Virginia Senate Bill 427 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2018 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-01-16 - Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Redistricting process. Provides a new method for the preparation of state legislative and congressional redistricting plans. The bill specifies standards for developing plans, including population equality, compactness, maintenance of cores of existing districts, and respect for locality boundaries, and precludes consideration of incumbency and political data in developing plans. The bill assigns responsibility to the Division of Legislative Services (the Division) to prepare plans for submission to the General Assembly and establishes a temporary redistricting advisory commission to advise the Division, disseminate information on plans, and hold hearings for public comment on plans. The bill provides that the General Assembly may reject the Division's plans and may ultimately amend the plans. The bill is patterned after the Iowa redistricting process.

Redistricting process; new method for preparation of state legislative & congressional plans.

Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]

2018-01-16 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N) (Y: 7 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-16	Senate	Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N)
2018-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2018-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103529D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	301.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	301.7	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB427
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB427+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S08V0028+SB0427