or any other person, is made available on the site not later 
than 72 hours after submission. 
(c) UPDATING OF INFORMATION.—The State redis-
tricting entity shall take all actions necessary to ensure 
that the site established under this section is updated con-
tinuously to provide timely advance notice of the entity’s 
meetings and to otherwise provide timely information on 
the entity’s activities. 
(d) MULTIPLE LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS.—All of 
the information which is described in paragraphs (1), (2), 
and (6) of subsection (a) of this section shall be posted 
and published in any language in which the State (or any 
jurisdiction in the State) is required to provide election 
materials under section 203 of the Voting Rights Act of 
1965 (52 U.S.C. 10503). 
(e) DEADLINE; PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION.— 
(1) DEADLINE.—The State redistricting entity 
shall establish the internet site required under this 
section not later than August 1 of the year in which 
the regular decennial census is conducted. 
(2) PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION.—All in-
formation on the internet site established under this 
section with respect to a congressional redistricting 
plan shall be preserved in an accessible format for 
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a period of not less than 10 years following adoption 
of the plan. 
SEC. 4. PUBLIC HEARINGS AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES 
FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN INITIAL DE-
VELOPMENT 
OF 
CONGRESSIONAL 
REDIS-
TRICTING PLANS. 
(a) REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—To ensure that development 
of the State’s congressional redistricting plan is in-
formed by public input, the State redistricting entity 
shall hold hearings before and after the development 
of any proposed congressional redistricting plans. 
Such hearings— 
(A) shall be held in different regions of the 
State, with an option for participants to partici-
pate virtually, and shall be streamed live on the 
public internet site maintained by the State re-
districting entity under section 3; and 
(B) shall be sufficient in number, sched-
uled at times and places, and noticed and con-
ducted in a manner to ensure that all members 
of the public, including members of racial, eth-
nic, and language minorities protected under 
the Voting Rights Act of 1965, have a meaning-
ful opportunity to attend and provide input 
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both before and after the entity releases pro-
posed plans, including— 
(i) comments on the criteria the entity 
will use to develop the plans; 
(ii) the content of the plans; and 
(iii) any other issues relating to con-
gressional redistricting in the State. 
(2) DEVELOPMENT AND ADOPTION OF SCHED-
ULE.— 
(A) INITIAL PROPOSED SCHEDULE.—Prior 
to conducting hearings under this section, the 
State redistricting entity shall develop and pub-
lish a proposed schedule of hearings that it de-
termines are sufficient in number to ensure 
that persons in all parts of the State, including 
members of racial, ethnic, and language minori-
ties protected under the Voting Rights Act of 
1965, have a meaningful opportunity to provide 
input and comments regarding the contents of 
redistricting plans for the State, except that the 
number of hearings under the proposed sched-
ule may not be fewer than three. 
(B) PUBLIC
RESPONSE
TO
PROPOSED 
SCHEDULE.—Following publication of the pro-
posed schedule of hearings under subparagraph 
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(A), members of the public shall have a period 
of not less than ten days to comment on the 
number of proposed hearings, their dates, 
times, and locations, and the processes by which 
the State redistricting entity proposes to pro-
vide notice of such hearings and ensure that the 
hearings are equally open to all members of the 
communities where the hearings are to take 
place. 
(C) PUBLICATION
OF
FINAL
SCHEDULE; 
OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADDITIONAL HEARINGS.— 
After giving due consideration to any comments 
received under subparagraph (B), the State re-
districting entity shall publish a final schedule 
of hearings under this section, except that noth-
ing in this paragraph may be construed to pro-
hibit the entity from holdings additional hear-
ings under this section if the entity determines 
that additional hearings are necessary to enable 
the entity to obtain the information it needs to 
obtain sufficient public input on proposed redis-
tricting plans. 
(b) OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPA-
TION.—Beginning on the date the State receives the notice 
of the number of Representatives to which the State is 
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entitled in the following Congress under section 22(b) of 
the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the fifteenth and 
subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for an ap-
portionment of Representatives in Congress’’, approved 
June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a), and continuing for not fewer 
than 60 days thereafter, the State redistricting entity shall 
solicit the input of members of the public in its work to 
develop proposed congressional redistricting plans for the 
State by carrying out the following activities: 
(1) Posting on the internet site established 
under section 3 the criteria which the entity will use 
to develop the congressional redistricting plan for 
the State. 
(2) Posting on the internet site established 
under section 3 a link to a video recording of each 
such hearing not later than 24 hours after the con-
clusion of the hearing and posting on the site a 
searchable version of the transcript of each such 
hearing not later than 5 days after the conclusion of 
the hearing. 
(3) Engaging in outreach to provide informa-
tion to and encourage participation in the redis-
tricting process by communities with limited access 
to the internet or who may be difficult to reach 
through English-language media. 
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