FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 193

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DIEHL (Sponsor), COX, RICHARDSON, LOEHNER, FLANIGAN, TILLEY, ALLEN, NASHEED, HUBBARD, KLIPPENSTEIN, BROWN (50) AND CASEY (Co-sponsors).

0609L.02I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To repeal sections 128.345 and 128.346, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof ten new sections relating to the composition of congressional districts.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Sections 128.345 and 128.346, RSMo, are repealed and ten new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 128.345, 128.346, 128.451, 128.452, 128.453, 128.454, 128.455, 128.456, 128.457, and 128.458, to read as follows:

            128.345. All references in sections [128.400 to 128.440] 128.451 to 128.458 to counties, voting districts (VTD), and tract-blocks (BLK) mean those counties, voting districts (VTD), and tract-blocks (BLK) as reported to the state by the United States Bureau of the Census for the [2000] 2010 census.

            128.346. The districts established by the provisions of sections [128.400 to 128.440] 128.451 to 128.458 for the election of representatives to the Congress of the United States shall be effective beginning with election to the [108th] 113th Congress.

            128.451. The first congressional district shall be composed of the following:

            (1) County;

            (2) VTD; and

            (3) BLK.

            128.452. The second congressional district shall be composed of the following:

            (1) County;

            (2) VTD; and

            (3) BLK.

            128.453. The third congressional district shall be composed on the following:

            (1) County;

            (2) VTD; and

            (3) BLK.

            128.454. The fourth congressional district shall be composed on the following:

            (1) County;

            (2) VTD; and

            (3) BLK.

            128.455. The fifth congressional district shall be composed on the following:

            (1) County;

            (2) VTD; and

            (3) BLK.

            128.456. The sixth congressional district shall be composed on the following:

            (1) County;

            (2) VTD; and

            (3) BLK.

            128.457. The seventh congressional district shall be composed on the following:

            (1) County;

            (2) VTD; and

            (3) BLK.

            128.458. The eighth congressional district shall be composed on the following:

            (1) County;

            (2) VTD; and

            (3) BLK.

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