Title: FAIR Map Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Fair And Inclusive Redistricting Map Act or the FAIR Map Act
This bill directs the Department of Justice to enter into an agreement with the National Academies under which it shall conduct a study to (1) develop guidelines, best practices, and examples to aid states in drawing congressional district maps; and (2) define metrics related to factors such as maintaining geographic contiguity and compactness, respecting communities of interest, and maintaining partisan fairness.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2057 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2057

  To direct the Attorney General to enter into an agreement with the 
   National Academies to conduct a study to develop guidelines, best 
        practices, and examples for congressional redistricting.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 3, 2019

 Mr. McNerney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Attorney General to enter into an agreement with the 
   National Academies to conduct a study to develop guidelines, best 
        practices, and examples for congressional redistricting.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fair And Inclusive Redistricting Map 
Act'' or the ``FAIR Map Act''.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT MAP STUDY.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall enter into an 
agreement with the National Academies under which the National 
Academies shall conduct a study to--
            (1) develop guidelines, best practices, and examples 
        consistent with the criteria in subsection (b) to aid States in 
        drawing congressional district maps; and
            (2) define metrics, limitations to such metrics, and other 
        factors for the criteria in subsection (b).
    (b) Map Criteria.--
            (1) Requirements.--The guidelines, best practices, and 
        examples developed under subsection (a) shall--
                    (A) comply with the Constitution of the United 
                States, including the requirement of equal population; 
                and
                    (B) comply with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 
                U.S.C. 10301 et seq.).
            (2) Considerations.--The guidelines, best practices, and 
        examples developed under subsection (a) shall consider factors 
        related to--
                    (A) maintaining geographic contiguity and 
                compactness;
                    (B) respecting natural and existing political 
                boundaries;
                    (C) respecting communities of interest; and
                    (D) maintaining partisan fairness.
    (c) Completion of Study.--The Study required under subsection (a) 
shall be completed at the later of--
            (1) January 1, 2021; or
            (2) the date that is 1 year after the date of the agreement 
        in subsection (a).
    (d) Report.--After the completion of the study, the Attorney 
General shall submit to Congress and make publicly available the 
results of the study described in subsection (a).

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this Act.
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