Virginia Senate Bill 770 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 5 2016 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-03-08 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Compactness standard for congressional and state legislative districts. Requires congressional and legislative districts to be composed of compact territory, meaning districts are not to be oddly shaped or have irregular or contorted boundaries, unless justified because the district adheres to political subdivision lines. Fingers or tendrils extending from a district core are to be avoided, in addition to thin and elongated districts and districts with multiple core populations connected by thin strips of land or water. The General Assembly is required to employ one or more standard numerical measures of individual and average district compactness to provide an objective assessment of a districting plan's compactness, both statewide and district by district.

Congressional and state legislative districts; compactness standard.

Sen. David Suetterlein [R]

2016-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) (Y: 21 N: 19 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (7-Y 6-N) (Y: 7 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-08	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2016-02-11	House	Assigned P & E sub: Elections
2016-02-11	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2016-02-11	House	Read first time
2016-02-11	House	Placed on Calendar
2016-02-08	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
2016-02-05	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2016-02-04	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2016-02-02	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections (7-Y 6-N)
2016-01-22	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2016-01-22	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 16104344D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	304.04	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB770
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB770+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S08V0054+SB0770
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0201SB0770+SB0770
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0241SB0770+SB0770