2026 SESSION
ENROLLED
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 6
Establishing the Rules of the House of Delegates for the 2026-2027 Sessions of the General Assembly of Virginia.
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, January 14, 2026
RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, That the House of Delegates shall be governed by the following Rules:
I. Organization.
Elections.
Rule 1. Voting at elections in the House will be by use of the electronic voting system or, if it is inoperable, viva voce by response to the call of names, and the vote will be recorded in the Journal. Except in the case of block voting, only one person will be chosen at a time. If, on the first voting, no one receives a majority, the person having the smallest number of votes will not be voted for on the next voting and so on until someone receives a majority of the whole vote. If the election is by joint vote of the two houses, messages will be exchanged for each voting announcing the names of persons in nomination. A committee of three from each house will compare the votes and ascertain and report the result.
At the election for any judgeship to the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Court of Appeals of Virginia, Circuit Courts, and Courts Not of Record, no nominee will be offered to the House unless that nominee has been interviewed by the House Courts of Justice Committee and subsequently certified as qualified for election. If more than one nominee is offered for any judgeship, a member may cast a vote for only one nominee.
The Speaker.