2015-07-10 Introduced in House Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that:

• Congress should establish a federal reapportionment system that would create compact and contiguous congressional districts that, to the greatest extent possible, follow geographic boundaries and county lines;
• congressional districts should not favor or disfavor an incumbent or political party;
• congressional districts should adhere to the existing standards of equal population; and
• the highest court of each state should have the power to reject congressional district maps that do not meet the above criteria.

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