GREEN SHEET REDIGEST
HB 3 2022 First Extraordinary Session Thomas
(KEYWORD, SUMMARY, AND DIGEST as amended by Senate committee
amendments)
REAPPORTIONMENT/BESE: Provides relative to the election districts for the State
Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (Item #4)
DIGEST
Present constitution (Const. Art. VIII, ยง3(B)) provides that BESE is composed of 11
members, eight of whom are elected from single-member districts and three of whom are
appointed by the governor from the state at large.
Proposed law redraws district boundaries for the eight BESE districts, effective upon
signature of governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action for purposes of the 2023
election.
Proposed law retains present districts until noon, Jan. 8, 2024, at which time present law is
repealed and proposed districts are effective for all other purposes.
Proposed law specifies that precincts referenced in district descriptions are those precincts
identified as Voting Districts (VTDs) in the 2020 Census Redistricting TIGER/Line
Shapefiles for the state of La. as validated through the data verification program of the La.
legislature. Also specifies that if any such precinct has been subdivided by action of the
parish governing authority on a nongeographic basis or subdivided by action of the parish
governing authority on a geographic basis in accordance with present law, the enumeration
of the general precinct designation shall include all nongeographic and all geographic
subdivisions thereof. Further provides that the territorial limits of the districts as enacted
shall continue in effect until changed by law regardless of any subsequent change made to
the precincts by the parish governing authority.
Population data in the summaries accompanying this digest are derived from 2020 Census
Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171), Summary File for Louisiana. Population data,
statistical information, and maps are supplied for purposes of information and analysis and
comprise no part of proposed law.
Effective for election purposes only for the regular BESE elections in 2023; effective for all
other purposes at noon, January 8, 2024.
(Adds R.S. 17:2.2; repeals R.S. 17:2.1)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
The House Floor Amendments to the engrossed bill:
1. Makes changes to BESE districts 3 and 8.
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental
Affairs to the reengrossed bill
1. Makes technical changes to district boundaries.
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Prepared by LG Sullivan.