Assembly Amendment to Assembly Bill No. 465 (BDR 20-1431)
Proposed by: Committee on Government Affairs
Amendment Box:
Amends: Summary: Title: Preamble: Joint Sponsorship:
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Amend the bill as a whole by deleting section 1 and renumbering sec. 2 as section 1.
Amend sec. 2, page 2, by deleting lines 16 and 17 and inserting:
"Census of the United States Department of Commerce, because of changes in applicable law [,] or because the board of county commissioners decided to revise those districts pursuant to subsection 4, the".
Amend sec. 2, page 2, after line 30, by inserting:
"3. As soon as possible after the data from each decennial census taken by the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce is made available to the county, the board of county commissioners shall revise the county commissioner election districts by establishing new county commissioner election districts or adjusting the boundaries of the existing county commissioner election districts to the extent necessary to ensure the county commissioner election districts are as nearly equal in population as practicable.
4. During the fourth calendar year after the year in which the data from the decennial census is made available to the county, the board of county commissioners may revise the county commissioner election districts by establishing new county commissioner election districts or by adjusting the boundaries of the existing county commissioner election districts to the extent necessary to ensure the county commissioner election districts are as nearly equal in population as practicable if:
(a) The population in any district exceeds the population in any other district by more than 10 percent pursuant to estimates of population prepared by an employee of the county in consultation with the demographer employed by the department of taxation pursuant to NRS 360.283; and
(b) The measure of population used in paragraph (a) is found to be reliable by the board of county commissioners.
5. If the board of county commissioners revises the county commissioner election districts pursuant to subsection 4, the revisions must be based on a special census conducted pursuant to NRS 244.183 or other legally acceptable enumeration of population.
6. Any county commissioner election district established or adjusted pursuant to this section must be composed of entirely contiguous territory, be as compact as practicable and preserve natural, political and traditional representation.
7. This section does not authorize an increase or decrease in the number of county commissioner election districts in a county.".
Amend the title of the bill by deleting the first and second lines and inserting:
"AN ACT relating to county commissioners; authorizing additional redistricting of county commissioner election districts; and providing other matters".
Amend the summary of the bill to read as follows:
"SUMMARY—Authorizes additional redistricting of county commissioner election districts. (BDR 20-1431)".