3.0.0 2342 2023-01-11T14:50:57Z 2023-01-11T14:50:57Z Senate S S 2007-11-13 110 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-11-13T20:34:41Z Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act of 2007 110 543 HR 2007-01-17 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Identical bill CRS 2007-11-13 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2007-11-13 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress J000177 Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD] TIM JOHNSON D SD N Congress Citizen participation Congressional districts Congressional elections Congressional powers District courts Economics and Public Finance Federal-state relations Gerrymandering Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Grants-in-aid Judicial review Law Public meetings State courts State laws State legislatures Voting rights Congress 00 2007-11-13 Introduced in Senate 2007-12-12T15:39:57Z Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act of 2007 - Prohibits a state that has been redistricted after an apportionment from being redistricted again until after the next apportionment of Representatives, unless the state is ordered by a court to conduct such a subsequent redistricting in order to: (1) comply with the U.S. Constitution; or (2) enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Requires such redistricting to be conducted through a plan developed by the independent redistricting commission established in the state, or if such plan is not enacted into law, the redistricting plan selected by the state's highest court or developed by a U.S. district court.

Prescribes requirements for: (1) establishment of a state independent redistricting commission; (2) development of a redistricting plan; (3) its submission to the state legislature; (4) selection of a plan, under specified conditions, by the state's highest court or the U.S. District court for the district in which the capital of the state is located; (5) special rules for redistricting conducted under a federal court order; and (6) Election Assistance Commission payments to states for carrying out redistricting.

]]> Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act of 2007 Display Title Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to prohibit States from carrying out more than one Congressional redistricting after a decennial census and apportionment, to require States to conduct such redistricting through independent commissions, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-11-13T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2342is/xml/BILLS-110s2342is.xml 2007-11-13 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.