Bill Text: WV HB2099 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Redistricting of the Senate into 16 two-member senatorial districts and redistricting the House into 96 single member districts
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-10 - To House Political Subdivisions [HB2099 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2021-HB2099-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2021 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2099
By Delegate Doyle
[Introduced February 10, 2021; Referred to the Committee on Political Subdivisions then the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend and reenact §1-2-2c of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the redistricting of the Senate into 16 two-member senatorial districts and redistricting the House into 96 single member districts; how future house districts are to be drawn; and, that the redistricting is to begin in 2022 based on the 2010 census.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 2. APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATION.
(a) Upon the reapportionment and redistricting of the
Legislature following the United States Census, in 2022 and in
each subsequent reapportionment and redistricting, the House of Delegates shall
be composed of one hundred 96 single member districts and the Senate
shall be composed of 16 two-member districts, with apportionment to meet
constitutional standards.
(b) Each Senate district shall contain six House of Delegates districts. Every 10 years the House of Delegates and the Senate shall alternate or switch the priority as to which house is the first to reapportion its districts.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to create 16 two-member senatorial districts and 96 single-member delegate districts based on the 2010 census and implemented during the 2022 elections.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
