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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doesn't the emergency in effect sooner need like 2/3 of legislature and not just half to pass? So that is less likely that it will be before the written July 1.[/quote]

No, Eileen Filler-Corn changed this in 2020.

[quote]Both the House and the Senate clerks, the General Assembly’s experts on legislative rules, confirmed to the Mercury that, under current practice, an emergency clause sent down by Youngkin could pass with simple majority votes.

That suggests the masks provision could easily clear the House, where Republicans have a 52-48 majority. And if only one of the three Senate Democrats who voted for the bill Wednesday want the law to take effect immediately — a strong possibility given the vocal anti-mandate stance of Sen. Chap Petersen, D-Fairfax — emergency language could also clear the Senate, where Democrats have a 21-19 majority with Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears breaking ties.

“We don’t have a lot of tools to push back,” Del. Marcus Simon, D-Fairfax, said Wednesday. “That’s life in the minority.”

In a similar situation in the fall of 2020, Democrats used their superior numbers in both chambers to pass emergency protections for Virginians facing eviction when then-Gov. Ralph Northam added an emergency clause. Both chambers approved it by majority vote, over Republican opposition.[/quote]
https://www.virginiamercury.com/2022/02/09/virginia-appears-set-to-ban-school-mask-mandates-how-soon-will-it-happen/

The House will vote 52-48 for the emergency clause. Chap, at a minimum, will cross party lines to vote for the emergency clause, making it 20-20 (Lewis and Morrissey voted for the bill across party lines and I guess there's a chance they could cross for the emergency clause too). If it's 20-20 in the senate Winsome Sears will break the tie and pass the emergency clause. That means it's highly unlikely, at this point, that a March 1 emergency clause won't pass by a whisker.[/quote]

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