Bill Text: MI HJRN | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Legislature; legislators; number of members in the house of representatives; revise. Amends sec. 3, art. IV of the state constitution.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-20 - Joint Resolution Electronically Reproduced 04/19/2017 [HJRN Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HJRN-Introduced.html
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION N
April 19, 2017, Introduced by Rep. McCready and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, by amending section 3 of article IV, to
revise the number of members in the house of representatives.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, to revise the number of members in the house
of representatives, is proposed, agreed to, and submitted to the
people of the state:
ARTICLE IV
Sec.
3. The house of representatives shall consist of 110 76
members elected for two-year terms from single member districts
apportioned
on a basis of population. as provided in this article.
The
districts Each house of
representatives district shall be one-
half of a senatorial district and shall consist of compact and
convenient territory contiguous by land.
Each
county which has a population of not less than seven-
tenths
of one percent of the population of the state shall
constitute
a separate representative area. Each county having less
than
seven-tenths of one percent of the population of the state
shall
be combined with another county or counties to form a
representative
area of not less than seven-tenths of one percent of
the
population of the state. Any county which is isolated under the
initial
allocation as provided in this section shall be joined with
that
contiguous representative area having the smallest percentage
of
the state's population. Each such representative area shall be
entitled
initially to one representative.
After
the assignment of one representative to each of the
representative
areas, the remaining house seats shall be
apportioned
among the representative areas on the basis of
population
by the method of equal proportions.
Any
county comprising a representative area entitled to two or
more
representatives shall be divided into single member
representative
districts as follows:
(1)
The population of such districts shall be as nearly equal
as
possible but shall not be less than 75 percent nor more than 125
percent
of a number determined by dividing the population of the
representative
area by the number of representatives to which it is
entitled.
(2)
Such single member districts shall follow city and
township
boundaries where applicable and shall be composed of
compact
and contiguous territory as nearly square in shape as
possible.
Any
representative area consisting of more than one county,
entitled
to more than one representative, shall be divided into
single
member districts as equal as possible in population,
adhering
to county lines.
Resolved further, That the foregoing amendment shall be
submitted to the people of the state at the next general election
in the manner provided by law.