11-304. Data used for legislative redistricting; adjustment.
11-304
11-304. Data used for legislative redistricting;
adjustment.
(a) The secretary of state shall obtain decennial census
information obtained by the United States bureau of the census for each
county, city, precinct and part of a precinct that is given an identifying
code.
The secretary of state shall
adjust each piece of such information,
and adjust each and all of the same in an organized manner to carry out
the provisions of K.S.A. 11-301, and amendments thereto. When
such information is so organized, the secretary of state
shall 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 the
purposes of subsection (a) shall be identical to the data from the actual
enumeration conducted by the United States bureau of the census and used for
the apportionment of representatives of the United States house of
representatives. The secretary of state shall not use bureau of the census
counts 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.