[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 158 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 158

To require the use of independent nonpartisan commissions to carry out 
                      congressional redistricting.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2025

 Mr. Fitzpatrick introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the use of independent nonpartisan commissions to carry out 
                      congressional redistricting.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Citizen Legislature Anti-Corruption 
Reform of Elections Act'' or the ``CLEAN Elections Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING USE OF INDEPENDENT NONPARTISAN COMMISSIONS TO CARRY 
              OUT REDISTRICTING.

    (a) Requirement.--
            (1) Congressional redistricting.--Each State shall conduct 
        Congressional redistricting (beginning with the redistricting 
        carried out pursuant to the decennial census conducted during 
        2020) in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by a 
        nonpartisan independent redistricting commission.
            (2) Redistricting for state legislative districts.--
        Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a State may not use 
        any funds provided by the Federal Government directly for 
        election administration purposes unless the State certifies to 
        the Election Assistance Commission that the State conducts 
        redistricting for State legislative districts in the State 
        (beginning with the first such redistricting carried out after 
        the date of the enactment of this Act) in accordance with a 
        redistricting plan developed by a nonpartisan independent 
        redistricting commission.
    (b) Nonpartisan Independent Status.--For purposes of this section, 
a commission shall be considered to be a nonpartisan independent 
commission if--
            (1) the number of its members who are affiliated with the 
        political party with the largest percentage of the registered 
        voters in the State who are affiliated with a political party 
        (as determined with respect to the most recent statewide 
        election for Federal office held in the State for which such 
        information is available) is equal to the number of its members 
        who are affiliated with the political party with the second 
        largest percentage of the registered voters in the State who 
        are affiliated with a political party (as so determined); and
            (2) none of its members is an elected public official.
    (c) State Defined.--In this section, the term ``State'' means each 
of the several States.
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