                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DUTIES OF DIVISION AND OF DIRECTOR (§ 30-28.16)

A. The Division shall:

   1. Establish a reference library which develops and maintains a library
   collection to support the work of the Division and the General Assembly and
   which provides general and specific reference services to members of the
   General Assembly;

   2. Keep on file copies of all bills, resolutions, amendments thereto, reports
   of committees and other documents printed by order of either house of the
   General Assembly;

   3. Accumulate data and statistics regarding the practical operation and effect
   of statutes of this and other states;

   4. Carry out such research projects as shall be assigned to it by the
   Committees on Rules of the House of Delegates and the Senate;

   5. Furnish upon written request of any person a copy of any charter of a city
   or town of the Commonwealth at the charge prevailing from time to time for
   reproducing same;

   6. Carry out research and obtain and analyze information for members of the
   General Assembly and its committees; and

   7. Provide an annual report to the General Assembly, indexed according to
   standing committee jurisdiction, on the status of all reports, actions, or
   data collection that is required by legislation enacted by the General
   Assembly or otherwise requested by the General Assembly of agencies and
   collegial bodies of state government. The report for the most recently
   completed calendar year shall be submitted to the General Assembly and the
   Governor as soon as practicable after the first day of the next regular
   session and may be provided through the legislative electronic information
   system.

B. Upon the request of the Governor, any member of the General Assembly, any
Governor&#8217;s Secretary, or the head of any legislative, judicial or
independent agency, the Division shall:

   1. Draft or aid in drafting legislative bills or resolutions and amendments
   thereto;

   2. Advise as to the constitutionality or probable legal effect of proposed
   legislation;

   3. Prepare summaries of existing laws affected by proposed legislation,
   compilations of laws in other states or countries relating to the subject
   matter of such legislation, and statements of the operation and effect of such
   laws; or

   4. Make researches and examinations as to any subject of proposed legislation.

C. The Director shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by the
Committees on Rules of the House of Delegates and the Senate.

HISTORY: 1966, c. 676; 1973, c. 322; 1977, c. 672; 1979, c. 311; 1980, cc. 687,
723; 1984, c. 202; 1989, c. 412; 1990, c. 485; 2006, c. 662; 2008, c. 677; 2011,
c. 765.