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House Study Bill 55

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 42.3, subsection 2, Code 2001, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  If the bill embodying the plan submitted by the
  1  4 legislative service bureau under subsection 1 fails to be
  1  5 approved by a constitutional majority in either the senate or
  1  6 the house of representatives, the secretary of the senate or
  1  7 the chief clerk of the house, as the case may be, shall at
  1  8 once transmit to the legislative service bureau information
  1  9 which the senate or house may direct regarding reasons why the
  1 10 plan was not approved the house rejecting the plan shall
  1 11 convey the reasons for the rejection of the plan to the
  1 12 legislative service bureau by resolution.  The legislative
  1 13 service bureau shall prepare a bill embodying a second plan of
  1 14 legislative and congressional districting prepared in
  1 15 accordance with section 42.4, and taking into account the
  1 16 reasons cited by the senate or house of representatives for
  1 17 its failure to approve the plan insofar as it is possible to
  1 18 do so within the requirements of section 42.4.  If a second
  1 19 plan is required under this subsection, the bill embodying it
  1 20 shall be delivered to the secretary of the senate and the
  1 21 chief clerk of the house of representatives not later than May
  1 22 1 of the year ending in one, or twenty-one days after the date
  1 23 of the vote by which the senate or the house of
  1 24 representatives fails to approve the bill submitted under
  1 25 subsection 1, whichever date is later.  It is the intent of
  1 26 this chapter that, if it is necessary to submit a bill under
  1 27 this subsection, the bill be brought to a vote not less than
  1 28 seven days after the bill is printed and made available to the
  1 29 members of the general assembly, in the same manner as
  1 30 prescribed for the bill required under subsection 1.
  1 31    Sec. 2.  Section 42.3, subsection 3, Code 2001, is amended
  1 32 to read as follows:
  1 33    3.  If the bill embodying the plan submitted by the
  1 34 legislative service bureau under subsection 2 fails to be
  1 35 approved by a constitutional majority in either the senate or
  2  1 the house of representatives, the same procedure as prescribed
  2  2 by subsection 2 shall be followed.  If a third plan is
  2  3 required under this subsection, the bill embodying it shall be
  2  4 delivered to the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk
  2  5 of the house of representatives not later than June 1 of the
  2  6 year ending in one, or twenty-one days after the date of the
  2  7 vote by which the senate or the house of representatives fails
  2  8 to approve the bill submitted under subsection 2, whichever
  2  9 date is later.  It is the intent of this chapter that, if it
  2 10 is necessary to submit a bill under this subsection, the bill
  2 11 be brought to a vote within the same time period after its
  2 12 delivery to the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of
  2 13 the house of representatives as is prescribed for the bill
  2 14 submitted under subsection 2, but shall be subject to
  2 15 amendment in the same manner as other bills as provided by
  2 16 this subsection.  The senate or the house of representatives
  2 17 shall be allowed to accept for filing as amendments only such
  2 18 amendments which constitute the total text of a congressional
  2 19 plan without striking a legislative redistricting plan, the
  2 20 total text of a legislative redistricting plan without
  2 21 striking a congressional plan, or the combined total text of a
  2 22 congressional plan and a legislative redistricting plan, and
  2 23 nonsubstantive, technical corrections to the text of any such
  2 24 bills or amendments.
  2 25    Sec. 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  2 26 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.  
  2 27                           EXPLANATION
  2 28    This bill concerns the consideration of proposed
  2 29 congressional and legislative redistricting bills by the house
  2 30 and senate.  The bill provides that if a proposed
  2 31 redistricting bill submitted by the legislative service bureau
  2 32 is rejected, the house rejecting the plan shall convey the
  2 33 reasons for the rejection to the bureau by resolution.  In
  2 34 addition, the bill provides that upon consideration of the
  2 35 third proposed redistricting bill submitted by the legislative
  3  1 service bureau, amendments to the plan are required to
  3  2 constitute an entire new congressional redistricting plan, an
  3  3 entire new legislative redistricting plan, or both, or be of a
  3  4 nonsubstantive or technical nature.
  3  5    The bill takes effect upon enactment.  
  3  6 LSB 1771HC 79
  3  7 ec/gg/8
     

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