members of the public may provide input and 
comments regarding the preliminary plan. 
(B) MINIMUM PERIOD FOR NOTICE PRIOR 
TO HEARINGS.—Not fewer than 14 days prior 
to the date of each hearing held under this 
paragraph, the commission shall post notices of 
the hearing in on the website maintained under 
subsection (b)(2), and shall provide for the pub-
lication of such notices in newspapers of general 
circulation throughout the State. Each such no-
tice shall specify the date, time, and location of 
the hearing. 
(6) 
PERMITTING
MULTIPLE
PRELIMINARY 
PLANS.—At the option of the commission, after de-
veloping and publishing the preliminary redistricting 
plan under this subsection, the commission may de-
velop and publish subsequent preliminary redis-
tricting plans, so long as the process for the develop-
ment and publication of each such subsequent plan 
meets the requirements set forth in this subsection 
for the development and publication of the first pre-
liminary redistricting plan. 
(d) PROCESS FOR ENACTMENT OF FINAL REDIS-
TRICTING PLAN.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—After taking into consider-
ation comments from the public on any preliminary 
redistricting plan developed and published under 
subsection (c), the independent redistricting commis-
sion of a State shall develop and publish a final re-
districting plan for the State. 
(2) MEETING; FINAL VOTE.—Not later than the 
deadline specified in subsection (h), the commission 
shall hold a public hearing at which the members of 
the commission shall vote on approving the final 
plan for enactment into law. 
(3) PUBLICATION OF PLAN AND ACCOMPANYING 
MATERIALS.—Not fewer than 14 days before the 
date of the meeting under paragraph (2), the com-
mission shall provide the following information to 
the public through the website maintained under 
subsection (b)(2), as well as through newspapers of 
general circulation throughout the State: 
(A) The final redistricting plan, including 
all relevant maps. 
(B) A report by the commission to accom-
pany the plan which provides the background 
for the plan and the commission’s reasons for 
selecting the plan as the final redistricting plan, 
including responses to the public comments re-
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ceived on any preliminary redistricting plan de-
veloped and published under subsection (c). 
(C) Any dissenting or additional views with 
respect to the plan of individual members of the 
commission. 
(4) ENACTMENT.—The final redistricting plan 
developed and published under this subsection shall 
be deemed to be enacted into law if— 
(A) the plan is approved by a majority of 
the whole membership of the commission; and 
(B) at least one member of the commission 
appointed from each of the categories of the ap-
proved selection pool described in section 
312(b)(1) approves the plan. 
(e) WRITTEN EVALUATION OF PLAN AGAINST EX-
TERNAL METRICS.—The independent redistricting com-
mission shall include with each redistricting plan devel-
oped and published under this section a written evaluation 
that measures each such plan against external metrics 
which cover the criteria set forth in paragraph (1) of sub-
section (a), including the impact of the plan on the ability 
of communities of color to elect candidates of choice, 
measures of partisan fairness using multiple accepted 
methodologies, and the degree to which the plan preserves 
or divides communities of interest. 
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(f) TIMING.—The independent redistricting commis-
sion of a State may begin its work on the redistricting 
plan of the State upon receipt of relevant population infor-
mation from the Bureau of the Census, and shall approve 
a final redistricting plan for the State in each year ending 
in the numeral one not later than 8 months after the date 
on which the State receives the State apportionment notice 
or October 1, whichever occurs later. 
SEC. 314. ESTABLISHMENT OF RELATED ENTITIES. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT
OR DESIGNATION
OF NON-
PARTISAN AGENCY OF STATE LEGISLATURE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each State shall establish a 
nonpartisan agency in the legislative branch of the 
State government to appoint the members of the 
independent redistricting commission for the State 
in accordance with section 311. 
(2) NONPARTISANSHIP DESCRIBED.—For pur-
poses of this subsection, an agency shall be consid-
ered to be nonpartisan if under law the agency— 
(A) is required to provide services on a 
nonpartisan basis; 
(B) is required to maintain impartiality; 
and 
(C) is prohibited from advocating for the 
adoption or rejection of any legislative proposal. 
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(3) TRAINING
OF
MEMBERS
APPOINTED
TO 
COMMISSION.—Not later than January 15 of a year 
ending in the numeral one, the nonpartisan agency 
established or designated under this subsection shall 
provide the members of the independent redistricting 
commission with initial training on their obligations 
as members of the commission, including obligations 
under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other ap-
plicable laws. 
(4) REGULATIONS.—The nonpartisan agency 
established or designated under this subsection shall 
adopt and publish regulations, after notice and op-
portunity for comment, establishing the procedures 
that the agency will follow in fulfilling its duties 
under this Act, including the procedures to be used 
in vetting the qualifications and political affiliation 
of applicants and in creating the selection pools, the 
randomized process to be used in selecting the initial 
members of the independent redistricting commis-
sion, and the rules that the agency will apply to en-
sure that the agency carries out its duties under this 
Act in a maximally transparent, publicly accessible, 
and impartial manner. 
(5) DESIGNATION
OF
EXISTING
AGENCY.—At 
its option, a State may designate an existing agency 
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in the legislative branch of its government to appoint 
the members of the independent redistricting com-
mission plan for the State under this Act, so long 
as the agency meets the requirements for non-
partisanship under this subsection. 
(6) TERMINATION
OF
AGENCY
SPECIFICALLY 
ESTABLISHED FOR REDISTRICTING.—If a State does 
not designate an existing agency under paragraph 
(5) but instead establishes a new agency to serve as 
the nonpartisan agency under this section, the new 
agency shall terminate upon the enactment into law 
of the redistricting plan for the State. 
(7) PRESERVATION
OF
RECORDS.—The State 
shall ensure that the records of the nonpartisan 
agency are retained in the appropriate State archive 
in such manner as may be necessary to enable the 
State to respond to any civil action brought with re-
spect to congressional redistricting in the State. 
(8) DEADLINE.—The State shall meet the re-
quirements of this subsection not later than each 
October 15 of a year ending in the numeral nine. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF SELECT COMMITTEE ON RE-
DISTRICTING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each State shall appoint a 
Select Committee on Redistricting to approve or dis-
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districting for the State under this subsection shall 
consist of the following members: 
(A) Two members of the State legislature 
appointed by the chair of the political party of 
the State whose candidate received the highest 
percentage of votes in the most recent statewide 
election for Federal office held in the State. 
(B) Two members of the State legislature 
appointed by the chair of the political party 
whose candidate received the second highest 
percentage of votes in the most recent statewide 
election for Federal office held in the State. 
(4) DEADLINE.—The State shall meet the re-
quirements of this subsection not later than each 
January 15 of a year ending in the numeral zero. 
SEC. 315. REPORT ON DIVERSITY OF MEMBERSHIPS OF 
INDEPENDENT 
REDISTRICTING 
COMMIS-
SIONS. 
Not later than May 15 of a year ending in the nu-
meral one, the Comptroller General of the United States 
shall submit to Congress a report on the extent to which 
the memberships of independent redistricting commissions 
for States established under this subtitle with respect to 
the immediately preceding year ending in the numeral zero 
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meet the diversity requirements as provided for in sections 
311(a)(2)(B) and 312(b)(2). 
Subtitle C—Role of Courts in 
Development of Redistricting Plans 
SEC. 321. ENACTMENT OF PLAN DEVELOPED BY 3-JUDGE 
COURT. 
(a) DEVELOPMENT OF PLAN.—If any of the trig-
gering events described in subsection (f) occur with re-
spect to a State— 
(1) not later than December 15 of the year in 
which the triggering event occurs, the United States 
district court for the applicable venue, acting 
through a 3-judge Court convened pursuant to sec-
tion 2284 of title 28, United States Code, shall de-
velop and publish the congressional redistricting 
plan for the State; and 
(2) the final plan developed and published by 
the Court under this section shall be deemed to be 
enacted on the date on which the Court publishes 
the final plan, as described in subsection (d). 
(b) APPLICABLE VENUE DESCRIBED.—For purposes 
of this section, the ‘‘applicable venue’’ with respect to a 
State is the District of Columbia or the judicial district 
in which the capital of the State is located, as selected 
by the first party to file with the court sufficient evidence 
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of the occurrence of a triggering event described in sub-
section (f). 
(c) PROCEDURES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PLAN.— 
(1) CRITERIA.—In developing a redistricting 
plan for a State under this section, the Court shall 
adhere to the same terms and conditions that ap-
plied (or that would have applied, as the case may 
be) to the development of a plan by the independent 
redistricting commission of the State under section 
313(a). 
(2) ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND RECORDS OF 
COMMISSION.—The Court shall have access to any 
information, data, software, or other records and 
material that was used (or that would have been 
used, as the case may be) by the independent redis-
tricting commission of the State in carrying out its 
duties under this Act. 
(3) HEARING; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.—In de-
veloping a redistricting plan for a State, the Court 
shall— 
(A) hold one or more evidentiary hearings 
at which interested members of the public may 
appear and be heard and present testimony, in-
cluding expert testimony, in accordance with 
the rules of the Court; and 
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(B) consider other submissions and com-
ments by the public, including proposals for re-
districting plans to cover the entire State or 
any portion of the State. 
(4) USE OF SPECIAL MASTER.—To assist in the 
development and publication of a redistricting plan 
for a State under this section, the Court may ap-
point a special master to make recommendations to 
the Court on possible plans for the State. 
(d) PUBLICATION OF PLAN.— 
(1) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF INITIAL PLAN.— 
Upon completing the development of one or more 
initial redistricting plans, the Court shall make the 
plans available to the public at no cost, and shall 
also make available the underlying data used by the 
Court to develop the plans and a written evaluation 
of the plans against external metrics (as described in 
section 313(e)). 
(2) PUBLICATION
OF
FINAL
PLAN.—At any 
time after the expiration of the 14-day period which 
begins on the date the Court makes the plans avail-
able to the public under paragraph (1), and taking 
into consideration any submissions and comments by 
the public which are received during such period, the 
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Court shall develop and publish the final redis-
tricting plan for the State. 
(e) USE OF INTERIM PLAN.—In the event that the 
Court is not able to develop and publish a final redis-
tricting plan for the State with sufficient time for an up-
coming election to proceed, the Court may develop and 
publish an interim redistricting plan which shall serve as 
the redistricting plan for the State until the Court devel-
ops and publishes a final plan in accordance with this sec-
tion. Nothing in this subsection may be construed to limit 
or otherwise affect the authority or discretion of the Court 
to develop and publish the final redistricting plan, includ-
ing but not limited to the discretion to make any changes 
the Court deems necessary to an interim redistricting 
plan. 
(f) TRIGGERING EVENTS DESCRIBED.—The ‘‘trig-
gering events’’ described in this subsection are as follows: 
(1) The failure of the State to establish or des-
ignate a nonpartisan agency of the State legislature 
under section 314(a) prior to the expiration of the 
deadline set forth in section 314(a)(5). 
(2) The failure of the State to appoint a Select 
Committee on Redistricting under section 314(b) 
prior to the expiration of the deadline set forth in 
section 314(b)(4). 
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(3) The failure of the Select Committee on Re-
districting to approve any selection pool under sec-
tion 312 prior to the expiration of the deadline set 
forth for the approval of the second replacement se-
lection pool in section 312(d)(2). 
(4) The failure of the independent redistricting 
commission of the State to approve a final redis-
tricting plan for the State prior to the expiration of 
the deadline set forth in section 313(f). 
SEC. 322. SPECIAL RULE FOR REDISTRICTING CONDUCTED 
UNDER ORDER OF FEDERAL COURT. 
If a Federal court requires a State to conduct redis-
tricting subsequent to an apportionment of Representa-
tives in the State in order to comply with the Constitution 
or to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965, section 313 
shall apply with respect to the redistricting, except that 
the court may revise any of the deadlines set forth in such 
section if the court determines that a revision is appro-
priate in order to provide for a timely enactment of a new 
redistricting plan for the State. 
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Subtitle D—Administrative and 
Miscellaneous Provisions 
SEC. 331. PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR CARRYING OUT RE-
DISTRICTING. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF PAYMENTS.—Subject to sub-
sections (c) and (d), not later than 30 days after a State 
receives a State apportionment notice, the Election Assist-
ance Commission shall make a payment to the State in 
an amount equal to the product of— 
(1) the number of Representatives to which the 
State is entitled, as provided under the notice; and 
(2) $150,000. 
(b) USE OF FUNDS.—A State shall use the payment 
made under this section to establish and operate the 
State’s independent redistricting commission, to imple-
ment the State redistricting plan, and to otherwise carry 
out congressional redistricting in the State. 
(c) NO PAYMENT TO STATES ELECTING MEMBERS 
AT LARGE.—The Election Assistance Commission shall 
not make a payment under this section to any State which, 
under the apportionment notice, will elect all of its Rep-
resentatives at large. 
(d) REQUIRING SUBMISSION OF SELECTION POOL AS 
CONDITION OF PAYMENT.— 
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(1) REQUIREMENT.—Except as provided in 
paragraph (2) and paragraph (3), the Election As-
sistance Commission may not make a payment to a 
State under this section until the State certifies to 
the Commission that the nonpartisan agency estab-
lished or designated by a State under section 314(a) 
has, in accordance with section 312(b)(1), submitted 
a selection pool to the Select Committee on Redis-
tricting for the State established under section 
314(b). 
(2) EXCEPTION
FOR
STATES
WITH
EXISTING 
COMMISSIONS.—In the case of a State which, pursu-
ant to section 301(c), is exempt from the require-
ments of section 301(a), the Commission may not 
make a payment to the State under this section until 
the State certifies to the Commission that its redis-
tricting commission meets the requirements of sec-
tion 301(c). 
(3) EXCEPTION FOR STATE OF IOWA.—In the 
case of the State of Iowa, the Commission may not 
make a payment to the State under this section until 
the State certifies to the Commission that it will 
carry out congressional redistricting pursuant to the 
State’s apportionment notice in accordance with a 
plan developed by the Iowa Legislative Services 
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Agency with the assistance of a Temporary Redis-
tricting Advisory Commission, as provided under the 
law described in section 301(d). 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary for payments under this section. 
SEC. 332. CIVIL ENFORCEMENT. 
(a) CIVIL ENFORCEMENT.— 
(1) ACTIONS BY ATTORNEY GENERAL.—The At-
torney General may bring a civil action in an appro-
priate district court for such relief as may be appro-
priate to carry out this Act. 
(2) AVAILABILITY OF PRIVATE RIGHT OF AC-
TION.—Any citizen of a State who is aggrieved by 
the failure of the State to meet the requirements of 
this Act may bring a civil action in the United 
States district court for the applicable venue for 
such relief as may be appropriate to remedy the fail-
ure. For purposes of this section, the ‘‘applicable 
venue’’ is the District of Columbia or the judicial 
district in which the capital of the State is located, 
as selected by the person who brings the civil action. 
(b) EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION.—In any action 
brought forth under this section, the following rules shall 
apply: 
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(1) The action shall be filed in the district court 
of the United States for the District of Columbia or 
for the judicial district in which the capital of the 
State is located, as selected by the person bringing 
the action. 
(2) The action shall be heard by a 3-judge 
court convened pursuant to section 2284 of title 28, 
United States Code. 
(3) The 3-judge court shall consolidate actions 
brought for relief under subsection (b)(1) with re-
spect to the same State redistricting plan. 
(4) A copy of the complaint shall be delivered 
promptly to the Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives and the Secretary of the Senate. 
(5) A final decision in the action shall be re-
viewable only by appeal directly to the Supreme 
Court of the United States. Such appeal shall be 
taken by the filing of a notice of appeal within 10 
days, and the filing of a jurisdictional statement 
within 30 days, of the entry of the final decision. 
(6) It shall be the duty of the district court and 
the Supreme Court of the United States to advance 
on the docket and to expedite to the greatest pos-
sible extent the disposition of the action and appeal. 
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(c) ATTORNEY’S FEES.—In a civil action under this 
section, the court may allow the prevailing party (other 
than the United States) reasonable attorney fees, includ-
ing litigation expenses, and costs. 
(d) RELATION TO OTHER LAWS.— 
(1) RIGHTS
AND
REMEDIES
ADDITIONAL
TO 
OTHER
RIGHTS
AND
REMEDIES.—The rights and 
remedies established by this section are in addition 
to all other rights and remedies provided by law, and 
neither the rights and remedies established by this 
section nor any other provision of this Act shall su-
persede, restrict, or limit the application of the Vot-
ing Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 10301 et seq.). 
(2) VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965.—Nothing in 
this Act authorizes or requires conduct that is pro-
hibited by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 
10301 et seq.). 
SEC. 333. STATE APPORTIONMENT NOTICE DEFINED. 
In this title, the ‘‘State apportionment notice’’ means, 
with respect to a State, the notice sent to the State from 
the Clerk of the House of Representatives under section 
22(b) of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the fif-
teenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide 
for an apportionment of Representatives in Congress’’, ap-
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proved June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a(b)), of the number 
of Representatives to which the State is entitled. 
TITLE IV—GENERAL 
PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. NO EFFECT ON ELECTIONS FOR STATE AND 
LOCAL OFFICE. 
Nothing in this Act or in any amendment made by 
this Act may be construed to affect the manner in which 
a State carries out elections for State or local office, in-
cluding the process by which a State establishes the dis-
tricts used in such elections. 
SEC. 402. SEVERABILITY. 
If any provision of this Act or any amendment made 
by this Act, or the application of a provision of this Act 
or an amendment made by this Act to any person or cir-
cumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder 
of this Act, and the application of the provisions to any 
person or circumstance, shall not be affected by the hold-
ing. 
SEC. 403. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
(a) REDISTRICTING.—Title III and the amendments 
made by such title shall apply with respect to redistricting 
carried out pursuant to the decennial census conducted 
during 2020 or any succeeding decennial census. 
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(b) RANKED CHOICE VOTING; USE OF MULTI-MEM-
BER DISTRICTS.—Titles I and II and the amendments 
made by such titles shall apply with respect to elections 
for Federal office held in 2022 and each succeeding year. 
Æ 
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