Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 120.djvu/611

 120 STAT. 580

PUBLIC LAW 109–246—JULY 27, 2006

‘‘(2) with respect to observers appointed pursuant to section 3(a), upon order of the authorizing court. ‘‘(b) A political subdivision referred to in subsection (a)(1) is one with respect to which the Director of the Census has determined that more than 50 per centum of the nonwhite persons of voting age residing therein are registered to vote. ‘‘(c) A political subdivision may petition the Attorney General for a termination under subsection (a)(1).’’. (c) REPEAL OF SECTIONS RELATING TO EXAMINERS.—Sections 6, 7, and 9 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973d, 1973e and 1973g) are repealed. (d) SUBSTITUTION OF REFERENCES TO ‘‘OBSERVERS’’ FOR REFERENCES TO ‘‘EXAMINERS’’.— (1) Section 3(a) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973a(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘examiners’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘observers’’. (2) Section 4(a)(1)(C) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973b(a)(1)(C)) is amended by inserting ‘‘or observers’’ after ‘‘examiners’’. (3) Section 12(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973j(b)) is amended by striking ‘‘an examiner has been appointed’’ and inserting ‘‘an observer has been assigned’’. (4) Section 12(e) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973j(e)) is amended— (A) by striking ‘‘examiners’’ and inserting ‘‘observers’’; and (B) by striking ‘‘examiner’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘observer’’. (e) CONFORMING CHANGES RELATING TO SECTION REFERENCES.— (1) Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973b(b)) is amended by striking ‘‘section 6’’ and inserting ‘‘section 8’’. (2) Subsections (a) and (c) of section 12 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973j(a) and 1973j(c)) are each amended by striking ‘‘7,’’. (3) Section 14(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973l(b)) is amended by striking ‘‘or a court of appeals in any proceeding under section 9’’. SEC. 4. RECONSIDERATION OF SECTION 4 BY CONGRESS.

Paragraphs (7) and (8) of section 4(a) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973b(a)) are each amended by striking ‘‘Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1982’’ and inserting ‘‘Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006’’. SEC. 5. CRITERIA FOR DECLARATORY JUDGMENT.

Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973c) is amended— (1) by inserting ‘‘(a)’’ before ‘‘Whenever’’; (2) by striking ‘‘does not have the purpose and will not have the effect’’ and inserting ‘‘neither has the purpose nor will have the effect’’; and (3) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(b) Any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting that has the purpose of or will have the effect of diminishing the ability

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