[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 830 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 830

To limit the redistricting that States may do after an apportionment of 
                            Representatives.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2005

  Ms. Waters introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To limit the redistricting that States may do after an apportionment of 
                            Representatives.

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

SECTION 1. LIMIT ON REDISTRICTING AFTER AN APPORTIONMENT OF 
              REPRESENTATIVES.

    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 adding at the end the 
following: ``A State that has been redistricted in the manner provided 
by the law thereof after an apportionment under section 22(a) of the 
Act entitled `An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent 
decennial censuses and to provide for an apportionment of 
Representatives in Congress', approved June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a), may 
not be so redistricted until after the next apportionment of 
Representatives under such section 22(a), unless the State is ordered 
by a Federal court to conduct such subsequent redistricting in order to 
comply with the Constitution of the United States or to enforce the 
Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973 et seq.) or otherwise enforce 
the voting rights of the people of that State.''.
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