1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to redistricting; adopting a congressional 
  1.3             redistricting plan for use in 2002 and thereafter; 
  1.4             amending Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 2.031, 
  1.5             subdivision 2; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2000, 
  1.6             sections 2.742; 2.752; 2.762; 2.772; 2.782; 2.792; 
  1.7             2.802; 2.812. 
  1.8   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.9      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 2.031, 
  1.10  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  1.11     Subd. 2.  [DEFINITION.] The terms "county," "town," 
  1.12  "township," "city," "ward," "precinct," "census tract," "block," 
  1.13  and "unorganized territory" when used in a description of a 
  1.14  legislative or congressional district in sections 2.043 to 2.703 
  1.15  this chapter, mean a geographical area established as such by 
  1.16  law and as it existed for purposes of the 1990 federal census in 
  1.17  the geographic database of the geographic information systems 
  1.18  office of the legislative coordinating commission on May 9, 2001.
  1.19     Sec. 2.  [PLAN ADOPTED.] 
  1.20     Congressional redistricting plan C...., on file with the 
  1.21  geographic information systems office of the legislative 
  1.22  coordinating commission and published on its Web site on ....., 
  1.23  2001, is adopted as the congressional redistricting plan for 
  1.24  this state.  
  1.25     Sec. 3.  [METES AND BOUNDS DESCRIPTION.] 
  1.26     Within 90 days after enactment of this act and in 
  2.1   accordance with Minnesota Statutes, section 2.91, the revisor of 
  2.2   statutes shall prepare a metes and bounds description of the 
  2.3   congressional districts in a form suitable for publication in 
  2.4   Minnesota Statutes and file it with the secretary of state.  The 
  2.5   secretary of state shall immediately provide a copy of the metes 
  2.6   and bounds description to each county auditor. 
  2.7      Sec. 4.  [REPEALER.] 
  2.8      Minnesota Statutes 2000, sections 2.742; 2.752; 2.762; 
  2.9   2.772; 2.782; 2.792; 2.802; and 2.812, are repealed. 
  2.10     Sec. 5.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.11     This act is effective for the state primary election in 
  2.12  2002 and thereafter.