North Dakota Senate OKs redistricting plan with added transparency provisions
Complaints of potentially obscured drafts prompted the Senate to amend the bill to make preliminary plans subject to open records laws and automatically available when introduced during redistricting committee meetings.
Written By: Jeremy Turley
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North Dakota's current legislative districts were crafted using figures from the 2010 U.S. Census. (Screenshot via North Dakota Legislature)
BISMARCK — The North Dakota Senate has approved a bill that would set the stage for redrawing the state's political boundaries later this year.
The upper chamber voted unanimously on Monday, April 5, to bounce the recently amended House Bill 1397 back to the House of Representatives, which overwhelmingly passed an earlier version of the legislation in February. The Republican-backed bill would assign a committee of lawmakers to draw new equally populated districts, a process that only comes around once every 10 years.