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FL S1608

Bill

Status

Failed

3/9/2012

Primary Sponsor

Don Gaetz

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Origin

Senate

2012 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Updates Florida's congressional redistricting to use the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census instead of the 2000 census.

  • Divides Florida into 27 consecutively numbered, single-member congressional districts of contiguous territory.

  • Revises definitions of census geographic units to reference counties, voting tabulation districts, tracts, and blocks used in the 2010 census.

  • Establishes that the new congressional districts apply to primary and general elections held in 2012 and thereafter.

  • Takes effect upon expiration of terms of current U.S. House representatives serving at the time the act becomes law.

Legislative Description

Establishing the Congressional Districts of the State

Last Action

Died in Reapportionment, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 1174 (Ch.

3/9/2012

Committee Referrals

Reapportionment1/17/2012

Full Bill Text

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