Bipartisan Redistricting Commission; created, report. (SB38)
Introduced By
Sen.
Creigh Deeds (D-Bath)
Creigh Deeds
(D-Bath)
Served: 2001–
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Description
Bipartisan Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a five-member temporary commission to prepare redistricting plans in 2011 and each tenth year thereafter for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to the commission shall be made one each by the four majority and minority party leaders of the House and Senate from a pool of 24 retired judges appointed by the Supreme Court. Those four appointees shall appoint the fifth member and chairman for the commission from the pool. The commission will prepare plans and submit them to the General Assembly. The General Assembly may accept or reject the first two plans submitted by the commission and may amend the third plan submitted by the commission. The bill spells out the standards and process to be followed by the Commission in preparing plans, including opportunities for public comment on the plans. View Full Text »
Outcome
Video
Votes were cast on this bill on the following dates for which Richmond Sunlight has video: 01/30/2008, 01/30/2008, 01/31/2008, 02/01/2008, 02/01/2008, 02/04/2008, 02/04/2008, 02/05/2008, 02/12/2008, 02/13/2008 and 02/13/2008.
Comments
It's nice to see that Sen. Deeds hasn't forgotten about this issue now that he's in the majority. More than a few of the other Democrats certainly seem to have.
i think its nice to see del. armstrong has forgotten about the people in the 10th district about everything.the poor people anyways
Well, that was quite a non sequitur.
Looks like there are 8 redistricting bills. How's a person supposed to know which one(s) to support?
Citizens - Support
This is the only redistricting reform legislation up in the Senate - it will go to third read on Monday, Feb 4th. It is the supported legislation of the Virginia Redistricting Coalition and has been endorsed by Tim Kaine, Mark Warner, George Allen, and Bill Bolling.
waldo -- this bill is akin in many ways to the Iowa redistricting plan. Read the committee substitute that contains pieces from Deeds, Stolle, Cuccinelli, and Howell.
The impact statement reports that this bill would run the state a whopping $2,440.
The bill's cost is in FY2011, and thus need not be appropriated until the next biennial budget is considered.
I'll bet we can swing it. Heck, I'll take up a collection myself, if need be. :)
hah! I've already offered ;-)
Gerrymandering can be thwarted if the districts must conform to a geometric formula. The north-south extent can be limited to 0.5 to 2.0 times the east-west extent. As an alternative, the ratio of the perimeter to the square root of the area can be limited to less than 4.5.