General Assembly may refer to many lawmaking bodies. A bill in the legislative process can originate with a legislator, on his or her own accord, or by request from a constituent or an interest group.
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The Senate cannot introduce bills for raising revenue. Article 1, Section 7 of the US Constitution states that All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other bills
The governor of a state may veto an item of any type of bill without vetoing the whole bill. This action is called an item, line veto.
The Supreme Court of Virginia seats seven justices who are elected to twelve-year terms by a majority vote of both Houses of the Virginia General Assembly. In addition to the regular justices, the legislature may also select as many as five retired justices to one-year terms to assist and to hear cases when a regular justice is unavailable.
A political party shall be treated as a recognised political party in a State, if and only if either the conditions specified in Clause (A) are, or the condition specified in Clause (B) is, fulfilled by that party and not otherwise, that is to say-(A) that such party -has been engaged in political activity for a continuous period of five years; andhas, at the last general election in that State to the House of the People, or, as the case may be, to the Legislative Assembly of the State, returned-either ( i ) at least one member to the House of the People for every twenty-five members of that House or any fraction of that number from that State;or (ii) at least one member to the Legislative Assembly of that State for every thirty members of that Assembly or any fraction of that number;(B) that the total number of valid votes polled by all the contesting candidates set up by such party at the last general election in the State to the House of the People, or as the case may be, to the Legislative Assembly of the State, is not less than six per cent of the total number of valid votes polled by all the contesting candidates at such general election in the State.
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