After receiving the reports of the various town and city BCAs, the LAB will prepare a tentative plan to submit to the General Assembly. Not all BCA recommendations can be approved, of course, as there are bound to be disagreements among the various towns. The Vermont House and Senate are responsible for adopting a final plan to the General Assembly, and will use committees to design a proposed final plan, which must be adopted by both chambers of the legislature. The product of these deliberations is an act of legislation, which then becomes the basis for a second round of BCA decisions in 2002. These decisions involve the subdivision of the initial districts into representative districts.
Representative districts are the final product of redistricting.
They are the political subdivisions that actually elect House members. Representative districts may have one or two seats. You will receive more information about that process when the LAB has completed its initial district plan and again next spring if you are a municipality with a need to subdivide its initial district. The LAB will hold public hearings during the spring in the following locations. The purpose of these hearings is to hear from the public and from local officials about their ideas for the initial districts.