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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2490 

To prohibit States from carrying out more than one Congressional 

redistricting after a decennial census and apportionment. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 25, 2013 

Ms. JACKSON LEE (for herself, Ms. CLARKE, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, 

Mr. VEASEY, and Mr. PAYNE) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To prohibit States from carrying out more than one Congressional redistricting after a decennial census and apportionment. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDING OF CONSTITUTIONAL 

4 AUTHORITY. 

5 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 

6 ‘‘Coretta Scott King Mid-Decade Redistricting Prohibition 

7 Act of 2013’’. 

8 (b) FINDING.—Congress finds that it has the author9 ity to establish the terms and conditions States must folVerDate Mar 15 2010 22:20 Jul 01, 2013 Jkt 029200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2490.IH H2490

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1 low in carrying out Congressional redistricting after an 

2 apportionment of Members of the House of Representa3 tives because— 

4 (1) the authority granted to Congress under ar5 ticle I, section 4 of the Constitution of the United 

6 States gives Congress the power to enact laws gov7 erning the time, place, and manner of elections for 

8 Members of the House of Representatives; and 

9 (2) the authority granted to Congress under 

10 section 5 of the fourteenth amendment to the Con11 stitution gives Congress the power to enact laws to 

12 enforce section 2 of such amendment, which requires 

13 Representatives to be apportioned among the several 

14 States according to their number. 

15 SEC. 2. LIMIT ON CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING AFTER 

16 AN APPORTIONMENT. 

17 The Act entitled ‘‘An Act for the relief of Doctor Ri18 cardo Vallejo Samala and to provide for congressional re19 districting’’, approved December 14, 1967 (2 U.S.C. 2c), 

20 is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘A State 

21 which has been redistricted in the manner provided by law 

22 after an apportionment under section 22(a) of the Act en23 titled ‘An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent 

24 decennial censuses and to provide for an apportionment 

25 of Representatives in Congress’, approved June 18, 1929 


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1 (2 U.S.C. 2a), may not be redistricted again until after 

2 the next apportionment of Representatives under such sec3 tion, unless a court requires the State to conduct such 

4 subsequent redistricting to comply with the Constitution 

5 or to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 

6 1973 et seq.).’’. 

7 SEC. 3. NO EFFECT ON ELECTIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL 

8 OFFICE. 

9 Nothing in this Act or in any amendment made by 

10 this Act may be construed to affect the manner in which 

11 a State carries out elections for State or local office, in12 cluding the process by which a State establishes the dis13 tricts used in such elections. 

14 SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

15 This Act and the amendment made by this Act shall 

16 apply with respect to any Congressional redistricting 

17 which occurs after the regular decennial census conducted 

18 during 2020. 

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