2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25100084D

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 450

Offered January 13, 2025

Prefiled January 7, 2025

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article I a section numbered 11-A, relating to the right to work.

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Patrons—Green, Fowler, Taylor, Walker, Ware and Williams; Senators: Diggs, McDougle and Mulchi

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Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections

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RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same hereby is, proposed and referred to the General Assembly at its first regular session held after the next general election of members of the House of Delegates for its concurrence in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of Article XII of the Constitution of Virginia, namely:

Amend the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article I a section numbered 11-A as follows:

ARTICLE I

BILL OF RIGHTS

Section 11-A. Right to work.

That any agreement or combination between any employer and any labor union or labor organization whereby persons not members of such union or organization are denied the right to work for the employer, or whereby such membership is made a condition of employment or continuation of employment by such employer, or whereby any such union or organization acquires an employment monopoly in any enterprise, constitutes an illegal combination or conspiracy and is void.