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S1528......................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
ELECTION PRECINCTS - Amends existing law to provide that election precinct
boundaries cannot be changed between January 15 in a year ending in 8 and
September 15 in a year ending in 1.
02/26 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/27 Rpt prt - to St Aff
03/03 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/04 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/09 3rd rdg - PASSED - 34-0-1
AYES--Andreason, Boatright, Branch, Bunderson, Burtenshaw, Cameron,
Crow, Danielson, Darrington, Deide, Dunklin, Frasure, Geddes, Hansen,
Hawkins, Ingram, Ipsen, Keough, King, Lee, McLaughlin, Noh, Parry,
Richardson, Riggs, Risch, Sandy, Schroeder, Stennett, Sweeney,
Thorne, Twiggs, Wheeler, Whitworth
NAYS--None
Absent and excused--Sorensen
Floor Sponsor - Twiggs
Title apvd - to House
03/10 House intro - 1st rdg - to St Aff
03/17 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/18 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/18 Rls susp - PASSED - 60-2-8
AYES -- Alltus, Barraclough, Bell, Bieter, Bivens, Black(15),
Black(23), Boe, Bruneel, Callister, Campbell, Chase, Clark, Cuddy,
Deal, Denney, Ellsworth, Field(13), Field(20), Gagner, Geddes, Gould,
Hadley, Henbest, Hornbeck, Jaquet, Jones(9), Jones(22), Jones(20),
Judd, Kellogg, Kempton, Kendell, Kjellander, Kunz, Lake, Linford,
Loertscher, Mader, Marley, McKague, Meyer, Mortensen, Newcomb,
Pischner, Pomeroy, Reynolds, Ridinger, Robison, Sali, Schaefer,
Stoicheff, Stubbs, Taylor, Tilman, Tippets, Watson, Wheeler,
Zimmermann, Mr Speaker
NAYS -- Richman, Stone
Absent and excused -- Barrett, Crane, Crow, Hansen, Miller,
Stevenson, Trail, Wood
Floor Sponsor - Henbest
Title apvd - to Senate
03/19 To enrol
03/20 Rpt enrol - Pres signed
03/23 Sp signed - to Governor
03/24 Governor signed
Session Law Chapter 276
Effective: 03/24/98
S1528|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO |||| Fifty-fourth Legislature Second Regular Session - 1998IN THE SENATE SENATE BILL NO. 1528 BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE 1 AN ACT 2 RELATING TO ELECTION PRECINCTS; AMENDING CHAPTER 3, TITLE 34, IDAHO CODE, BY 3 THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 34-307, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT PRECINCT 4 BOUNDARIES SHALL BE MAINTAINED WITHIN A SPECIFIED TIME PERIOD; AND DECLAR- 5 ING AN EMERGENCY. 6 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho: 7 SECTION 1. That Chapter 3, Title 34, Idaho Code, be, and the same is 8 hereby amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTION , to be 9 known and designated as Section 34-307, Idaho Code, and to read as follows: 10 34-307. PRECINCT BOUNDARIES MAINTAINED. From January 15 in any year end- 11 ing in 8 through September 15 in any year ending in 1, the board of county 12 commissioners shall make no changes in precinct boundaries, except that a sin- 13 gle precinct may be divided into two (2) or more new precincts wholly con- 14 tained within the original precinct. 15 SECTION 2. An emergency existing therefor, which emergency is hereby 16 declared to exist, this act shall be in full force and effect on and after its 17 passage and approval.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 07563
The purpose of this legislation is to freeze voting precinct
boundaries from January 15 of a year ending in 8 through
September 15 of a year ending in 1. The Census Bureau
requires that precinct boundaries be submitted in 1998 for
the Census 2000. This bill will allow the submission of
precinct boundaries to the Census Bureau and the use of these
precincts by the Commission on Reapportionment without any
change in the boundaries.
FISCAL NOTE
There is no fiscal
impact.
CONTACT: Jerry Twiggs
332-1300
S1528