11-304. Data used for legislative redistricting; adjustment. - Kansas Statutes

11-304

Chapter 11.--CENSUS Article 3.--CENSUS DATA FOR LEGISLATIVE AND CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING

      11-304.   Data used for legislative redistricting; adjustment. (a) The secretary of state shall obtain decennial census information obtained by the United States bureau of the census for each county, city, precinct and part of a precinct that is given an identifying code. The secretary of state shall adjust each piece of such information, and adjust each and all of the same in an organized manner to carry out the provisions of K.S.A. 11-301, and amendments thereto. When such information is so organized, the secretary of state shall present the adjusted federal census information to the legislature, but not later than July 31 in the year following each federal decennial census.

      (b)   The census information obtained by the secretary of state for the purposes of subsection (a) shall be identical to the data from the actual enumeration conducted by the United States bureau of the census and used for the apportionment of representatives of the United States house of representatives. The secretary of state shall not use bureau of the census counts derived by any other means, including the use of statistical sampling, to add or subtract population by inference.

      History:   L. 1989, ch. 257, § 4; L. 1999, ch. 148, § 1; July 1.