Amend House File 2322 as follows:
   1.  Page 2, line 33, after <submit the> by inserting <plan to the board of supervisors for the county who shall approve or reject the plan as expeditiously as possible. The board of supervisors shall notify the state commissioner of the action taken and, if the plan is rejected, provide the state commissioner written reasons for the rejection of the plan. If the plan is rejected, the state commissioner shall direct the legislative services agency to prepare a second supervisor districting plan for the county. The legislative services agency shall draw the plan in accordance with the standards for a supervisor districting plan as described in this subparagraph and, insofar as it is possible to do so within the requirements for a supervisor districting plan, in accordance with the reasons cited by the board of supervisors by resolution for the rejection of the first plan. The legislative services agency shall submit the second>

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BALTIMORE of Boone