This amendment provides that agencies in the legislative branch will not be required to pay to the Virginia Retirement System the costs of certain enhanced retirement benefits for employees who are involuntarily separated if the Speaker of the House of Delegates and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules certify that the separation is the result of budget reductions enacted in the Appropriation Act, an agency reorganization to increase efficiency of operations or improve service delivery, or an agency downsizing due to a loss of nongeneral fund revenue. A similar provision presently is included in the Appropriations Act, Chapter 780, for agencies in the executive branch of state government.