A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning the general assembly.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not provide specific details on the consequences of a court order invalidating parts of a redistricting plan, only that such an exception exists.

Redistricting Standards for Indiana

This bill sets rules for drawing new voting districts for state and congressional representatives in Indiana.

What This Bill Does

• Establishes standards that must be followed when creating initial plans to draw new voting areas for state legislative and congressional districts.
• Allows the general assembly to make changes to these initial plans during the process of enacting them as law, provided reasons are publicly explained and documented.
• Limits the ability of the general assembly to establish or modify legislative or congressional districts except at the first regular session following a federal decennial census, unless responding to a court order invalidating part of a redistricting plan.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Indiana General Assembly
• People who live in Indiana and vote for representatives

Terms To Know

Redistricting standards

Rules that must be followed when drawing new voting areas.

General assembly

The state legislature of Indiana, which makes laws for the state.

Limits and Unknowns

• It is unclear when this bill will become law and start affecting voting districts.

Official Summary Text

A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning the general assembly.
Redistricting standards.

Current Bill Text

A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning the general assembly.

Redistricting standards.

Establishes redistricting standards for state legislative congressional districts. Requires the initial proposed plans for congressional and state legislative districts to comply with the redistricting standards. Allows the general assembly, during the process by which the initial proposed plans become effective by being enacted as a law, to consider and adopt modifications to the initial proposed plans that deviate from the redistricting standards as long as the reason or reasons for each deviation are publicly explained and documented. Specifies that the general assembly may not establish or modify legislative or congressional districts other than at the first regular session of the general assembly convening immediately following the federal decennial census, except in response to a court order that has invalidated some part of a redistricting plan.