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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 158 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the use of independent nonpartisan commissions to carry out |
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| 6 | 6 | | congressional redistricting. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY3, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. F |
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| 10 | 10 | | ITZPATRICKintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 11 | 11 | | Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To require the use of independent nonpartisan commissions |
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| 14 | 14 | | to carry out congressional redistricting. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Citizen Legislature 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Anti-Corruption Reform of Elections Act’’ or the 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | ‘‘CLEAN Elections Act’’. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. REQUIRING USE OF INDEPENDENT NONPARTISAN 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | COMMISSIONS TO CARRY OUT REDIS-8 |
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| 23 | 23 | | TRICTING. 9 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) R |
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| 25 | 25 | | EQUIREMENT.— 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING .—Each 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | State shall conduct Congressional redistricting (be-2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ginning with the redistricting carried out pursuant 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | to the decennial census conducted during 2020) in 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | accordance with a redistricting plan developed by a 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | nonpartisan independent redistricting commission. 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (2) R |
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| 36 | 36 | | EDISTRICTING FOR STATE LEGISLATIVE 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | DISTRICTS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | law, a State may not use any funds provided by the 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | Federal Government directly for election administra-10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | tion purposes unless the State certifies to the Elec-11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | tion Assistance Commission that the State conducts 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | redistricting for State legislative districts in the 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | State (beginning with the first such redistricting 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | carried out after the date of the enactment of this 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | Act) in accordance with a redistricting plan devel-16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | oped by a nonpartisan independent redistricting 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | commission. 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (b) N |
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| 49 | 49 | | ONPARTISAN INDEPENDENT STATUS.—For 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | purposes of this section, a commission shall be considered 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | to be a nonpartisan independent commission if— 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (1) the number of its members who are affili-22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ated with the political party with the largest percent-23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | age of the registered voters in the State who are af-24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | filiated with a political party (as determined with re-25 |
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| 59 | 59 | | spect to the most recent statewide election for Fed-1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | eral office held in the State for which such informa-2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | tion is available) is equal to the number of its mem-3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | bers who are affiliated with the political party with 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | the second largest percentage of the registered vot-5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ers in the State who are affiliated with a political 6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | party (as so determined); and 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (2) none of its members is an elected public of-8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ficial. 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (c) S |
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| 69 | 69 | | TATEDEFINED.—In this section, the term 10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | ‘‘State’’ means each of the several States. 11 |
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