Virginia Senate Joint Resolution 230 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on November 15 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-01-31 - Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission; criteria for legislative and congressional districts. Establishes the seven-member Virginia Redistricting Commission (the Commission) to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. The Commission is directed to certify district plans for the General Assembly within 30 days of receipt of the new census data or by June 1 of the year following the census, whichever occurs later, and for the House of Representatives within 60 days of receipt of the census data or by July 1 of the year following the census, whichever occurs later. The amendment also establishes the standards to govern redistricting plans, which include the current constitutional standards on population equality, compactness, and contiguity and additional standards to minimize splits of localities and to prohibit consideration of incumbency and political data.

Constitutional amendment; Virginia Redistricting Commission, criteria to redraw certain districts.

Sen. Glen Sturtevant [R]

2017-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-31	Senate	Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
2017-01-20	Senate	Assigned to P&E sub: Constitutional Amendments
2016-11-15	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2016-11-15	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100194D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SJ230
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SJ230+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S08V0082+SJ0230