South Dakota Bipartisan Redistricting Commission Amendment (2016)

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Bipartisan Redistricting Commission Amendment
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TypeLegislatively referred constitutional amendment
TopicRedistricting measures on the ballot
StatusNot on the ballot


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The South Dakota Bipartisan Redistricting Commission Amendment did not make the November 8, 2016 ballot in South Dakota as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure, upon voter approval, would have established a bipartisan commission composed of seven state citizens to redistrict state legislative districts starting in 2021.[1]

The proposed amendment would have required counties and cities to be made whole within a district whenever possible.

Text of measure

Constitutional changes

See also: Article III, South Dakota Constitution

The proposed amendment would have amended Section 5 of Article III of the South Dakota Constitution. The following struck-through text would have been deleted and the underlined text would have been added by the proposed measure's approval:[1]

§ 5. The Legislature shall apportion its membership provide for its redistricting by establishing, at appropriate times, a bipartisan redistricting commission composed of seven state citizens, one appointed by the house majority leader, one appointed by the house minority leader, one appointed by the senate majority leader, and one appointed by the senate minority leader. The first four appointees shall jointly select three other state citizens. No member of this commission may be a current state legislator. This commission shall apportion the legislative body by dividing the state into as many single-member, legislative districts as there are to be state senators. House districts shall be established wholly within senatorial districts and shall be either single-member or dual-member districts as the Legislature shall determine. Legislative districts shall consist of compact, contiguous territory and shall have population as nearly equal as is practicable, based on the last preceding federal census. An apportionment Counties and cities shall be made whole in a district whenever possible. A redistricting shall be made by the Legislature in 1983 and in 1991 this commission in 2021, and every ten years after 1991 2021. Such apportionment redistricting shall be accomplished by December first of the year in which the apportionment redistricting is required. If any Legislature commission whose duty it is to make an apportionment shall fail to make the same a redistricting fails to do so as herein provided, it shall be the duty of the Supreme Court, within ninety days to, shall make such apportionment the redistricting.

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Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the South Dakota Constitution

According to the South Dakota Constitution, the state legislature can refer a proposed amendment to the state's voters through a simple majority vote.

The 2015 legislative session ended on March 30, 2015, without the amendment coming up for a vote.[3] The amendment was not reintroduced during the 2016 session.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 South Dakota Legislature, "House Joint Resolution 1004," accessed March 23, 2015
  2. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source.
  3. ↑ Rapid City Journal, "South Dakota's 2015 legislative session comes to an end," March 30, 2015
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