(c) No later than 90 days after either the commission has
been duly certified or the population data for the Commonwealth
as determined by the Federal decennial census are available,
whichever is later in time, the commission shall file a
preliminary reapportionment plan for the Pennsylvania districts
in the United States House of Representatives and for the
districts in each chamber of the General Assembly with such
elections officer.
[The commission shall have 30 days after filing the
preliminary plan to make corrections in the plan.] A public
comment period of 30 days shall commence with the filing of the
preliminary plan. During the comment period, the commission
shall conduct public hearings in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and
Harrisburg. The commission shall have 30 days after the date of
the expiration of the public comment period to prepare and adopt
a revised reapportionment plan.
Any person aggrieved by the preliminary plan shall have the
same 30-day period to file exceptions with the commission in
which case the commission shall have 30 days after the date the
exceptions were filed to prepare and file with such elections
officer a revised reapportionment plan. If no exceptions are
filed within 30 days, or if filed and acted upon, the
[commissions's] commission's plan shall be final and have the
force of law.
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(e) When the Supreme Court has finally decided an appeal or
when the last day for filing an appeal has passed with no appeal
taken, the reapportionment plan shall have the force of law and
the districts therein provided shall be used thereafter in
elections to the United States House of Representatives and to
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