One Hundred Sixth Congress
H. R. 2296 One Hundred Sixth Congress of the United States of America AT THE SECOND SESSION Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand An Act To amend the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to provide that the number of members on the legislature of the Virgin Islands and the number of such members constituting a quorum shall be determined by the laws of the Virgin Islands, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SIZE OF LEGISLATURE. Section 5(b) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 U.S.C. 1571(b)) is amended— (1) by striking ‘‘fifteen’’; and (2) by inserting after the first sentence the following: ‘‘The number of such senators shall be determined by the laws of the Virgin Islands.’’. SEC. 2. NUMBER CONSTITUTING QUORUM. The first sentence of section 9(a) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 U.S.C. …
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H. R. 2296 One Hundred Sixth Congress of the United States of America AT THE SECOND SESSION Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand An Act To amend the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to provide that the number of members on the legislature of the Virgin Islands and the number of such members constituting a quorum shall be determined by the laws of the Virgin Islands, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SIZE OF LEGISLATURE. Section 5(b) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 U.S.C. 1571(b)) is amended— (1) by striking ‘‘fifteen’’; and (2) by inserting after the first sentence the following: ‘‘The number of such senators shall be determined by the laws of the Virgin Islands.’’. SEC. 2. NUMBER CONSTITUTING QUORUM. The first sentence of section 9(a) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 U.S.C. 1575(a)) is amended to read as follows: ‘‘The number of members of the legislature needed to con- stitute a quorum shall be determined by the laws of the Virgin Islands.’’. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.