AN ACT
To provide for the popular election of the Governor of the Virgin Islands, and for other
 purposes.


 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That, effective on the date of enactment of
this Act, section 7(a) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (68 Stat. 497, 500;
48 U.S.C. 1573(a), as amended, is amended to read as follows:

 "(a) Regular sessions of the legislature shall be held annually, commencing on
the second Monday in January (unless the legislature shall by law fix a different date),
and shall continue for such term as the legislature may provide. The Governor may call
special sessions of the legislature at any time when in his opinion the public interest
may require it. No legislation shall be considered at any special session other than
that specified in the call therefore or in any special message by the Governor to the
legislature while in such session. All sessions of the legislature shall be open to the
public."

 SEC. 2. Effective on the date of enactment of this Act, section 9, subsection (a)
of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (68 Stat. 497, 501; 48 U.S.C. 1575(a))
is amended by deleting the first sentence and by substituting therefore the following:
"The quorum of the legislature shall consist of eight of its members."

 SEC. 3. Section 9, subsection (d), of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin
 Islands (68 Stat. 497, 502; 48 U.S.C. 1575(d)) is amended by deleting its fifth, sixth,
 seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth sentences and by substituting therefore the following:
 "When a bill is returned by the Governor to the legislature with his objections, the
 legislature shall enter his objections at large on its journal and, upon motion of a
 member of the legislature, proceed to reconsider the bill. If, after such reconsideration,
 two-thirds of all the members of the legislature pass the bill, it shall be a law."

 SEC. 4. Section 11 of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (68 Stat.
 497, 503; 48 U.S.C. 1591) is amended to read as follows:

 "SEC. 11. The executive power of the Virgin Islands shall be vested in an
 executive officer whose official title shall be the 'Governor of the Virgin Islands'. The
 Governor of the Virgin Islands, together with the Lieutenant Governor, shall be elected
 by a majority of the votes cast by the people who are qualified to vote for the members
 of the legislature of the Virgin Islands. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be
 chosen jointly, by the casting by each voter of a single vote applicable to both officers.
 If no candidates receive a majority of the votes cast in any election, on the fourteenth
 day thereafter a run-off election shall be held between the candidates for Governor
 and Lieutenant Governor receiving the highest and second highest number of votes
 cast. The first election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be held on