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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 42
To prohibit States from carrying out more than one congressional redistricting
after a decennial census and apportionment.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY9, 2023
Ms. J
ACKSONLEEintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To prohibit States from carrying out more than one congres-
sional redistricting after a decennial census and appor-
tionment.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDING OF CONSTITUTIONAL 3
AUTHORITY. 4
(a) S
HORTTITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 5
‘‘Coretta Scott King Mid-Decade Redistricting Prohibition 6
Act of 2023’’. 7
(b) F
INDING.—Congress finds that it has the author-8
ity to establish the terms and conditions States must fol-9
low in carrying out congressional redistricting after an ap-10
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portionment of Members of the House of Representatives 1
because— 2
(1) the authority granted to Congress under ar-3
ticle I, section 4 of the Constitution of the United 4
States gives Congress the power to enact laws gov-5
erning the time, place, and manner of elections for 6
Members of the House of Representatives; and 7
(2) the authority granted to Congress under 8
section 5 of the fourteenth amendment to the Con-9
stitution gives Congress the power to enact laws to 10
enforce section 2 of such amendment, which requires 11
Representatives to be apportioned among the several 12
States according to their number. 13
SEC. 2. LIMIT ON CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING AFTER 14
AN APPORTIONMENT. 15
The Act entitled ‘‘An Act for the relief of Doctor Ri-16
cardo Vallejo Samala and to provide for congressional re-17
districting’’, approved December 14, 1967 (2 U.S.C. 2c), 18
is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘A State 19
which has been redistricted in the manner provided by law 20
after an apportionment under section 22(a) of the Act en-21
titled ‘An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent 22
decennial censuses and to provide for an apportionment 23
of Representatives in Congress’, approved June 18, 1929 24
(2 U.S.C. 2a), may not be redistricted again until after 25
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the next apportionment of Representatives under such sec-1
tion, unless a court requires the State to conduct such 2
subsequent redistricting to comply with the Constitution 3
or to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 4
1973 et seq.).’’. 5
SEC. 3. NO EFFECT ON ELECTIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL 6
OFFICE. 7
Nothing in this Act or in any amendment made by 8
this Act may be construed to affect the manner in which 9
a State carries out elections for State or local office, in-10
cluding the process by which a State establishes the dis-11
tricts used in such elections. 12
SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. 13
This Act and the amendment made by this Act shall 14
apply with respect to any congressional redistricting which 15
occurs after the regular decennial census conducted during 16
2020. 17
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