Sec. 8. Prohibition on mid-decade districting

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A State that has an approved remedial districting plan in accordance with section 5 may not be redistricted again until after the next apportionment of Representatives under section 22(a) 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 ), unless a court requires the State to conduct such subsequent redistricting to comply with the Constitution of the United States, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ( 52 U.S.C. 10301 et seq.), the Constitution of the State, or the terms or conditions of this Act.

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Prohibition on mid-decade districting

U.S.C.§ 2a

U.S.C.§ 10301

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