§ Iowa Code § 42.3Timetable for preparation of plan

42.3 Timetable for preparation of plan.
1. a. Not later than April 1 of each year ending in one, the legislative services agency
shall deliver to the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of representatives
identical bills embodying a plan of legislative and congressional districting prepared in
accordance with section 42.4. It is the intent of this chapter that the general assembly shall
bring the bill to a vote in either the senate or the house of representatives expeditiously,
but not less than three days after the report of the commission required by section 42.6 is
received and made available to the members of the general assembly, under a procedure or
rule permitting no amendments except those of a purely corrective nature. It is further the
intent of this chapter that if the bill is approved by the first house in which it is considered,
it shall expeditiously be brought to a vote in the second house under a similar procedure or
rule. If the bill embodying the plan submitted by the legislative services agency under this
subsection fails to be approved by a constitutional majority in either the senate or the house
of representatives, the secretary of the senate or the chief clerk of the house, as the case
may be, shall at once, but in no event later than seven days after the date the bill failed to be
approved, transmit to the legislative services agency information which the senate or house
may direct by resolution regarding reasons why the plan was not approved.
b. However, if the population data for legislative districting which the United States
census bureau is required to provide this state under Pub. L. No. 94-171 and, if used by the
legislative services agency, the corresponding topologically integrated geographic encoding
and referencing data file for that population data are not available to the legislative services
agency on or before February 15 of the year ending in one, the dates set forth in paragraph
“a” shall be extended by a number of days equal to the number of days after February 15
of the year ending in one that the federal census population data and the topologically
integrated geographic encoding and referencing data file for legislative districting become
available.
2. If the bill embodying the plan submitted by the legislative services agency under
subsection 1 fails to be enacted, the legislative services agency shall prepare a bill embodying
a second plan of legislative and congressional districting. The bill shall be prepared in
accordance with section 42.4, and, insofar as it is possible to do so within the requirements of
section 42.4, with the reasons cited by the senate or house of representatives by resolution,
or the governor by veto message, for the failure to approve the plan. If a second plan is
required under this subsection, the bill embodying it shall be delivered to the secretary of
the senate and the chief clerk of the house of representatives not later than thirty-five days
after the date of the vote by which the senate or the house of representatives fails to approve
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the bill submitted under subsection 1, or the date the governor vetoes or fails to approve the
bill. If it is necessary to submit a bill under this subsection, the bill shall be brought to a vote
not less than seven days after the bill is submitted and made available to the members of
the general assembly, under a procedure or rule permitting no amendments except those of
a purely corrective nature. It is further the intent of this chapter that if the bill is approved
by the first house in which it is considered, it shall expeditiously be brought to a vote in the
second house under a similar procedure or rule. If the bill embodying the plan submitted by
the legislative services agency under this subsection fails to be approved by a constitutional
majority in either the senate or the house of representatives, the secretary of the senate or
the chief clerk of the house, as the case may be, shall transmit to the legislative services
agency in the same manner as described in subsection 1, information which the senate or
house may direct by resolution regarding reasons why the plan was not approved.
3. If the bill embodying the plan submitted by the legislative services agency under
subsection 2 fails to be enacted, the same procedure as prescribed by subsection 2 shall be
followed. If a third plan is required under this subsection, the bill embodying it shall be
delivered to the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of representatives
not later than thirty-five days after the date of the vote by which the senate or the house
of representatives fails to approve the bill submitted under subsection 2, or the date the
governor vetoes or fails to approve the bill. The legislative services agency shall submit a
bill under this subsection sufficiently in advance of September 1 of the year ending in one
to permit the general assembly to consider the plan prior to that date. If it is necessary
to submit a bill under this subsection, the bill shall be brought to a vote within the same
time period after its delivery to the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house
of representatives as is prescribed for the bill submitted under subsection 2, but shall be
subject to amendment in the same manner as other bills.
§2 – 5; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §11, 12