Virginia House Bill 877 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-02-07 - Incorporates HB877 (Sickles)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Redistricting; Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes Redistricting; Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission (the Commission) pursuant to proposed amendments to Article II of the Constitution of Virginia, amending Section 6 and adding Section 6-A. The Commission, tasked with establishing districts for the United States House of Representatives and for the Senate and the House of Delegates of the General Assembly, will consist of eight legislative commissioners and eight citizen commissioners. The legislative commissioners consist of four members of the Senate of Virginia and four members of the House of Delegates, with equal representation given to the political parties having the highest and next highest number of members in their respective houses. The citizen commissioners are chosen by a selection committee consisting of five retired judges of the circuit courts of Virginia, from lists submitted to the selection committee by the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the leader in the House of Delegates of the political party having the next highest number of members in the House of Delegates, the President pro tempore of the Senate of Virginia, and the leader in the Senate of the political party having the next highest number of members in the Senate. The bill contains eligibility requirements for the citizen commissioners, including restrictions on holding or having held partisan national or state public office. As part of the application process for service on the Commission, the Division of Legislative Services acts as a repository for applications submitted by interested persons and is tasked with screening out applicants who are ineligible or submit incomplete applications. The applications of the citizen candidates selected by political leadership and submitted for consideration to the selection committee

Redistricting; establishes Virginia Redistricting Commission.

Del. Mark Sickles [D]

Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-07	House	Incorporates HB877 (Sickles)
2020-02-07	House	Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
2020-02-06	House	Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB758-VanValkenburg) by voice vote
2020-02-05	House	Assigned P & E sub: Redistricting
2020-01-07	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2020-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100373D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	306	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	309.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB877
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB877+hil