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4	4	STSESSION H. R. 157
5	5	To require the use of independent nonpartisan commissions to carry out
6	6	congressional redistricting and to require States to hold open primaries
7	7	for elections for Federal office.
8	8	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
9	9	JANUARY9, 2023
10	10	Mr. F
11	11	ITZPATRICKintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the
12	12	Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee
13	13	on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the
14	14	Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within
15	15	the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
16	16	A BILL
17	17	To require the use of independent nonpartisan commissions
18	18	to carry out congressional redistricting and to require
19	19	States to hold open primaries for elections for Federal
20	20	office.
21	21	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
22	22	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
23	23	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
24	24	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Citizen Legislature 4
25	25	Anti-Corruption Reform of Elections Act’’ or the 5
26	26	‘‘CLEAN Elections Act’’. 6
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30	30	SEC. 2. REQUIRING USE OF INDEPENDENT NONPARTISAN 1
31	31	COMMISSIONS TO CARRY OUT REDIS-2
32	32	TRICTING. 3
33	33	(a) R
34	34	EQUIREMENT.— 4
35	35	(1) C
36	36	ONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING .—Each 5
37	37	State shall conduct Congressional redistricting (be-6
38	38	ginning with the redistricting carried out pursuant 7
39	39	to the decennial census conducted during 2020) in 8
40	40	accordance with a redistricting plan developed by a 9
41	41	nonpartisan independent redistricting commission. 10
42	42	(2) R
43	43	EDISTRICTING FOR STATE LEGISLATIVE 11
44	44	DISTRICTS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of 12
45	45	law, a State may not use any funds provided by the 13
46	46	Federal Government directly for election administra-14
47	47	tion purposes unless the State certifies to the Elec-15
48	48	tion Assistance Commission that the State conducts 16
49	49	redistricting for State legislative districts in the 17
50	50	State (beginning with the first such redistricting 18
51	51	carried out after the date of the enactment of this 19
52	52	Act) in accordance with a redistricting plan devel-20
53	53	oped by a nonpartisan independent redistricting 21
54	54	commission. 22
55	55	(b) N
56	56	ONPARTISAN INDEPENDENT STATUS.—For 23
57	57	purposes of this section, a commission shall be considered 24
58	58	to be a nonpartisan independent commission if— 25
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62	62	(1) the number of its members who are affili-1
63	63	ated with the political party with the largest percent-2
64	64	age of the registered voters in the State who are af-3
65	65	filiated with a political party (as determined with re-4
66	66	spect to the most recent statewide election for Fed-5
67	67	eral office held in the State for which such informa-6
68	68	tion is available) is equal to the number of its mem-7
69	69	bers who are affiliated with the political party with 8
70	70	the second largest percentage of the registered vot-9
71	71	ers in the State who are affiliated with a political 10
72	72	party (as so determined); and 11
73	73	(2) none of its members is an elected public of-12
74	74	ficial. 13
75	75	(c) S
76	76	TATEDEFINED.—In this section, the term 14
77	77	‘‘State’’ means each of the several States. 15
78	78	SEC. 3. REQUIRING OPEN PRIMARIES. 16
79	79	(a) I
80	80	NGENERAL.— 17
81	81	(1) E
82	82	LECTIONS FOR FEDERAL OFFICE .—Each 18
83	83	State shall hold open primaries for elections for Fed-19
84	84	eral office held in the State. 20
85	85	(2) E
86	86	LECTIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL OF -21
87	87	FICE.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 22
88	88	a State may not use any funds provided by the Fed-23
89	89	eral Government directly for election administration 24
90	90	purposes unless the State certifies to the Election 25
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94	94	Assistance Commission that the State holds open 1
95	95	primaries for elections for State and local office. 2
96	96	(b) O
97	97	PENPRIMARIESDESCRIBED.—For purposes of 3
98	98	this section, a State holds open primaries for an election 4
99	99	for an office if any individual who is registered to vote 5
100	100	in a general election for such office in the State may cast 6
101	101	a ballot in any primary election (including a primary elec-7
102	102	tion held for the selection of delegates to a national nomi-8
103	103	nating convention of a political party and a primary elec-9
104	104	tion held for the expression of a preference for the nomina-10
105	105	tion of individuals for election to the office of President) 11
106	106	held by any political party to nominate candidates for elec-12
107	107	tion for that office, including a convention or caucus of 13
108	108	a political party which has authority to nominate a can-14
109	109	didate. 15
110	110	(c) S
111	111	TATEDEFINED.—In this section, the term 16
112	112	‘‘State’’ has the meaning given such term in section 901 17
113	113	of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21141). 18
114	114	(d) E
115	115	FFECTIVEDATE.—Subsection (a) shall apply 19
116	116	with respect to elections held after the date of the enact-20
117	117	ment of this Act. 21
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