1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	proposing an amendment to the Minnesota Constitution,
1.3 	article IV, section 3; providing for multimember
1.4 	senate and house districts that coincide with
1.5 	congressional district boundaries; amending Minnesota
1.6 	Statutes 2004, sections 2.021; 2.031, subdivision 1.
1.7 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.8 	Section 1. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
 1.9 	An amendment to the Minnesota Constitution, article IV,
1.10 	section 3, is proposed to the people. If the amendment is
1.11 	adopted, the section will read:

1.12 	Sec. 3. At its first session after each enumeration of the
1.13 	inhabitants of this state made by the authority of the United
1.14 	States, the legislature shall have the power to prescribe the
1.15 	bounds of congressional and legislative districts.  Senators
1.16 	shall be chosen by single multimember districts of convenient
1.17 	contiguous territory that coordinate with congressional
1.18 	districts.  No representative district shall be divided in the
1.19 	formation of a senate district.  The senate districts shall be
1.20 	numbered in a regular series.

1.21 	Sec. 2. SCHEDULE AND QUESTION.
 1.22 	The proposed amendment must be submitted to the people at
1.23 	the 2006 general election.  The question submitted shall be:
1.24 	"Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to provide for
1.25 	multimember senate districts that coordinate with congressional
1.26 	districts? 
2.1 	Yes .......
2.2 	                                   No ........" 

2.3 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 2.021, is amended
2.4 	to read:
2.5 	2.021 NUMBER OF MEMBERS.
2.6 	For each legislature, until a new apportionment shall have
2.7 	been made, the senate is composed of 67 no fewer than 60 and no
2.8 	more than 64 members and the house of representatives is
2.9 	composed of 134 members.
2.10 	In 2013 and thereafter, the senate must be composed of a
2.11 	number of senators evenly divisible by the number of
2.12 	representatives in Congress apportioned to the state.

2.13 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 2.031,
2.14 	subdivision 1, is amended to read:
2.15 		Subdivision 1.Legislative districts.  The
2.16 	representatives in the senate and house of representatives are
2.17 	apportioned throughout the state in 67 senate districts and 134
2.18 	house districts the number of senate and house districts
2.19 	provided by law.  No congressional district boundary may be
2.20 	crossed in forming a senate district.  Each senate district is
2.21 	entitled to elect one senator eight senators and each house
2.22 	district is entitled to elect one representative.

2.23 	Sec. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.24 	Sections 3 and 4 are effective for any apportionment to be
2.25 	effective in 2013 or thereafter, if the constitutional amendment
2.26 	proposed by sections 1 and 2 is ratified by the voters.