PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 412
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
444
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY GAYDOS, FLICK, HAMM, R. MACKENZIE, ROAE, KAUFFMAN,
MENTZER, GLEIM AND SCIALABBA, MARCH 16, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 16, 2023
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, further providing for legislative districts.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby resolves as follows:
Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
That section 16 of Article II be amended to read:
ยง 16. Legislative districts.
The Commonwealth shall be divided into 50 senatorial and
[203] 151 representative districts, which shall be composed of
compact and contiguous territory as nearly equal in population
as practicable. Each senatorial district shall elect one
Senator, and each representative district one Representative.
Unless absolutely necessary no county, city, incorporated town,
borough, township or ward shall be divided in forming either a
senatorial or representative district.
Section 2. The following procedure applies to the proposed
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constitutional amendment in this joint resolution:
(1) Upon the first passage by the General Assembly of
the amendment, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
proceed immediately to comply with the advertising
requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania.
(2) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of
the amendment, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
proceed immediately to comply with the advertising
requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
submit the amendment to the qualified electors of this
Commonwealth at the first primary, general or municipal
election which meets the requirements of section 1 of Article
XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.
Section 3. Upon ratification by the electors, the General
Assembly shall enact legislation to implement this
constitutional amendment so that it applies for the first time
to the first session of the General Assembly which begins after
the 2030 reapportionment.
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