WEST virginia legislature
2021 THIRD EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
Originating
Senate Bill 3033
By Senators Swope, Sypolt, Tarr, Weld, and Woelfel
[Originating in the Select Committee on Redistricting; reported on October 11, 2021]
A BILL to amend and reenact §1-2-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the composition of congressional districts; and providing for congressional districts.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
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 are
apportioned among the counties of the state, arranged into three two
congressional districts, numbered as follows:
First District: Barbour, Berkeley, Brooke, Doddridge,
Hampshire, Gilmer, Grant, Hancock, Hardy, Harrison, Jefferson,
Lewis, Marion, Marshall, Mineral, Monongalia, Morgan, Ohio, Pendleton,
Pleasants, Preston, Randolph, Ritchie, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur,
Wetzel, and Wood.
Second District: Berkeley, Boone, Braxton, Cabell,
Calhoun, Clay, Hampshire, Hardy, Fayette, Gilmer, Greenbrier, Jackson,
Jefferson, Kanawha, Lewis, Morgan, Pendleton, Lincoln, Logan,
Mason, McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, Monroe, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Putnam, Randolph,
Raleigh, Ritchie, Roane, Upshur Summers, Wayne, Webster, and
Wirt, and Wyoming.
Third District: Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier,
Lincoln, Logan, Mason, McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, Monroe, Nicholas, Pocahontas,
Raleigh, Summers, Wayne, Webster and Wyoming.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to delineate the congressional districts following the federal decennial census of 2020.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.