Reference is to Printer's Date 5/3/18--H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by adding an appropriately numbered SECTION to read:
/ SECTION __. Article 1, Chapter 1, Title 6 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 6-1-180.
(A) Beginning with the adoption of the
2020 official United States decennial census, each political
subdivision of the State that is not otherwise required by law
to undergo periodic reapportionment and whose governing board,
commission, or council is popularly elected from single-member
election districts, residency requirements, or a combination of
at-large and single-member districts, must be reapportioned to a
population variance of less than ten percent within three years
of the date on which the latest federal decennial census is
adopted by the General Assembly.
(B) A popularly elected
board, commission, or council member who is serving in a
district that has been reapportioned must be allowed to continue
to serve the balance of his unexpired term representing the
people in the new reapportioned district if he is an elector in
the reapportioned district.
(C) In the event that
two or more popularly elected members of a political
subdivision's governing board, commission, or council, elected
by single-member districts or residency requirements, because of
reapportionment, become electors in the same district:
(1)
if there are two or more years remaining on two or more of
the affected members' terms after the reapportionment becomes
effective, their terms expire by the next general election and
an election must be held to fill the remaining term for the seat
with two or more members and for the seat for the district with
the vacancy, if applicable; or
(2)
if there are two or more years remaining on only one
affected member's term, that member may continue to serve the
balance of his unexpired term representing the people in the
newly reapportioned district.
(D) If a seat becomes
vacant after election districts have been reapportioned, but
prior to the expiration of the incumbent's term of office due to
death, resignation, removal, or another cause, the resulting
vacancy must be filled under the new reapportionment plan in the
manner provided by law for the district that has the same
district number as the district from which the council member
whose office is vacant was elected.
(E) Each political
subdivision of the State described in subsection (A) shall
furnish the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office a copy of the
adopted version of the applicable reapportionment ordinance and
its accompanying map and statistics." /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.