Sec. 3. Requiring congressional redistricting to be conducted through plan of independent State commission
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any Congressional redistricting conducted by a State shall be conducted in accordance with— the redistricting plan developed and enacted into law by the independent redistricting commission established in the State, in accordance with section 5; or if a plan developed by such commission is not enacted into law, the redistricting plan selected by the highest court in the State or developed by a United States district court, in accordance with section 6. Paragraph
(1)does not apply to a State in which, under law that is in effect continuously on and after the date of the enactment of this Act, Congressional redistricting is conducted in accordance with a plan developed by a nonpartisan independent commission. For purposes of this paragraph, a commission shall be considered to be a nonpartisan independent commission if the number of its members who are affiliated with the political party with the largest percentage of the registered voters in the State who are affiliated with a political party (as determined with respect to the most recent Statewide election for Federal office held in the State for which such information is available) is equal to the number of its members who are affiliated with the political party with the second largest percentage of the registered voters in the State who are affiliated with a political party (as so determined). Section 22(c) of the Act entitled An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for an apportionment of Representatives in Congress , approved June 18, 1929 ( 2 U.S.C. 2a(c) ), is amended by striking in the manner provided by the law thereof and inserting: in the manner provided by the Let the People Draw the Lines Act of 2013 .
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Requiring congressional redistricting to be conducted through plan of independent State commission
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