Bill Summaries: all (2011-2012 Session)

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  • Summary date: Jul 28 2011 - View summary

    AN ACT TO REALIGN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS FOLLOWING THE RETURN OF THE 2010 FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS. Summarized in Daily Bulletin 3/29/11, 7/24/11, and 7/27/11. Enacted July 28, 2011. Effective July 28, 2011, and applies to elections held on or after January 1, 2012.


  • Summary date: Jul 27 2011 - View summary

    House committee substitute makes the following changes to 2nd edition.
    Moves a specified voting tabulation district in Greene County from District 3 to District 1. Moves specified portions of Pitt County from District 1 to District 3, and moves other specified portions from District 3 to District 1. Moves specified portion of Iredell County from District 5 to District 9. Moves specified portions of Guilford County from District 6 to District 12. Moves specified portions of Buncombe County from District 10 to District 11, and moves other specified portions from District 11 to District 10.
    A map of the congressional districts proposed in the committee substitute is posted on the General Assembly’s website here.


  • Summary date: Jul 24 2011 - View summary

    Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to 1st edition.
    Amends GS 163-201 to divide North Carolina into 13 congressional districts to nominate and elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012 and every two years thereafter, as follows. District 1 includes the following counties: Bertie, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, Warren, and specified parts of Beaufort, Chowan, Craven, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gates, Granville, Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Vance, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson. District 2 includes the following counties: Lee, Moore, and specified parts of Alamance, Chatham, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Randolph, and Wake. District 3 includes the following counties: Camden, Carteret, Currituck, Dare, Hyde, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico, Tyrell, and specified parts of Beaufort, Chowan, Craven, Gates, Greene, Lenoir, Martin, New Hanover, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, and Washington. District 4 includes specified parts of the following counties: Alamance, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Harnett, Orange, and Wake. District 5 includes the following counties: Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Davie, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin, and specified parts of Catawba, Davidson, Forsyth, Iredell, and Rowan. District 6 includes the following counties: Caswell, Person, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, and specified parts of Alamance, Durham, Granville, Guilford, and Orange. District 7 includes the following counties: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin, Johnston, Sampson, and specified parts of Cumberland, Hoke, Lenoir, New Hanover, Pender, and Robeson. District 8 includes the following counties: Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Scotland, Stanly, and specified parts of Cabarrus, Davidson, Mecklenburg, Randolph, Robeson, Rowan, and Union. District 9 includes specified parts of the following counties: Iredell, Mecklenburg, and Union. District 10 includes the following counties: Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Polk, Rutherford, and specified parts of Buncombe and Catawba. District 11 includes the following counties: Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Swain, Transylvania, Yancey, and specified parts of Buncombe. District 12 includes specified parts of the following counties: Cabarrus, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg, and Rowan. District 13 includes specified parts of the following counties: Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Nash, Vance, Wake, Wayne, and Wilson. Applies to elections held on or after January 1, 2012.
    A map of the congressional districts proposed in the committee substitute is posted on the General Assembly’s website here.


  • Summary date: Mar 29 2011 - View summary

    Amends GS 163-201 but leaves the 13 districts blank. Applies to elections held on or after January 1, 2012.