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not make the change mandatory but enables the localities to adopt it if they wish on a local option basis.

The amendment resolution was sponsored by Del. Joan Munford, (D-Blacksburg). If approved it would become effective on Jan. 1,1985.

The second question on the ballot would settle a matter which proved to be a source of mild embarrassement to a number of state officials several years ago.

The question will appear as follows: “Shall the Constitution of Virginia be amended to require a balanced state budget? Yes or No.”

For years Virginia’s politicians, including members of the General Assembly, labored un

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