Bill
Number: S.C.R. 1034
Yarbrough
Floor Amendment
Reference
to: printed resolution
Amendment
drafted by: Legislative Council
FLOOR
AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
1. Adds a ninth member
to the Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) who
serves as Chair.
2. Reinstates the
requirement that the Commission on Appellate Court
Appointments
provide a pool of five nominees who are not registered with any
party already
represented on the IRC to serve as the ninth member and chair of
the IRC.
3. Requires the eight
appointed IRC members to select the ninth member within 15
days of a meeting
called by the Secretary of State.
4. Specifies that if
the commissioners fail to appoint a ninth member within 15 days,
the ninth member
is determined by lot.
5. Reinserts
constitutional language that requires legislative districts to have equal
population to the
extent practicable and provides that such districts cannot
exceed an overall
population deviation of two percent.
6. Removes language
that authorizes the Legislature to refer a redistricting plan to a
vote of the people.
Fifty-third Legislature Yarbrough
Second
Regular Session S.C.R. 1034
YARBROUGH FLOOR AMENDMENT
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.C.R. 1034
(Reference to printed resolution)
Page 1, line
27, strike "eight" insert "nine"
Page 2,
between lines 24 and 25, insert:
"E. By January 8 of years ending in one, the commission on
appellate court APPOINTMENTS shall ESTABLISH a pool of persons who are willing
to serve on and are QUALIFIED for appointment to the INDEPENDENT redistricting
commission and who are not registered with either of the two largest political
parties in this state. the pool of candidates shall consist of five nominees."
Reletter to
conform
Page 3,
strike lines 12 through 24, insert:
"(8) G. At a meeting
called by the secretary of state, the four eight
independent redistricting commission members shall select by majority
vote from the nomination pool established by the commission on
appellate court appointments a fifth ninth member who shall not be registered with any party already
represented on the independent redistricting commission and who shall serve as
chair. If the four eight commissioners
fail to appoint a fifth ninth member
within fifteen days, the commission on appellate court
appointments or its designee, striving for political balance and fairness,
shall appoint a fifth ninth member shall
be determined by lot drawn from the nomination pool, who
and that ninth member shall serve as chair.
(9) H. The
five nine commissioners shall then
select by majority vote one of their members to serve as vice-chair."
Reletter to
conform
Page 4, line
29, after "practicable" strike remainder of line
Page 4,
strike lines 30 and 31, insert ", and state legislative districts shall
have equal population to the extent practicable SO THAT THE
POPULATION OF THE LARGEST LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT BY POPULATION SHALL NOT EXCEED
THE POPULATION OF THE SMALLEST LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT BY POPULATION BY MORE THAN
TWO PERCENT OF THE POPULATION OF THE SMALLEST DISTRICT. ; "
Strike lines
42 through 45
Page 5,
strike lines 16 through 20
Amend title to conform