I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7095 
To require States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with 
a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting 
proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development 
of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 25, 2024 
Ms. ROSS (for herself, Mr. NICKEL, Ms. MANNING, Mr. JACKSON of North 
Carolina, Mrs. FOUSHEE, Ms. ADAMS, and Mr. DAVIS of North Carolina) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
Judiciary 
A BILL 
To require States to carry out congressional redistricting 
in accordance with a process under which members of 
the public are informed of redistricting proposals and 
have the opportunity to participate in the development 
of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDING OF CONSTITUTIONAL 
AUTHORITY. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Redistricting Transparency and Accountability Act of 
2024’’. 
(b) FINDING.—Congress finds that it has the author-
ity to require States to follow certain procedures in car-
rying out congressional redistricting after an apportion-
ment of Members of the House of Representatives be-
cause— 
(1) the authority granted to Congress under ar-
ticle I, section 4 of the Constitution of the United 
States gives Congress the power to enact laws gov-
erning the time, place, and manner of elections for 
Members of the House of Representatives; and 
(2) the authority granted to Congress under 
section 5 of the fourteenth amendment to the Con-
stitution gives Congress the power to enact laws to 
enforce section 2 of such amendment, which requires 
Representatives to be apportioned among the several 
States according to the number of whole persons in 
each State. 
SEC. 2. REQUIRING REDISTRICTING TO BE CONDUCTED 
UNDER PROCEDURES PROVIDING OPPOR-
TUNITY FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, any congressional redistricting con-
ducted by a State shall be conducted in accordance 
with a process under which the entity responsible for 
developing congressional redistricting plans in the 
State (hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘State 
redistricting entity’’)— 
(A) in accordance with section 3, estab-
lishes and operates an internet site; 
(B) in accordance with section 4, provides 
opportunities for participation by members of 
the public in the initial development of such 
plans; and 
(C) in accordance with section 5, notifies 
members of the public regarding the proposed 
final congressional redistricting plan and pro-
vides opportunities for members of the public to 
respond to the plan. 
(2) TREATMENT OF SUBORDINATE ENTITIES.— 
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the re-
quirements of this Act shall apply with respect to 
any entity which is subordinate to the entity respon-
sible for the final adoption of a congressional redis-
tricting plan under State law, including any commis-
sion, board, committee, or subcommittee responsible 
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under State law for performing certain functions on 
behalf of such entity in conjunction with the develop-
ment and adoption of the plan for the State, in the 
same manner as such requirements apply with re-
spect to the State redistricting entity. 
(3) OTHER
PROCEDURES
PERMITTED.—Noth-
ing in this Act or the amendments made by this Act 
may be construed to prohibit a State from con-
ducting congressional redistricting in accordance 
with such procedures as the State considers appro-
priate, to the extent that such procedures are con-
sistent with the applicable requirements of this Act 
and the amendments made by this Act. 
(4) NO EFFECT ON REDISTRICTING FOR STATE 
OR LOCAL ELECTIONS.—Nothing in this Act or the 
amendments made by this Act may be construed to 
affect any procedures a State or a unit of local gov-
ernment in a State may use to conduct redistricting 
with respect to elections for State or local offices. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 22(c) 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(c)), is amended by striking 
‘‘in the manner provided by the law thereof’’ and insert-
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ing: ‘‘in a manner consistent with the requirements of the 
Redistricting Transparency and Accountability Act of 
2024’’. 
SEC. 3. PUBLIC INTERNET SITE FOR STATE REDISTRICTING 
ENTITY. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF SITE.— 
Each State redistricting entity shall establish and main-
tain a public internet site which meets the following min-
imum requirements: 
(1) The site provides general information about 
the congressional redistricting process, including in-
formation on— 
(A) applicable legal requirements; and 
(B) any redistricting principles or policies 
that the State redistricting entity will use in 
creating or evaluating congressional redis-
tricting plans. 
(2) The site is updated continuously to provide 
timely advance notice of meetings held by the entity 
and to otherwise provide information on the activi-
ties of the entity and any subordinate entity de-
scribed in section 2(a)(2). 
(3) The site provides access to all congressional 
redistricting plans or district maps submitted by any 
person or entity as part of the redistricting process. 
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(4) The site provides members of the public 
with no-cost access to easily assessable digital files 
containing the block equivalency, shapefiles, and de-
mographic and election data needed for analysis, 
evaluation, or creation of proposed redistricting 
plans, including assessment of a plan’s partisan per-
formance and compliance with the Voting Rights Act 
of 1965 and other applicable legal requirements. 
(5) The site permits any individual to submit, 
view, and search comments on proposed redistricting 
plans, and to submit questions, comments, and other 
information with respect to the entity’s activities. 
(6) The site permits members of the public to 
watch, in both live and archival formats, and review 
transcripts of, any public hearings or meetings of 
the State redistricting entity. 
(7) The site includes any other information the 
entity is required to make public under this Act or 
other applicable law. 
(b) DEADLINE FOR POSTING OF COMMENTS SUB-
MITTED BY PUBLIC.—The State redistricting entity shall 
ensure that any oral or written comment relating to Con-
gressional redistricting in the State which is submitted by 
a member of the public to the State redistricting agency, 
including a comment on any plan proposed by the entity 
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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) this section shall be posted and 
published in any language in which the State (or any juris-
diction in the State) is required to provide election mate-
rials 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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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 ; and 
(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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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 
described 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. 
Æ 
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