Senate Bill 302 Summary

• Establishes a nine-member redistricting commission to create and recommend plans for redrawing general assembly and congressional districts, with members appointed by legislative leaders by January 15 of a redistricting year.

• Requires the commission to hold at least three public hearings (one each in Northern, Central, and Southern Indiana) by July 31 of a redistricting year and submit recommendations to the general assembly by September 1.

• Mandates the general assembly enact bills establishing house and senate districts before October 1 of a redistricting year; allows the general assembly to convene special sessions for redistricting legislation outside normal session times.

• Provides that the commission's adopted congressional district plan becomes law automatically unless the general assembly enacts a different plan by law.

• Sets redistricting standards including 100 house districts, 50 senate districts, population-based boundaries with no more than 1% deviation from ideal population, contiguity, compactness, and minimization of county and city divisions.