HF 515

1st Engrossment - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to the legislature; specifying the size of
the legislature; coordinating legislative districts
and congressional districts; amending Minnesota
Statutes 2004, sections 2.021; 2.031, subdivision 1.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 2.021, is
amended to read:

2.021 NUMBER OF MEMBERS.

For each legislature, until a new apportionment shall have
been made, the senate is composed of deleted text begin 67 deleted text end new text begin no fewer than 60 and no
more than 64 new text end members and the house of representatives is
composed of deleted text begin 134 deleted text end new text begin no fewer than 120 and no more than 128 new text end members.

new text begin In 2013 and thereafter, each senate must be composed of a
number of senators evenly divisible by the number of
representatives in Congress apportioned to the state.
new text end

Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 2.031,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Legislative districts.

The
representatives in the senate and house of representatives are
apportioned throughout the state in deleted text begin 67 senate districts and 134
house districts deleted text end new text begin the number of senate and house districts
provided by law. No congressional district boundary may be
crossed in forming a senate district new text end . Each senate district is
entitled to elect one senator and each house district is
entitled to elect one representative.

Sec. 3. new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE.
new text end

new text begin This act is effective for any apportionment to be effective
in 2013 or thereafter.
new text end