Bill Text: TX HB352 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the composition of the districts for the election of members of the United States House of Representatives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-25 - Referred to Redistricting [HB352 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB352-Introduced.html
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| By: King of Parker | H.B. No. 352 | |
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| relating to the composition of the districts for the election of | ||
| members of the United States House of Representatives. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to fulfill the | ||
| legislature's duty to redraw the districts for the election of the | ||
| members of the United States House of Representatives elected from | ||
| this state in compliance with the United States and Texas | ||
| Constitutions and applicable federal law following the publication | ||
| of the 2020 federal decennial census and the decennial | ||
| reapportionment of representative districts among the states. | ||
| SECTION 2. The districts from which the members of the | ||
| United States House of Representatives are elected are the | ||
| districts as provided by law and used for the election of the | ||
| members of the House of Representatives of the 117th Congress of the | ||
| United States except as those districts are changed by Section 3 of | ||
| this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) The portion of Congressional District 13 | ||
| located in Wise County tract 150601, block 4008, is transferred to | ||
| Congressional District 12. | ||
| (b) The portion of Congressional District 22 located in | ||
| Brazoria County tract 661800, block 2050, is transferred to | ||
| Congressional District 14. | ||
| (c) The portion of Congressional District 10 located in | ||
| Bastrop County tract 950502, block 1170, is transferred to House | ||
| District 27. | ||
| SECTION 4. In this Act, "tract," "block group," and "block" | ||
| mean the geographic areas identified by those terms on the 2010 | ||
| Census TIGER/Line Shapefiles, prepared by the federal Bureau of the | ||
| Census for the Twenty-third Decennial Census of the United States, | ||
| enumerated as of April 1, 2010. | ||
| SECTION 5. It is the intention of the Texas Legislature | ||
| that, if any county, tract, block group, block, or other geographic | ||
| area has erroneously been left out of this Act, a court reviewing | ||
| this Act should include that area in the appropriate district in | ||
| accordance with the intent of the legislature, using any available | ||
| evidence of that intent, including evidence such as that used by the | ||
| Supreme Court of Texas in Smith v. Patterson, 111 Tex. 535, 242 S.W. | ||
| 749 (1922). | ||
| SECTION 6. (a) This Act supersedes all previous enactments | ||
| or orders adopting districts for the United States House of | ||
| Representatives. All previous acts of the legislature adopting | ||
| districts for the United States House of Representatives are | ||
| repealed. | ||
| (b) Chapter 3 (S.B. 4), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, 1st | ||
| Called Session, 2013, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 7. The districts established in this Act apply to | ||
| the election of the members of the United States House of | ||
| Representatives beginning with the primary and general elections in | ||
| 2022 for members of the 118th Congress of the United States. This | ||
| Act does not affect the membership or districts of the United States | ||
| House of Representatives for the 117th Congress of the United | ||
| States. | ||
| SECTION 8. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
