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    Document Summary
    - Report Published -

    House Document No. 11
    PUBLICATION YEAR 1972

    Document Title
    Lowering the Age of Majority to Eighteen Years

    Author
    General Assembly; Special Commission

    Enabling Authority
    HJR 99 (1971)

    Executive Summary
    At the 1971 Session of the General Assembly, the United States Constitutional Amendment which lowered the voting age of all citizens to eighteen was ratified by Virginia. This move on the part of the Virginia legislature initiated new thinking concerning what is a legal majority. If the age of twenty-one had been used as the legal commencement for adulthood as reflected in the past voting laws, should the acceptance of the lower voting age be extended to all areas? Because of the need for study House Joint Resolution No.99 was introduced and adopted.