California Senate, Congressional, and Assembly Districts

This directory contains data regarding the current California Senate
and Congressional districts, in ESRI Shapefile format. These
shapefiles have been reprojected to the Teale Albers, NAD 1983 
projection. The California State Senate data was downloaded from 
"California State Senate data":http://www.sen.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/senplan/GEOGRAPHY/SEN_LAW_SHP.ZIP .  The California State Congressional 
data was downloaded from "California State Congressional data":http://www.sen.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/cngplan/GEOGRAPHY/CNG_LAW_SHP.ZIP. The California 
State Assembly data was downloaded from "California State Assembly data":http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/committee/c7/asmfinal/asmfinal_shp.zip .

* *senate_districts -*  contains the senate district regions 
* *congressional_districts -*  contains the congressional district regions 
* *assembly_districts -* contains the assembly district regions

The current boundaries for California's Assembly, Senate, Congressional, 
and State Board of Equalization districts were enacted on September 13, 2001, 
and was signed into law on September 26, 2001 by the Governor. Further 
information regarding the reapportionment of state senate and congressional 
districts can be found in the following document: "Reapportionment Information":http://www.senate.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/COMMITTEE/STANDING/EL/_home/Doj_sec5.pdf .  The 
current statewide senate district map can be found at: "CA Senate Map":http://www.sen.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/senplan/SENMAPS/SD_STATE8X11.PDF .  The current 
statewide congressional district map can be found at: "CA Congressional Map":http://www.sen.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/cngplan/CNGMAPS/CD_STATE8X11.PDF . 
The current statewide assembly district map can be found at:  "CA Assembly Map":http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/committee/c7/2001pdfs/2001ADOverview.pdf .  All 
of these maps are in PDF format.

In this directory, we have written FGDC metadata, in XML format, pertaining to the three reprojected shapefiles.