Virginia House Joint Resolution 628 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-08 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the 13-member Commission are to be made as follows: two each by the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the minority leader in each house, and the state chairman of each of the two political parties receiving the most votes in the prior gubernatorial election. The 12 partisan members then select the thirteenth member by a majority vote or, if they cannot agree on a selection, certify the two names receiving the most votes to the Supreme Court of Virginia, which will name the thirteenth member. The standards to govern redistricting plans include the current constitutional standards on population equality, compactness, and contiguity and additional standards to minimize splits of localities and to prohibit consideration of incumbency and political data.

Constitutional amendment; Virginia Redistricting Commission established (first reference).

Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Del. Steve Heretick [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]
Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Paul Krizek [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Joesph Lindsey [D]
Del. Michael Mullin [D]	Del. Marcia Price [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. Marcus Simon [D]
Del. Roslyn Tyler [D]	Del. Vivian Watts [D]

2017-01-30 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 3-N) (Y: 4 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-08	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2017-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 3-N)
2017-01-11	House	Assigned P & E sub: Constitutional
2017-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2017-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101547D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HJ628
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HJ628+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H1803V0013+HJ0628