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42.2 PREPARATIONS FOR REDISTRICTING.
1. The legislative services agency shall acquire appropriate
information, review and evaluate available facilities, and develop
programs and procedures in preparation for drawing congressional and
legislative redistricting plans on the basis of each federal census.
Funds shall be expended for the purchase or lease of equipment and
materials only with prior approval of the legislative council.
2. By December 31 of each year ending in zero, the legislative
services agency shall obtain from the United States bureau of the
census information regarding geographic and political units in this
state for which federal census population data has been gathered and
will be tabulated. The legislative services agency shall use the
data so obtained to:
a. Prepare necessary descriptions of geographic and political
units for which census data will be reported, and which are suitable
for use as components of legislative districts.
b. Prepare maps of counties, cities and other geographic
units within the state, which may be used to illustrate the locations
of legislative district boundaries proposed in plans drawn in
accordance with section 42.4.
3. As soon as possible after January 1 of each year ending in
one, the legislative services agency shall obtain from the United
States bureau of the census the population data needed for
legislative districting which the census bureau is required to
provide this state under United States Pub. L. No. 94-171, and shall
use that data to assign a population figure based upon certified
federal census data to each geographic or political unit described
pursuant to subsection 2, paragraph "a". Upon completing that
task, the legislative services agency shall begin the preparation of
congressional and legislative districting plans as required by
section 42.3.
4. Upon each delivery by the legislative services agency to the
general assembly of a bill embodying a plan, pursuant to section
42.3, the legislative services agency shall at the earliest feasible
time make available to the public the following information:
a. Copies of the bill delivered by the legislative services
agency to the general assembly.
b. Maps illustrating the plan.
c. A summary of the standards prescribed by section 42.4 for
development of the plan.
d. A statement of the population of each district included in
the plan, and the relative deviation of each district population from
the ideal district population. Section History: Early Form
[C81, § 42.2] Section History: Recent Form
2003 Acts, ch 35, §44, 49; 2006 Acts, ch 1010, §33; 2007 Acts, ch
78, §1
