42.3 - TIMETABLE FOR PREPARATION OF PLAN.
42.3 TIMETABLE FOR PREPARATION OF PLAN.
1. a. Not later than April 1 of each year ending in one, the
legislative services agency shall deliver to the secretary of the
senate and the chief clerk of the house of representatives identical
bills embodying a plan of legislative and congressional districting
prepared in accordance with section 42.4. It is the intent of this
chapter that the general assembly shall bring the bill to a vote in
either the senate or the house of representatives expeditiously, but
not less than three days after the report of the commission required
by section 42.6 is received and made available to the members of the
general assembly, under a procedure or rule permitting no amendments
except those of a purely corrective nature. It is further the intent
of this chapter that if the bill is approved by the first house in
which it is considered, it shall expeditiously be brought to a vote
in the second house under a similar procedure or rule. If the bill
embodying the plan submitted by the legislative services agency under
this subsection fails to be approved by a constitutional majority in
either the senate or the house of representatives, the secretary of
the senate or the chief clerk of the house, as the case may be, shall
at once, but in no event later than seven days after the date the
bill failed to be approved, transmit to the legislative services
agency information which the senate or house may direct by resolution
regarding reasons why the plan was not approved.
b. However, if the population data for legislative
districting which the United States census bureau is required to
provide this state under Pub. L. No. 94-171 and, if used by the
legislative services agency, the corresponding topologically
integrated geographic encoding and referencing data file for that
population data are not available to the legislative services agency
on or before February 15 of the year ending in one, the dates set
forth in paragraph "a" shall be extended by a number of days
equal to the number of days after February 15 of the year ending in
one that the federal census population data and the topologically
integrated geographic encoding and referencing data file for
legislative districting become available.
2. If the bill embodying the plan submitted by the legislative
services agency under subsection 1 fails to be enacted, the
legislative services agency shall prepare a bill embodying a second
plan of legislative and congressional districting. The bill shall be
prepared in accordance with section 42.4, and, insofar as it is
possible to do so within the requirements of section 42.4, with the
reasons cited by the senate or house of representatives by
resolution, or the governor by veto message, for the failure to
approve the plan. If a second plan is required under this
subsection, the bill embodying it shall be delivered to the secretary
of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of representatives not
later than thirty-five days after the date of the vote by which the
senate or the house of representatives fails to approve the bill
submitted under subsection 1, or the date the governor vetoes or
fails to approve the bill. If it is necessary to submit a bill under
this subsection, the bill shall be brought to a vote not less than
seven days after the bill is submitted and made available to the
members of the general assembly, under a procedure or rule permitting
no amendments except those of a purely corrective nature. It is
further the intent of this chapter that if the bill is approved by
the first house in which it is considered, it shall expeditiously be
brought to a vote in the second house under a similar procedure or
rule. If the bill embodying the plan submitted by the legislative
services agency under this subsection fails to be approved by a
constitutional majority in either the senate or the house of
representatives, the secretary of the senate or the chief clerk of
the house, as the case may be, shall transmit to the legislative
services agency in the same manner as described in subsection 1,
information which the senate or house may direct by resolution
regarding reasons why the plan was not approved.
3. If the bill embodying the plan submitted by the legislative
services agency under subsection 2 fails to be enacted, the same
procedure as prescribed by subsection 2 shall be followed. If a
third plan is required under this subsection, the bill embodying it
shall be delivered to the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk
of the house of representatives not later than thirty-five days after
the date of the vote by which the senate or the house of
representatives fails to approve the bill submitted under subsection
2, or the date the governor vetoes or fails to approve the bill. The
legislative services agency shall submit a bill under this subsection
sufficiently in advance of September 1 of the year ending in one to
permit the general assembly to consider the plan prior to that date.
If it is necessary to submit a bill under this subsection, the bill
shall be brought to a vote within the same time period after its
delivery to the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the
house of representatives as is prescribed for the bill submitted
under subsection 2, but shall be subject to amendment in the same
manner as other bills. Section History: Early Form
[C81, § 42.3] Section History: Recent Form
94 Acts, ch 1179, §1, 2; 2003 Acts, ch 35, §44, 49; 2006 Acts, ch
1010, §34; 2007 Acts, ch 78, §2--5; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §11, 12
Referred to in § 42.2, 42.6