SSB 1278 (LSB 5044XC (1) 89)

SENATE RESOLUTION NO. _____ 

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION RESOLUTION BY CHAIRPERSON WHITVER)

A Resolution advising the legislative services agency of the reasons for the Senate’s rejection of Senate File 620.

   WHEREAS, Joint Rule 24.1 requires that if either house rejects a redistricting plan submitted by the legislative services agency that house shall convey the reasons for such rejection to the legislative services agency by resolution; NOW THEREFORE,

   BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That Article III, section 34 of the Constitution of the State of Iowa states that “Each district so established shall be of compact and contiguous territory. The state shall be apportioned into senatorial and representative districts on the basis of population”; and

   BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That Iowa Code section 42.4(4) requires that districts shall be reasonably compact in form to the extent consistent with the requirements of population, district boundaries coinciding with political subdivisions, and be of convenient contiguous territory; and
   BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Senate requests a second plan implementing the criteria established in Article III, section 34 of the Constitution of the State of Iowa and Iowa Code section 42.4(4), by submitting a plan that better balances compactness with the legally mandated population deviation.