FL H6001

Establishes the apportionment of the Florida Legislature under Section 8(a), Article X of the Florida State Constitution, creating 120 single-member House districts and 40 single-member Senate districts of contiguous territory, using the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census (Pub. L. No. 94-171) as the basis for population data

Defines all district boundaries with precision down to the census block level, using a hierarchical geographic framework of counties, voting tabulation districts (VTDs), census tracts, and individual census blocks to delineate exact boundaries

Senate Districts 1–12 cover northern and central Florida, with some districts encompassing entire rural counties (e.g., District 5 includes all of 11 counties in the Big Bend region) while urban counties like Duval, Orange, and Volusia are split across multiple districts

Senate Districts 12–26 cover central Florida, with heavily populated counties such as Orange, Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Seminole split among several districts; some districts span multiple counties (e.g., District 26 includes all of DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Highlands, and Okeechobee counties)

Senate Districts 27–40 cover South Florida, where Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties are each divided among numerous districts; District 40 is the most geographically expansive, encompassing all of Hendry and Monroe counties plus portions of Collier and Miami-Dade counties

Any state territory not explicitly assigned to a district but entirely surrounded by one is automatically included in that district; unassigned territory not surrounded by a single district is assigned to the contiguous district with the least population per legislator, with ties broken by lowest district number

Noncontiguous territory within a district is corrected by reassigning the noncontiguous portion with the least population to the contiguous district with the lowest population, with ties again broken by lowest district number

Includes a severability clause ensuring that if any provision or individual district is held invalid, the remainder of the resolution continues in effect independently

Applies to the qualification, nomination, and election of members of the Florida Legislature beginning with the 2012 primary and general elections and all subsequent elections thereafter