MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2004 Regular Session
To: Apportionment and Elections
By: Representative Reynolds
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 5-3-123, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT A PLAN TO REDISTRICT THE UNITED STATES CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS FOR THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI BY THE JOINT CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE SHALL BE DRAWN NOT MORE OFTEN THAN ONCE EVERY TEN YEARS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 5-3-123, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
5-3-123. The members of the committee shall draw a plan to redistrict, according to constitutional standards, the United States congressional districts for the State of Mississippi no later than thirty (30) days preceding the convening of the next regular session of the Legislature after the results of the 1980 decennial census are published and not more often than once every ten (10) years thereafter.
Provided, however, the committee shall not be required to present a plan to the Governor and to the Legislature prior to four (4) months after the publication of census data.
SECTION 2. The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi shall submit this act, immediately upon approval by the Governor, or upon approval by the Legislature subsequent to a veto, to the Attorney General of the United States or to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in accordance with the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date it is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.