Indiana Senate Bill 256 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Engrossed on April 20 2011 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-04-21 - First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment
Pending: House Elections and Apportionment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

States legislative policy relating to legal challenges to a redistricting plan. Provides that the speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tempore of the senate the legal positions of their respective chambers with regard to a legal challenge to the redistricting plan for their respective chambers. Establishes the 2011 Indiana house of representatives district plan. Establishes the 2011 Indiana senate district plan. Requires the office of census data, not later than July 1, 2011, to file with the election division description information for a precinct established before January 1, 2011. Requires the election division to immediately notify each county executive and county election board (or board of elections and registration) that the filing has occurred. Requires the county executive to submit to the election division, not later than January 1, 2012, additional information for or corrections to the filing, which will become the precinct boundaries for the county, or to notify the election division that the county executive will establish precincts by preparing a new precinct establishment order. Provides that the precinct descriptions filed by the office of census data are the descriptions the county must use for elections conducted after January 1, 2012, if the county executive does not notify the election division otherwise, and prohibits objections to those precinct descriptions. Requires a county executive to correct and file with the election division not later than January 1, 2012, any IEC-8 submitted before January 1, 2011, that contains incorrect information as the result of the 2011 congressional or legislative district plans. Provides that this process does not prohibit a county executive from establishing precincts using a precinct establishment order. Repeals the 2001 house of representatives district plan. Repeals the 2001 senate district plan.

Updates date references in the statute establishing general technical provisions relating to legislative redistricting.

Sen. Dorothy Landske [R]

Sen. Connie Lawson [R]

Sen. David Long [R]

2011-04-20 - Senate - Senate - Third reading: passed (Y: 36 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2011-04-19 - Senate - Senate - Amendment 3 (Lanane), failed (Y: 5 N: 28 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2011-04-19 - Senate - Senate - Amendment 4 (Taylor), failed (Y: 5 N: 28 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2011-04-19 - Senate - Senate - Amendment 1 (Lanane), failed (Y: 3 N: 28 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2011-04-19 - Senate - Senate - Amendment 6 (Landske), prevailed (Y: 27 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-04-21		First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment
2011-04-20		Cosponsor: Rep. Richardson
2011-04-20		House sponsor: Rep. Koch
2011-04-20		Referred to the House
2011-04-20		Amendment 7 ( Landske) and prevailed; voice vote
2011-04-20		Third reading: recommitted to Committee of One, amendment adopted, passed; Roll Call 407: yeas 36, nays 13
2011-04-19		Amendment 3 (Lanane), failed; Roll Call 392: yeas 12, nays 36
2011-04-19		Amendment 4 (Taylor), failed; Roll Call 391: yeas 12, nays 36
2011-04-19		Amendment 1 (Lanane), failed; Roll Call 390: yeas 11, nays 36
2011-04-19		Amendment 6 (Landske), prevailed; Roll Call 389: yeas 35, nays 13
2011-04-19		Amendment 5 (Landske), prevailed;
2011-04-19		Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2011-04-18		Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2011-04-07		Senator Lawson added as second author
2011-01-31		Senator Landske added as first author
2011-01-31		Senator Long removed as first author
2011-01-31		Committee report: amended, reassigned to Committee on Elections
2011-01-06		First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure
2011-01-06		Authored by Senator Long

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2011&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0256
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/IN/IN0256.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0256.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0256.2.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0256.3.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0256.4.html
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0389.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0390.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0391.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0392.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0407.PDF.pdf