HB470 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Chris PringleRepresentative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Voting precincts; require county commissions to redraw following redistricting.

Summary

The bill would require Alabama counties to regularly redraw voting precincts after redistricting, with a formal plan and deadlines tied to the 2020 census maps.

What This Bill Does

County commissions must, by January 1, 2025, submit a procedure for redrawing voting precinct boundaries that includes a plan to divide county population evenly among precincts and keep the number of voters per precinct within five percentage points of the county average. The bill requires a schedule for adjusting precinct boundaries after the Legislature adopts redistricting maps, with changes occurring no later than two years after the maps are adopted. County commissions must complete the redraws not later than July 1, 2025 based on the redistricting maps adopted by the Legislature following the 2020 federal census, and must submit the updated maps and related details to the Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment.

Who It Affects

• County commissions in each Alabama county, who must create and submit the procedures and carry out the redraws by specified deadlines.
• Voters in Alabama counties, whose voting precinct boundaries and potentially polling locations may change as a result of the redraws.

Key Provisions

• Section 1(1): Each county commission must submit a plan for determining precinct boundaries that divides the county population by the number of needed precincts, calculates the average voters per precinct, and keeps the deviation from the average within five percentage points (plus or minus).
• Section 1(2): Each county commission must provide a schedule for adjusting precinct boundaries after redistricting maps are adopted, to occur no later than two years after the maps are adopted.
• Section 2: Each county commission must redraw precinct boundaries to comply with Section 1 by July 1, 2025 based on the Legislature's redistricting maps after the 2020 census, and must submit the updated precinct maps, legal descriptions, and geographic boundaries to the Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment.
• Section 3: The act becomes effective on October 1, 2024.

AI-generated summary using openai/gpt-5-nano on Feb 22, 2026. May contain errors — refer to the official bill text for accuracy.

Subjects

Reapportionment