SB 271 - This act modifies provisions relating to reapportionment within political subdivisions. The act requires the election authority to publish notice of a tentative reapportionment plan and map of certain proposed wards, townships, and political party county committee districts not later than 5 months after each census has been reported to the President of the United States. The plan and map shall be made public along with all demographic and partisan data used in the creation of the plan and map. A final statement of the plan and map shall be adopted by the election authority not later than 6 months after each census has been reported to the President of the United States.
Under current law, two members of the political party city committee, a man and a woman, must be elected from each ward in the City of St. Louis. This act provides that if the number of wards in the City of St. Louis is reduced to less than 28, each time the reapportionment authority for the city adopts a reapportionment plan and map for the wards, the reapportionment authority shall also concurrently divide each ward into two compact and contiguous committee districts containing populations as nearly equal in population to each other as is practical, and thereafter, two members of the committee, a man and a woman, shall be elected from each committee district.
In St. Louis County, two members of the political party county committee of each established political party, a man and a woman, shall be elected from each township. The act requires the election authority in St. Louis County to divide the county into 28 compact and contiguous townships containing populations as nearly equal in population to each other as is practical within 6 months of August 28, 2023.
This act is identical to SB 928 (2022).
SCOTT SVAGERA