Virginia Senate Bill 975 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 15 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-02-04 - Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Redistricting; Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes Redistricting; Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission (the Commission) pursuant to Article II, Sections 6 and 6-A of the Constitution of Virginia. 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

Redistricting; establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission.

Sen. Emmett Hanger [R]

2020-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-04	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
2020-01-15	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2020-01-15	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 20104335D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	306	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	309.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB975
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB975+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S08V0105+SB0975