Virginia SB 1087: House of Delegates & Senate districts; technical adjustments subsequent to decennial redistricting.

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19107790D 

SENATE BILL NO. 1087 

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE 

(Proposed by the Governor 

on March 26, 2019) 

(Patrons Prior to Substitute--Senators Obenshain, Peake [SB 
1051], and Barker [SB 1284]) 

A BILL to amend and reenact �� 24.2-304.1, 24.2-307, and 
24.2-308 of the Code of Virginia, relating to election districts; requirements 
for precincts; remedying split precincts. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That �� 24.2-304.1, 24.2-307, and 24.2-308 of the Code of 
Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:

� 24.2-304.1. At-large and district elections; reapportionment 
and redistricting of districts or wards; limits.

A. Except as otherwise specifically limited by general law or 
special act, the governing body of each county, city, or town may provide by 
ordinance for the election of its members on any of the following bases: (i) at 
large from the county, city, or town; (ii) from single-member or multi-member 
districts or wards, or any combination thereof; or (iii) from any combination 
of at-large, single-member, and multi-member districts or wards. A change in 
the basis for electing the members of the governing body shall not constitute a 
change in the form of county government.

B. If the members are elected from districts or wards and 
other than entirely at large from the locality, the districts or wards shall be 
composed of contiguous and compact territory and shall be so constituted as to 
give, as nearly as is practicable, representation in proportion to the 
population of the district or ward. In 1971 and every 10 years thereafter, the 
governing body of each such locality shall reapportion the representation among 
the districts or wards, including, if the governing body deems it appropriate, 
increasing or diminishing the number of such districts or wards, in order to 
give, as nearly as is practicable, representation on the basis of population.

C. For the purposes of redistricting and reapportioning 
representation in 2001 and every 10 years thereafter, the governing body of a 
county, city, or town shall use the most recent decennial population figures 
for such county, city, or town from the United States Bureau of the Census, 
which figures are identical to those from the actual enumeration conducted by 
the United States Bureau of the Census for the apportionment of representatives 
in the United States House of Representatives, except that the census data for 
these redistricting and apportionment purposes will not include any population 
figure that is not allocated to specific census blocks within the Commonwealth, 
even though that population may have been included in the apportionment 
population figures of the Commo