Virginia Senate Bill 742 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 12 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-02-23 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a five-member commission to prepare redistricting plans 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. Those four appointees shall appoint the fifth member and chair of the Commission. If they cannot agree on the fifth member by a majority of at least three members, they shall submit the names of the two persons receiving the most votes to the Supreme Court of Virginia for the Court to select the chairman. The Commission will prepare plans and submit them as bills to the General Assembly. The General Assembly shall then proceed to act on the bills in the usual manner. The bill provides for Commission comments on plans as they change in the legislative process. The bill also spells out the standards and process to be followed by the Commission in preparing plans, including limitations on the use of political data and opportunities for public comment on the plans.

Virginia Redistricting Commission; established.

Sen. John Miller [D]

2013-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (33-Y 7-N) (Y: 33 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-01-24 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-01-22 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (11-Y 4-N) (Y: 11 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-23	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2013-02-11	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2013-02-04	House	Assigned P & E sub: Constitutional Amendments Subcommittee
2013-02-02	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2013-02-02	House	Read first time
2013-02-02	House	Placed on Calendar
2013-01-28	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (33-Y 7-N)
2013-01-25	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2013-01-24	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2013-01-22	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections (11-Y 4-N)
2012-12-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2012-12-12	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101449D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	301.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	301.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	301.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+SB742
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+SB742+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+S08V0039+SB0742
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+SV0151SB0742+SB0742
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+SV0180SB0742+SB0742