made the following committee

[1:47:36] assignments and changes effective today, Deligate Gilbert has been appointed to the committee

[1:47:41] on privileges and elections, and he will be replacing Deligate Jones, who is a way.

[1:47:47] So Deligate Gilbert will be on committee on privileges and elections in lieu of Deligate

[1:47:51] Jones.

[1:47:52] Finally, Mr. Speaker, looking ahead at the afternoon schedule, the Committee on Privileges and

[1:48:00] Elections is going to meet one half hour after adjournment of the House down in the extension

[1:48:06] in House Room 3, P&E will be meeting at House Room 3, half hour after adjournment approximately

[1:48:12] 2, 15, 2, 20 this afternoon.

[1:48:15] And delegate from Shenandoah, delegate Gilbert.

[1:48:21] Mr. Speaker, I move that when the House adjourns today, it adjourned to reconvene pursuant

[1:48:25] to House Joint Resolution 7,000 and 1.

[1:48:28] delegate from Shenandoah, delegate from Gobert moves it when the House adjourned day to

[1:48:30] adjourned to reconvene pursuant to H.J.R. 7,000 and 1.

[1:48:33] As many as favor that motion will say aye.

[1:48:36] All of the supposed to know, the motions agree to the delegate from Shenandoah, delegate

[1:48:40] Gilbert.

[1:48:40] Mr. Speaker, I move the House do now adjourn.

[1:48:44] As many as favour the motion will say aye, those opposed no, the motion is agreed to the

[1:48:50] hostings adjourn until we convene pursuant to H.A.R. 7,01.

August 30, 2018 - Special Session II

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