SEC. 
5. 
NOTIFICATION 
OF 
CONGRESSIONAL 
REDIS-
TRICTING PLAN PROPOSED TO BE ADOPTED 
BY REDISTRICTING ENTITY; OPPORTUNITIES 
FOR PUBLIC TO RESPOND. 
(a) NOTICE OF PROPOSED FINAL PLAN.—Not later 
than 10 days prior to holding a final vote on the adoption 
of a final congressional redistricting plan for the State, 
the State redistricting entity shall post information about 
the plan on the internet site established under section 3, 
including at a minimum the following: 
(1) An analysis of the proposed final plan, in-
cluding— 
(A) a map showing each congressional dis-
trict established under the plan, together with 
easily accessible digital files containing the 
block equivalency and shapefiles for each such 
district; 
(B) a statement of the total population, 
the voting age population, and citizen popu-
lation of each such district, broken down by 
race and membership in a language minority 
group; 
(C) a statement of the number of reg-
istered voters in each such district, broken 
down by political party affiliation to the extent 
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that such information is available under State 
law; 
(D) a statement of the results in each such 
district for all statewide elections conducted in 
the State in the 6 years preceding the year in 
which the most recent decennial census was 
conducted; 
(E) an analysis of the plan’s compliance 
with applicable laws, including the Voting 
Rights Act of 1965; 
(F) an assessment of the partisan fairness 
of the plan under one or more standard quan-
titative measures of partisan bias; 
(G) a statement identifying all individuals 
and entities responsible for the drafting of, or 
who were consulted in conjunction with drafting 
of, the plan; and 
(H) a statement describing any changes 
made to the plan in response to input from 
members of the public. 
(2) A statement explaining the entity’s reasons 
for adopting the proposed final plan and the reasons 
why the adoption of the plan, as opposed to the 
adoption of alternative plans, will best serve the pub-
lic interest, together with an assessment of how the 
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plan is consistent with the policies described in sec-
tion 3(a)(1). 
(3) Any dissenting statement of any member of 
the entity who did not approve the proposed final 
plan. 
(4) A statement that members of the public 
may submit comments regarding the proposed final 
plan through the internet site, together with infor-
mation on how members of the public may submit 
such comments to the entity through other methods. 
(b) PUBLIC HEARING PRIOR TO ADOPTION OF FINAL 
PLAN.— 
(1) MANDATORY PUBLIC HEARING.—Not later 
than 7 days prior to holding a final vote on the 
adoption of the final congressional redistricting plan 
for the State, the State redistricting entity shall hold 
hearings in accordance with the requirements of sec-
tion 4 at which members of the public may provide 
comments on the plan. 
(2) VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPTS OF HEARINGS.— 
The entity shall post a link to a video recording of 
each such hearing on the internet site established 
under section 3 immediately following the conclusion 
of the hearing, and shall publish and post on such 
website a searchable version of a transcript of the 
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hearing not later than 48 hours after the conclusion 
of the hearing. 
(c) TREATMENT OF AMENDED AND NEW PLANS.— 
If the State redistricting entity posts an amended version 
of the proposed final congressional redistricting plan or 
posts a new proposed final congressional redistricting 
plan, subsections (a) and (b) shall apply with respect to 
the amended version of the plan or the new plan in the 
same manner as such subsections apply with respect to 
the proposed final plan which is first posted under sub-
section (a). 
(d) APPLICATION TO SUBORDINATE ENTITIES HOLD-
ING VOTES ON RECOMMENDING ADOPTION OF PLAN.— 
If a subordinate entity of a State redistricting entity de-
scribed in section 2(a)(2), including a committee or sub-
committee of the State redistricting entity, is directed 
under State law to hold a vote on recommending the adop-
tion of a final congressional redistricting plan to the State 
redistricting entity, subsections (a) and (b) shall apply 
with respect to the subordinate entity and the vote held 
by the subordinate entity on recommending the adoption 
of the plan in the same manner as such subsections apply 
to the State redistricting entity and the final vote held 
on the adoption of the final plan by the State redistricting 
entity. 
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SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION TO REDISTRICTING 
CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO 2020 CENSUS FOR 
CERTAIN STATES. 
(a) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This Act and the amend-
ments made by this Act shall apply with respect to any 
congressional redistricting which occurs after the regular 
decennial census conducted during 2030. 
(b) APPLICATION TO REDISTRICTING CONDUCTED 
PURSUANT TO 2020 CENSUS FOR STATES WITHOUT EN-
ACTED CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING PLANS.—If a 
State is ordered by a court to revise its congressional re-
districting plan for conducting redistricting pursuant to 
the regular decennial census conducted during 2020, and 
the State has not enacted such a final congressional redis-
tricting plan as of the date of the enactment of this Act, 
this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall apply 
with respect to congressional redistricting in the State 
which is conducted pursuant to the regular decennial cen-
sus conducted during 2020, except that— 
(1) the State shall establish the internet site de-
scribed in section 3 as soon as practicable after the 
date of the enactment of this Act; and 
(2) the State redistricting entity shall begin to 
solicit the input of members of the public under sec-
tion 4(b) not later than 30 days after the court 
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issues the order to the State or such earlier deadline 
as the court may require under the order. 
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