Sec. 2401. Requiring congressional redistricting to be conducted through plan of independent State commission
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as provided in subsection
(c)and subsection (d), 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 part 2; or if a plan developed by such commission is not enacted into law, the redistricting plan developed and enacted into law by a 3-judge court, in accordance with section 2421. 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 Redistricting Reform Act of 2019 . Subsection
(a)does not apply to any State in which, under law in effect continuously on and after the date of the enactment of this Act, congressional redistricting is carried out in accordance with a plan developed and approved by an independent redistricting commission which is in compliance with each of the following requirements: Membership on the commission is open to citizens of the State through a publicly available application process. Individuals who, for a covered period of time as established by the State, hold or have held public office, individuals who are or have been candidates for elected public office, and individuals who serve or have served as an officer, employee, or paid consultant of a campaign committee of a candidate for public office are disqualified from serving on the commission. Individuals who apply to serve on the commission are screened through a process that excludes persons with conflicts of interest from the pool of potential commissioners. Membership on the commission represents those who are affiliated with the two political parties whose candidates received the most votes in the most recent Statewide election for Federal office held in the State, as well as those who are unaffiliated with any party or who are affiliated with political parties other than the two political parties whose candidates received the most votes in the most recent Statewide election for Federal office held in the State. Members of the commission are required to meet certain criteria in the map drawing process, including minimizing the division of communities of interest and a ban on drawing maps to favor a political party. Public hearings are held and comments from the public are accepted before a final map is approved. The approval of the final redistricting plan requires a majority vote of the members of the commission, including the support of at least one member of each of the following: Members who are affiliated with the political party whose candidate received the most votes in the most recent Statewide election for Federal office held in the State. Members who are affiliated with the political party whose candidate received the second most votes in the most recent Statewide election for Federal office held in the State. Members who not affiliated with any political party or who are affiliated with political parties other than the political parties described in subparagraphs
(A)and (B). Subsection
(a)does not apply to the State of Iowa, so long as congressional redistricting in such State is carried out in accordance with a plan developed by the Iowa Legislative Services Agency with the assistance of a Temporary Redistricting Advisory Commission, under law which was in effect for the most recent congressional redistricting carried out in the State prior to the date of the enactment of this Act and which remains in effect continuously on and after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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