H. B. 510
(By Delegates Staton, Givens, Mezzatesta, Pino,
Warner, Trump and Smirl)
[Originating in the Select Committee on Redistricting]
[Introduced September 13, 2001]
A BILL to amend and reenact section three, article two, chapter one
of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to the composition of
congressional districts.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section three, article two, chapter one of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATION.
§1-2-3. Congressional districts.
The number of members to which the state is entitled in the
House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States
shall
be are apportioned among the
several counties of the state, arranged into three congressional districts, numbered as follows:
First District: Barbour, Brooke, Doddridge,
Gilmer, Grant,
Hancock, Harrison, Marion, Marshall, Mineral, Monongalia, Ohio,
Pleasants, Preston, Ritchie, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Wetzel and
Wood.
Second District: Berkeley, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay,
Gilmer
Hampshire, Hardy, Jackson, Jefferson, Kanawha, Lewis, Mason,
Morgan,
Nicholas, Pendleton, Putnam, Randolph, Roane, Upshur and
Wirt.
Third District: Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier, Lincoln,
Logan, McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, Monroe,
Nicholas
, Pocahontas,
Raleigh, Summers, Wayne, Webster and Wyoming.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide for the
redistricting of the State's Congressional Districts. It moves
Gilmer County from the 2nd District to the 1st District and Nicholas
County from the 2nd District to the 3rd District.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.
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