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2012 SESSION
SB 446 Bipartisan Redistricting Commission; created.
Introduced by: Jill Holtzman Vogel | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Bipartisan Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a seven-member temporary commission to prepare redistricting plans in each year ending in one for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to the Commission shall be made one each by the four majority and minority party leaders of the House and Senate and by the state chairmen of the two major political parties. Those six appointees shall appoint the seventh member and chairman for the Commission. If they cannot agree, they shall submit the names of the two persons receiving the most votes to the Supreme Court of Virginia for the Court to select the chairman. The Commission will prepare plans and submit them as bills to the General Assembly. The General Assembly shall then proceed to act on the bills in the usual manner. The bill provides for Commission comments on plans as they change in the legislative process. It also spells out the standards and process to be followed by the Commission in preparing plans, including limitations on the use of political data and opportunities for public comment on the plans. The bill incorporates SB 189.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/12 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12101041D pdf
- 01/17/12 Senate: Committee substitute printed 12104343D-S1 pdf | impact statement
HISTORY
- 01/11/12 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12101041D
- 01/11/12 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/17/12 Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/17/12 Senate: Committee substitute printed 12104343D-S1
- 01/18/12 Senate: Incorporates SB189
- 01/19/12 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/12 Senate: Read second time
- 01/20/12 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/20/12 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 12104343D-S1
- 01/20/12 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB446S1
- 01/23/12 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/12 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/13/12 House: Read first time
- 02/13/12 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/13/12 House: Assigned P & E sub: Constitutional Amendments Subcommittee
- 02/27/12 House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely by voice vote
- 03/10/12 House: Left in Privileges and Elections