Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that amends the apportionment of state legislative districts.

Highlights:

-Establishes the apportionment board, which requires that members use a majority vote to decide on matters at their meetings (Sec. 1). -Requires that apportionment board meetings will convene by October 1st of every year and that the meetings are open to the public (Sec. 1). -Requires that the house of representative and senate population is equal in proportion to the population represented within a margin of 95 percent to 105 percent (Sec. 2). -Specifies that the district of a representative will be a single nonintersecting, contiguous line (Sec. 3). -Requires that each senator's district be composed of 3 contiguous House of Representative districts (Sec. 3). -Requires the secretary of state to inform the public of thorough and accurate census data, the boundaries of election precincts, a statewide partisan index, and an election precinct partisan index (Sec. 4). -Requires that the apportionment board administer a public competition in order to obtain the districts for the House of Representatives and Senate (Sec. 5). -Requires that the districts be broken down with the composition of districts reflecting the state partisan index (Sec. 5). -Establishes that the partisan index will be calculated by the district wide vote total in 3 elections to determine the partisan rating of each district (Sec. 5). -Authorizes that if there are 2 or more maps that meet the criteria then the map that shall be chosen is the one that preserves undivided municipalities (Sec. 5). -Specifies that the apportionment board will assign numbers to districts to minimize voter confusion (Sec. 6). -Authorizes that a person can change residence within 30 days of apportionment to be eligible for election (Sec. 8).

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