[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1173 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1173

To provide that States may use redistricting systems for Congressional 
             districts other than single-member districts.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 1999

Mr. Watt of North Carolina (for himself, Mrs. Clayton, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. 
  Sanders, Mr. Cummings, Mrs. Jones of Ohio, Mr. Scott, Mr. Frank of 
  Massachusetts, Ms. Lee, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr.  Brown of 
    California, Mr. Hastings of Florida, and Mr. Davis of Illinois) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that States may use redistricting systems for Congressional 
             districts other than single-member districts.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``States' Choice of Voting Systems 
Act''.

SEC. 2. RIGHT OF STATES TO CHOOSE DISTRICTING SYSTEMS.

    The Act entitled ``An Act for the relief of Doctor Ricardo Vallejo 
Samala and to provide for congressional redistricting'', approved 
December 14, 1967 (2 U.S.C. 2c), is amended by striking ``In each 
State'' and all that follows and inserting the following:

``SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING.

    ``In each State entitled in the One Hundred Eighth Congress or in 
any Congress thereafter to more than one Representative in Congress 
under an apportionment made pursuant to the provisions of section 22(a) 
of the Act of June 18, 1929 (ch. 28; 46 Stat. 26)--
            ``(1) there may be established by law a number of districts 
        equal to the number of Representatives to which such State is 
        so entitled and Representatives may be elected only from 
        single-member districts so established, or
            ``(2) such State may establish a number of districts for 
        election of Representatives that is less than the number of 
        Representatives to which the State is entitled and 
        Representatives may be elected from single-member districts, 
        multi-member districts, or a combination of single-member and 
        multi-member districts, if that State uses a system that meets 
        the constitutional standard that each voter should have equal 
        voting power and does not violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965 
        (42 U.S.C. 1973 et seq.).''.
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