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Restoring Electoral Stability to Enhance Trust (RESET) Act of 2025
To prohibit States from carrying out Congressional redistricting after a decennial census and apportionment.
Summary
This bill prohibits states from redrawing Congressional districts between decennial censuses and apportionments, effectively locking in district lines for 10 years after each census. States that have been redistricted after a decennial apportionment may not be redistricted again until after the next apportionment. Exceptions to this prohibition include redistricting ordered by a court to comply with the Constitution or the Voting Rights Act, or redistricting approved through a statewide referendum for constitutional compliance or Voting Rights Act enforcement. The bill does not affect how states conduct elections for state and local offices. The restrictions apply to Congressional redistricting that occurs after the 2020 census.
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- Oct 28, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- Oct 28, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 28, 2025
Mr. Davis of North Carolina introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To prohibit States from carrying out Congressional redistricting after a decennial census and apportionment.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE: FINDING OF CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY.
(a) Short Title.—This Act may be cited as the “Restoring Electoral Stability to Enhance Trust (RESET) Act of 2025”.
(b) Finding.—Congress finds that it has the authority to establish the terms and conditions States must follow in carrying out Congressional redistricting after an apportionment of Members of the House of Representatives because—
(1) the authority granted to Congress under Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States gives Congress the power to enact laws governing the time, place, and manner of elections for Members of the House of Representatives; and
(2) the authority granted to Congress under section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution gives Congress the power to enact laws to enforce section 2 of such amendment, which requires Representatives to be apportioned among the several States according to their number.
SEC. 2. LIMIT ON CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING AFTER AN APPORTIONMENT.
2 U.S.C. 2c is amended by adding at the end the following: “A State which has been redistricted in the manner provided by law after an apportionment under section 22(a) of the Act entitled ‘An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for an apportionment of Representatives in Congress’, approved June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a), may not be redistricted again until after the next apportionment of Representatives under such section, unless:
“(a) a court requires the State to conduct such subsequent redistricting to comply with the Constitution or to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 5 1973 et seq.).
“(b) a court conducts such subsequent redistricting to comply with the Constitution or to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 5 1973 et seq.), in which case a State, through its legislature or a state-mandated redistricting commission approved through a State constitution, shall have an opportunity following a court-constructed apportionment to conduct alternate subsequent redistricting to comply with the Constitution or to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 5 1973 et seq.).
“(c) a State orders a statewide referendum to conduct such subsequent redistricting to comply with the Constitution or to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 5 1973 et seq.).”.
SEC. 3. NO EFFECT ON ELECTIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL OFFICE.
Nothing in this Act or in any amendment made by this Act may be construed to affect the manner in which a State carries out elections for State or local office, including the process by which a State establishes the districts used in such elections.
SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.
Sections 2(a) and 2(b) and the amendment made by this Act shall apply with respect to any Congressional redistricting which occurs after the regular decennial census conducted during 2020. Section 2(c) shall apply only with respect to statewide referenda ordered after November 3, 2026. <all>
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