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There being a quorum present, the Con-
vention is in session.
We resume consideration of Committee
Recommendations LB-1, LB-2, LB-3, sec-
tion 3.03. Are there any further amend-
ments to section 3.03? Is Delegate Lord
here? Is Delegate Linton here? Delegate
Linton, does the comment that you will not
offer the amendment apply to both AA and
DD?
DELEGATE LINTON: Yes, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Carson.
DELEGATE CARSON: Mr. Chairman,
there was another amendment prepared
with the same sponsors as Amendment K.
I think I can safely speak for Delegate
Lord in that the other amendment will not
be offered.
THE PRESIDENT: Do you know which
amendment it was ?
DELEGATE CARSON: Frankly, I do
not know the number but it would have
called for how delegates would be assigned
within delegate districts if the former
amendment had passed.
THE PRESIDENT: It was an amend-
ment to section 3.03 ?
DELEGATE CARSON: Excuse me. It
was an amendment to 3.04.
THE PRESIDENT: All right. Are there
any other amendments to section 3.03 ?
The Chair hears none.
Amendments to 3.04? You withdraw
your amendment M, I take it, Delegate
Lord? I think that is the one to which you
refer, Delegate Carson?
DELEGATE CARSON: Yes, Mr. Chair-
man, that is withdrawn at this time.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Linton, do
you desire to offer your amendment EE to
section 3.04?
DELEGATE LINTON: We are with-
drawing all amendments to the section, to
this article.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Is Delegate Boyer
here ? Delegate Baumann ? Delegate Hick-
man ? Do you desire to offer Amendment
A?
DELEGATE HICKMAN: Is the Chair-
man of the Committee going to offer an
amendment to 3.04?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: I am.
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T,HE PRESIDENT: Delegate Gallagher,
do you propose to offer an amendment to
section 3.04?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: I do, Mr.
President, and if it is adopted, I think it
would render the proposed amendment
which Delegate Hickman and Boyer are
on unnecessary at this time.
THE PRESIDENT: Is this amendment
J?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Yes, sir,
amendment J.
THE PRESIDENT: Will the pages
please distribute amendment J? This will
be Amendment No. 15. The Clerk will read
the amendment. Does every delegate now
have a copy of Amendment J? If you have
not received Amendment J, please indicate
and the page will bring you a copy.
The Clerk will read the amendment.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 15
to Committee Recommendation LB-1, LB-2,
and LB-3, as amended by Report S&D-16,
by Delegates Gallagher and others: On
page 2, section 3.04, Legislative Districts,
in lines 25, 26 and 27 strike out beginning
with the numerals "1970" in line 25 down
to and including the words "election in" in
line 27; and in line 27 strike out the word
"twentieth" and insert in lieu thereof the
word "tenth".
THE PRESIDENT: The amendment hav-
ing been submitted by Delegate Gallagher
and seconded by the co-sponsors, the Chair
recognizes Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Presi-
dent, ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of
this amendment is to provide for redis-
tricting in 1982 and every tenth year there-
after which means therefore that from
1982 and every tenth year thereafter the
redistricting commission and the General
Assembly itself will have before it the re-
sults of the federal decennial census which
shall have been taken in the zero year
immediately prior to the second year.
We have taken the 1970 requirement for
redistricting and have put it in the sched-
ule of transition legislation so that those
who had planned to oppose the taking of
a redistricting prior to 1970 will have an
opportunity to oppose that when the tran-
sitional legislation comes to the floor.
We have attempted to make unnecessary
including "1970 and every twentieth year
thereafter and 1982 and every twentieth
year thereafter" by making it "every ten
years beginning in 1982" and so forth. In
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