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    Sneaking in H.J.R 15

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    Sneaking in H.J.R 15 Empty Sneaking in H.J.R 15

    Post by Neno Wed 09 Jan 2013, 9:21 am

    Info received from another... ;)




    Subject: H.J.R 15

    Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:17:04 -0800




    I've come across some information
    which can be very detrimental to our wonderful United States of
    America. I received an email from WND earlier this morning regards to a
    Senator in New York who has slipped a bill underneath the radar while
    'fiscal cliff' talks were being negotiated to keep our taxes down- while
    now they're going up about 2% more- not to be outdone our health
    insurance is going up 2.4% as well.




    US Representative Jose Serrano D- NY has attempted to have the 22nd Amendment of the US Constitution removed in 2003, 2009, and
    2011- which requires US Presidents to serve 2 terms in the White House,
    and to change it to 'unlimited' so his buddy "Barack NO HOUSE Obama"
    can get reelected over and over as many times as needed. This used to be
    H.J.R. bill 5 before it failed those previous 3 times.




    We all need to flood out his voice-mail and his office full of calls
    he will not persuade members of Congress nor the People of the United
    States of his crap and destroy our Constitution. This our Constitution-
    not theirs and we will hold each and every one of them accountable for
    their actions. Capitol Hill phone # is (202)325-2131, make sure you get transferred to Jose Serranos office there in New York and DC.




    Let's make a lot of noise!!!!!
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    Post by Neno Wed 09 Jan 2013, 9:25 am

    http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/res.cfm?ID=128_HJR_15


    As Adopted by the House
    <table align="LEFT" cols="1" width="100%"><tr><td colspan="1" align="CENTER" valign="MIDDLE" width="49%">128th General Assembly</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" align="CENTER" valign="MIDDLE" width="49%">Regular Session</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" align="CENTER" valign="MIDDLE" width="49%">2009-2010</td></tr></table><table align="RIGHT" cols="1" width="100%"><tr><td colspan="1" align="CENTER" valign="MIDDLE" width="49%">Am. H. J. R. No. 15</td></tr></table>




    Representatives Letson, Garrison


    Cosponsors:
    Representatives Belcher, Bolon, Boyd, Carney, Celeste, Chandler,
    DeBose, Dodd, Domenick, Dyer, Fende, Foley, Garland, Garrison, Gerberry,
    Goyal, Hagan, Harris, Harwood, Koziura, Luckie, Mallory, Moran, Murray,
    Newcomb, Patten, Phillips, Pillich, Pryor, Stewart, Sykes, Szollosi,
    Walter, Williams, B.



    A JOINT RESOLUTION

    		 Proposing to amend Sections 1, 2, 6, 12, 13, and 15
    of Article XI, to amend, for the purpose of
    adopting new section numbers as indicated in
    parentheses, Sections 6 (3), 12 (6), 13 (7), and
    15 (9) of Article XI, to enact new Sections 4, 5,
    and 8 of Article XI, and to repeal Sections 3, 4,
    5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 14 of Article XI of the
    Constitution of the State of Ohio to revise the
    process for apportioning the state for General
    Assembly districts.
    Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio,
    three-fifths of the members elected to each house concurring
    herein, that there shall be submitted to the electors of the
    state, in the manner prescribed by law at the general election to
    be held on November 2, 2010, a proposal to amend Sections 1, 2, 6, 12,
    13, and 15 of Article XI, to amend, for the purpose of adopting
    new section numbers as indicated in parentheses, Sections 6 (3),
    12 (6), 13 (7), and 15 (9) of Article XI, and to enact new
    Sections 4, 5, and 8 of Article XI of the Constitution of the
    State of Ohio to read as follows:

    1. (A) The governor, auditor of state, secretary of
    state, one person chosen by the speaker of the house of
    representatives and the leader in the senate of the political
    party of which the speaker is a member, and one person chosen by
    the legislative leaders in the two houses of the major political
    party of which the speaker is not a member shall be the persons
    responsible for the apportionment of this state for members of the
    general assembly and shall collectively be referred to as the
    apportionment board. The apportionment board shall decide all
    matters coming before it by a majority vote of its members present
    at any meeting. Members of the board may be represented by their
    respective designees at any meeting of the board    .
    Such persons(B) The apportionment board, or a majority of their numberits members, shall meet and establish in the manner
    prescribed in this Articlearticle an apportionment of the state
    that defines     the boundaries for each of ninety-nine house of
    representatives districts and thirty-three senate districts by the
    first day of October of the year in which the board convenes    . Such
    meeting shall convene on a date designated by the governor between
    August 1 and October 1 in the year one thousand nine hundred
    seventy-one and every tenth year thereafter. The
    (C) All meetings of the apportionment board shall be open to
    the public. The apportionment board shall be convened by the
    governor, who shall preside at its meetings, not later than the
    third Tuesday in January in each year ending in the numeral one.
    The     governor shall give such persons two weeksone week's advance public notice of the date, time, and place of sucheach
    apportionment board     meeting. The board may adopt procedural rules
    for its operation.
    The(D) Upon its establishment, the governor shall cause the
    apportionment to be published no later than October 5 of the year
    in which it is made,     in such manner as provided by law. Upon the
    publication of the apportionment, the apportionment board shall
    adjourn until the next year ending in the numeral one or until
    convened under Section 7 of this article.

    Section 2. (A) The apportionment of this state for members of
    the general assembly shall be made in the following manner: The
    (1) The whole population of the state, as determined by the
    federal decennial census or, if such is unavailable, such other
    basis as the general assembly may direct, shall be divided by the
    number "ninety-nine" and the quotient shall be the ratio of
    representation in the house of representatives for ten years next
    succeeding such apportionment. The
    (2) The whole population of the state as determined by the
    federal decennial census or, if such is unavailable, such other
    basis as the general assembly may direct, shall be divided by the
    number "thirty-three" and the quotient shall be the ratio of
    representation in the senate for ten years next succeeding such
    apportionment.
    (B) The population of each house of representatives district
    shall be substantially equal to the ratio of representation in the
    house of representatives, as provided in division (A) of this
    section, and in no event shall any house of representatives
    district contain a population of less than ninety-five per cent
    nor more than one hundred five per cent of the ratio of
    representation in the house of representatives.
    (C) The population of each senate district shall be
    substantially equal to the ratio of representation in the senate,
    as provided in division (A) of this section, and in no event shall
    any senate district contain a population of less than ninety-five
    per cent nor more than one hundred five per cent of the ratio of
    representation in the senate.
    (D) Each house of representatives district shall be entitled
    to a single representative in each general assembly. Each senate
    district shall be entitled to a single senator in each general
    assembly.


    Section 6 3. (A) District boundaries established pursuant to
    this Articlearticle shall not be changed until the ensuing
    federal decennial census and the ensuing apportionment or as
    provided in section 137 of this Articlearticle, notwithstanding
    the fact that boundaries of political subdivisions or city wards
    within the district may be changed during that time. District
    boundaries shall be created by using the boundaries of political
    subdivisions
    and city wards as they exist at the time of the
    federal decennial census on which the apportionment is based, or if unavailable, on such other basis as the general assembly has
    directed.
    (B) Each house of representatives district shall be composed
    of contiguous territory, and the boundary of each district shall
    be a single nonintersecting continuous line.
    (C) Each senate district shall be composed of three
    contiguous house of representatives districts.
    (D) Any island shall be part of the district which is
    geographically closest to the island.

    4. (A) The secretary of state, by the first day of
    April in a year ending in the numeral one, shall do all of the
    following:
    (1) Gather and make available to the public, in a form that
    facilitates data analysis and the drawing of legislative
    districts:
    (a) Thorough and accurate census data; and
    (b) Information detailing the boundaries of political
    subdivisions and election precincts.
    (2) Establish and make public the statewide partisan index,
    which shall be calculated as follows:
    (a) Using the results of all nonjudicial Ohio statewide state
    or federal elections in the ten years immediately preceding the
    year of an apportionment, the secretary of state shall determine
    the three elections that had the smallest percentage margin
    between the highest and second highest nominees of a political
    party. If in any of the three elections the percentages of the two
    highest nominees of political parties do not equal one hundred per
    cent, the remaining percentage for that election shall be
    attributed to the parties of the two highest nominees in the ratio
    of the percentages received by those nominees.
    (b) The secretary of state then shall add together the
    percentage of the vote received by the candidates with the same
    political party affiliation for each of the three elections
    described in division (A)(2)(a) of this section and divide each of
    those totals by three to establish the statewide partisan index
    for those political parties.
    (3) Establish and make public the precinct partisan index of
    each election precinct. To establish the precinct partisan index
    for each precinct in the state, the secretary of state shall add
    together the percentage of the vote received in that precinct by
    the political party nominees described in division (A)(2)(a) of
    this section. If in any of the three elections the percentages of
    those nominees do not equal one hundred per cent, the remaining
    percentage for those nominees in those elections shall be
    attributed to the parties of those nominees in the ratio of the
    percentages received by those nominees. The secretary of state
    shall then divide the percentage totals by three to establish the
    precinct partisan index for each political party in each precinct
    in the state.
    (B) The secretary of state shall also provide to the
    apportionment board, and make public, any additional data or
    election information the apportionment board requests in the form
    requested.
    (C) The general assembly shall make appropriations to
    adequately fund the activities of the apportionment board and the
    secretary of state's activities in support of the board,
    including, but not limited to, the provision of funds for
    equipment and staff.
    5. (A) District boundaries for house of
    representatives and senate districts shall be established in
    accordance with the provisions of this section.
    (B) The apportionment board shall administer a public
    competition to determine the house of representatives district map
    and the senate district map that comply, to the greatest extent,
    with the criteria set forth below. Those maps shall be adopted by
    the apportionment board as the general assembly maps until the
    next apportionment and shall be effective for the next subsequent
    general assembly.
    (C) Any resident of Ohio may submit one proposed house of
    representative district map and one proposed senate district map
    in the manner prescribed by the apportionment board. Plans shall
    be kept confidential by the board and its staff until the deadline
    for plan submission, at which time all properly submitted plans
    shall be made public.
    (D)(1)(a) Proposed maps shall, to the greatest extent
    possible, contain the number of house of representatives districts
    and senate districts that favor each political party represented
    in the state partisan index in the ratio reflected by that index.
    (b) No house of representatives district map may be adopted
    by the apportionment board that fails to include the number of
    districts favoring each political party in the ratio reflected by
    the state partisan index.
    (c) No senate district map may be adopted by the
    apportionment board that fails to include the number of districts
    favoring each political party in the ratio reflected by the state
    partisan index unless doing so is impossible, in which case the
    only senate map that may be adopted by the apportionment board is
    one that includes the number of districts favoring each political
    party in a ratio as close to that reflected by the state partisan
    index as is possible.
    (2)(a) For the purpose of evaluating proposed maps, the
    district partisan index shall be calculated for each proposed
    district in each map submitted in the competition that meets the
    requirements of division (D)(1) of this section.
    (b) The district partisan index shall be calculated by first
    adding together, for each of the elections represented in the
    calculation of the statewide partisan index, the number of votes
    cast in each precinct in a proposed district for the nominees of
    each of the political parties in those elections. The
    district-wide vote totals for the nominee of each party in each of
    the three elections shall be used to determine the district
    partisan ratio for each of those three elections by determining,
    from all votes cast for either such party in each election, the
    percentage of votes cast for the nominee of each party in each
    election. The average of those three percentages for each party
    will establish the district partisan index for each party in each
    proposed district.
    (E) In evaluating proposed maps, the apportionment board
    shall determine the extent to which the district partisan index of
    each proposed house of representatives district and each proposed
    senate district varies from the statewide partisan index. In
    particular, for each map, the board shall determine the number of
    districts in which the district partisan index varies from the
    state partisan index by:
    (1) Less than one per cent;
    (2) An amount equal to or greater than one per cent and less
    than three per cent;
    (3) An amount equal to or greater than three per cent and
    less than five per cent;
    (4) An amount equal to or greater than five per cent and less
    than ten per cent; and
    (5) An amount equal to or greater than ten per cent.
    (F) Any map, with respect to the categories set forth in
    divisions (E)(2) to (5) of this section, that has an equal number
    of proposed districts in which the district partisan index favors
    each political party which is represented in the state partisan
    index in each of those categories will be deemed a better map than
    one which has an unequal number of proposed districts in which the
    district partisan index favors each political party in each of
    those categories.
    (G) If two or more maps are presented that equally meet the
    criteria set forth in division (F) of this section, any map with a
    greater number of proposed districts in which the district
    partisan indices are between forty-nine per cent and fifty-one per
    cent will be preferred over other such maps.
    (H) If no map is presented that meets the criteria set forth
    in division (F) of this section, or if two or more maps equally
    meet the criteria set forth in division (G) of this section, the
    map with closest to an equal number of proposed districts in which
    the district partisan index favors each political party in each of
    the categories set forth in division (E) of this section will be
    deemed a better map than one which has a greater variance from an
    equal number of proposed districts in which the district partisan
    index favors each political party in those categories.
    (I) If two or more maps are presented that equally meet the
    criteria set forth in division (H) of this section, any map with a
    greater number of proposed districts in which the district
    partisan indices are between forty-nine per cent and fifty per
    cent will be deemed a better map than other such maps.
    (J) If two or more maps are presented that equally meet the
    criteria set forth in division (I) of this section, the map that
    preserves the greatest percentage of undivided municipalities will
    be deemed a better map than one that preserves fewer undivided
    municipalities.
    (K) If two or more maps are presented that equally meet the
    criteria set forth in division (J) of this section, the map with
    the lowest compactness index will be deemed a better map than
    others with a higher compactness index. For the purpose of this
    division, the compactness index will be calculated by averaging
    the compactness of all proposed districts in the map. The
    compactness of each proposed district shall be determined by
    dividing the area of the proposed district by its perimeter.
    (L) If two or more maps are presented that equally meet the
    criteria set forth in division (K) of this section, the
    apportionment board shall randomly select the map to be adopted
    from among those maps which equally meet the criteria set forth in
    that division.
    (M) The public competition for the establishment of senate
    districts shall not commence until the board has established the
    house of representatives districts.
    (N) Any map adopted by the apportionment board shall comply
    with all applicable federal constitutional provisions and all
    applicable federal statutory provisions, including, but not
    limited to, those dealing specifically with the protection of
    minority voting rights.
    (O) In calculating any of the percentages or indices in this
    article, all calculations shall be made to within one
    one-thousandth of one percent.

    Section 12 6. (A) Except as specified in division (B) of
    this section, the apportionment board shall determine the
    appropriate district numbers for house of representatives
    districts and senate districts, seeking, in its sole and exclusive
    discretion, to assign numbers that will minimize voter confusion.
    (B) At any time the boundaries of senate districts are
    changed in any plan of apportionment made pursuant to any
    provision of this Articlearticle, a senator whose term will not
    expire within two years of the time the plan of apportionment is
    made shall represent, for the remainder of the term for which
    hethe senator was elected, the senate district which contains the
    largest portion of the population of the district from which hethe senator was elected, and the district shall be given the
    number of the district from which the senator was elected. If more
    than one senator whose term will not so expire would represent the
    same district by following the provisions of this section, the persons responsible for apportionment, by a majority of their
    number,    board shall designate which senator shall represent the
    district and shall designate which district the other senator or
    senators shall represent for the balance of their term or terms.

    Section 13 7. The supreme court of Ohio(A) Notwithstanding
    any provision of this Constitution or any law, the apportionment
    special tribunal established in division (B) of this section     shall
    have exclusive, original jurisdiction in all cases and questions
    of law     arising under this Articlearticle. In the event that any
    section of this Constitution relating to apportionment or any plan
    of apportionment made by the persons responsible for
    apportionment, by a majority of their number,board is determined
    to be invalid by either the supreme court of Ohio,apportionment
    special tribunal     or the supreme court of the United Statesby an
    unappealed final order of a federal court of competent
    jurisdiction    , then notwithstanding any other provisions of this
    Constitution, the persons responsible for apportionment by a
    majority of their number    board shall ascertain and determineconvene to establish a plan of apportionment in conformity with
    such provisions of this Constitution as are then valid, including
    establishing terms of office and election of members of the
    general assembly from districts designated in the plan, to be used
    until the next regular apportionment in conformity with such
    provisions of this Constitution as are then valid.
    Notwithstanding any provision of this Constitution or any law
    regarding the residence of senators and representatives, a plan of
    apportionment made pursuant to this section shall allow thirty
    days for persons to change residence in order to be eligible for
    election.
    The governor shall give the persons responsible for
    apportionment two weeks advance written notice of the date, time,
    and place of any meeting held pursuant to this section    . A decision
    of the apportionment special tribunal shall be final and is not
    appealable    .
    (B) The apportionment special tribunal shall be composed of
    the following:
    (1) Two retired Ohio judges appointed by the governor;
    (2) Two retired Ohio judges appointed by the first of the
    following legislative leaders that is a member of a political
    party represented in the state partisan index that is not the
    political party of which the governor is a member:
    (a) The president of the Ohio senate;
    (b) The speaker of the Ohio house of representatives;
    (c) The minority leader of the Ohio senate; or
    (d) The minority leader of the Ohio house of representatives.
    (3) One retired Ohio judge, who will preside over the
    tribunal, who shall be appointed by the four judges appointed
    under divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section.
    (C) The retired Ohio judges appointed under division (B) of
    this section shall have voluntarily retired from judicial service
    more than one year before their appointment to the apportionment
    special tribunal.
    (D) In each year ending in the numeral one, a new
    apportionment special tribunal shall be appointed. Members of the
    tribunal are eligible for reappointment.
    (E) The apportionment special tribunal shall operate using
    the rules of the Ohio supreme court, except as clearly
    inapplicable, and shall have all of the constitutional and
    statutory authority that the Ohio supreme court would have if it
    had jurisdiction to review cases and certified questions arising
    under this article, but at no time shall the tribunal or any other
    court order the establishment or implementation of any
    apportionment plan or the establishment or implementation of any
    house of representatives or senate district boundary map that has
    not been approved by the apportionment board in the manner
    prescribed by this article.
    (F) The general assembly shall make appropriations to
    adequately fund the activities of the apportionment special
    tribunal, including, but not limited to, the provision of funds
    for equipment and staff, and shall make other laws to facilitate
    the operations of the tribunal.
    8. Notwithstanding any provision of this
    Constitution or any law regarding the residence of senators and
    representatives, a plan of apportionment made pursuant to this
    article shall allow thirty days for persons to change residence in
    order to be eligible for election.
    Section 15 9. The various provisions of this Article XIarticle are intended to be severable, and the invalidity of one or
    more of such provisions shall not affect the validity of the
    remaining provisions.
    EFFECTIVE DATE
    If adopted by a majority of the electors voting on this
    proposal, Sections 1, 2, 6 (3), 12 (6), 13 (7), and 15 (9) of
    Article XI amended or amended and renumbered by this proposal and
    new Sections 4, 5, and 8 of Article XI enacted by this proposal
    shall take effect on January 1, 2011, and existing Sections 1, 2,
    6, 12, 13, and 15 and Sections 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 14 of
    Article XI of the Constitution of Ohio are repealed from that
    effective date.
    SCHEDULE
    The amendments to Section 12 (6) of Article XI of the Ohio
    Constitution in part substitute gender neutral for gender specific
    language. These gender neutralizing amendments are not intended to
    make a substantive change in the Ohio Constitution. The gender
    neutral language is to be construed as a restatement of, and
    substituted in a continuing way for, the corresponding gender
    specific language existing prior to adoption of the gender
    neutralizing amendments.
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