Virginia House Bill 1996 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Standards and criteria for congressional and state legislative districts. Provides criteria by which congressional and state legislative districts are to be drawn, including equal population, compactness and contiguity, racial and ethnic fairness, protection of racial and language minorities to participate and elect a preferred candidate, and respect for existing political boundaries and communities of interest. The bill prohibits the use of political data when drawing districts. There is a delayed effective date of April 1, 2020.

Congressional and state legislative districts; standards and criteria.

Del. Marcia Price [D]	Sen. Lashrecse Aird [D]	Del. Debra Rodman [D]	Del. Mark Sickles [D]
Del. David Toscano [D]	Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg [D]	Del. Vivian Watts [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2019-01-07	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2019-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102235D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	304.04	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1996
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1996+hil