PRINTER'S NO. 1962
No. 1599 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY TADDONIO, ZORD, KNEPPER, TRELLO AND ABRAHAM,
JULY 9, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JULY 14, 1975
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
2 of Pennsylvania, reducing the number of senatorial and
3 representative districts.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby resolves as follows:
6 Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
7 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with
8 the provisions of the eleventh article thereof:
9 That section sixteen, article two of the Constitution of the
10 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be amended to read:
11 Section 16. Legislative Districts.--The Commonwealth shall
12 be divided into [fifty] forty-one senatorial and [two hundred
13 three] one hundred twenty-three representative districts, which
14 shall be composed of compact and contiguous territory as nearly
15 equal in population as practicable and each senatorial district
16 shall be coterminous with three representative districts. Each
17 senatorial district shall elect one Senator, and each
18 representative district one Representative. Unless absolutely
1 necessary no county, city, incorporated town, borough, township
2 or ward shall be divided in forming either a senatorial or
3 representative district.
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