11-304.   Data used for legislative redistricting;adjustment.(a) The secretary of state shall obtain decennial censusinformation obtained by the United States bureau of the census for eachcounty, city, precinct and part of a precinct that is given an identifyingcode.The secretary of state shalladjust each piece of such information,and adjust each and all of the same in an organized manner to carry outthe provisions of K.S.A. 11-301, and amendments thereto. Whensuch information is so organized, the secretary of stateshall present the adjusted federal census information to the legislature,but not later than July 31 in the year following each federal decennial census.

      (b)   The census information obtained by the secretary of state for thepurposes of subsection (a) shall be identical to the data from the actualenumeration conducted by the United States bureau of the census and used forthe apportionment of representatives of the United States house ofrepresentatives. The secretary of state shall not use bureau of the censuscounts derived by any other means, including the use of statistical sampling,to add or subtract population by inference.

      History:   L. 1989, ch. 257, § 4;L. 1999, ch. 148, § 1; July 1.