CS for SJR 2-C - Senate Apportionment Summary

• Apportions Florida into 40 single-member senatorial districts based on the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census, with detailed boundary descriptions using county, voting tabulation district, tract, and block designations.

• Establishes procedures for handling omitted or noncontiguous territory: areas entirely surrounded by a district are included in that district, while other omitted areas go to the contiguous district with the lowest population per legislator.

• Noncontiguous portions of districts with the least population are transferred to the adjacent district with the lowest population to promote district contiguity.

• Provides that the apportioned districts constitute Florida's official senatorial districts for legislative elections, with severability protection if any provision or district is found invalid.

• Applies to the qualification, nomination, and election of Florida Senate members in the 2016 primary and general elections and all subsequent elections.