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AMENDMENT No. 1 PROPOSED TO

                             House Bill NO. 1

                             By Representative(s) Formby

     AMEND by striking Section 1 in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

     SECTION 1.  Section 23-15-1037, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     23-15-1037.  (1)  The State of Mississippi is hereby divided into four (4) congressional districts as follows:

     FIRST DISTRICT.  The First Congressional District shall be composed of the following counties and portions of counties:  Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Clay, DeSoto, Grenada, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Panola, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Webster, Yalobusha; and in Lowndes County the precincts of Air Base A, Air Base B, Air Base C, Air Base D, Artesia, Brandon A, Brandon B, Caldwell, Caledonia, Coleman, Co-op A, Co-op B, Fairgrounds A, Fairgrounds C, Fairview, Franklin A, Franklin B, Hunt A, Hunt B, Hunt C, Lee High, Mayhew, Mitchell, Plum Grove C, Rural Hill B, Sale, Steens A, Steens B, Steens C, Stokes Beard, Trinity, Union Academy A, Union Academy B, University A, University B and West Lowndes.

     SECOND DISTRICT.  The Second Congressional District shall be composed of the following counties * * *:  Adams, Bolivar, Claiborne, Coahoma, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jefferson, Leflore, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tunica, Warren, Washington, Wilkinson and Yazoo.  THIRD DISTRICT.  The Third Congressional District shall be composed of the following counties and portions of counties:  Attala, Choctaw, Clarke, Covington, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Kemper, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Smith, Wayne and Winston; and that portion of Lowndes County not included in the First Congressional District.

     FOURTH DISTRICT.  The Fourth Congressional District shall be composed of the following counties * * *:  Amite, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Lamar, Lincoln, Marion, Pearl River, Perry, Pike, Stone and Walthall.

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     (2)  The boundaries of the congressional districts described in subsection (1) of this section shall be the boundaries of the counties along such congressional district boundaries as the boundaries of such counties existed on October 1, 2001, and the precinct boundaries along such congressional district boundaries as such precinct boundaries are contained in Census 2000 redistricting maps (Public Law 94-171) TIGER line file.