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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 44 

To prohibit States from carrying out more than one Congressional 

redistricting after a decennial census and apportionment. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 3, 2019 

Ms. JACKSON LEE 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 2019’’. 

8 (b) FINDING.—Congress finds that it has the author9 ity to establish the terms and conditions States must fol10 low in carrying out Congressional redistricting after an 


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1 apportionment of Members of the House of Representa2 tives because— 

3 (1) the authority granted to Congress under ar4 ticle I, section 4 of the Constitution of the United 

5 States gives Congress the power to enact laws gov6 erning the time, place, and manner of elections for 

7 Members of the House of Representatives; and 

8 (2) the authority granted to Congress under 

9 section 5 of the fourteenth amendment to the Con10 stitution gives Congress the power to enact laws to 

11 enforce section 2 of such amendment, which requires 

12 Representatives to be apportioned among the several 

13 States according to their number. 

14 SEC. 2. LIMIT ON CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING AFTER 

15 AN APPORTIONMENT. 

16 The Act entitled ‘‘An Act for the relief of Doctor Ri17 cardo Vallejo Samala and to provide for congressional re18 districting’’, approved December 14, 1967 (2 U.S.C. 2c), 

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

20 which has been redistricted in the manner provided by law 

21 after an apportionment under section 22(a) of the Act en22 titled ‘An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent 

23 decennial censuses and to provide for an apportionment 

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

25 (2 U.S.C. 2a), may not be redistricted again until after 


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1 the next apportionment of Representatives under such sec2 tion, unless a court requires the State to conduct such 

3 subsequent redistricting to comply with the Constitution 

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

5 1973 et seq.).’’. 

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

7 OFFICE. 

8 Nothing in this Act or in any amendment made by 

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

10 a State carries out elections for State or local office, in11 cluding the process by which a State establishes the dis12 tricts used in such elections. 

13 SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

14 This Act and the amendment made by this Act shall 

15 apply with respect to any Congressional redistricting 

16 which occurs after the regular decennial census conducted 

17 during 2020. 

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