California Regulations § 60863 Commission Vacancies

(a) If a vacancy occurs on the commission before it completes its redistricting function, and the commission is unable to fill the vacancy with an applicant from the same subpool of applicants that the vacating commissioner was drawn or selected from, as it existed on July 5 of the application year, the commission shall provide written notification to the State Auditor. Upon receiving the written notice, the State Auditor shall, as soon as practicable, reconvene a panel to create a new subpool consisting of twenty of the most qualified applicants having the same party affiliation or nonaffiliation as the vacating commissioner. In creating the new subpool, the panel shall attempt to fill the subpool with applicants who participated in the most recent application process, according to the following order:

(b) If a vacancy occurs on the commission after it completes its redistricting function, and the commission determines that it needs to fill the vacancy but is unable to fill it with an applicant from the same subpool of applicants that the vacating commissioner was drawn or selected from, as it existed on July 5 of the application year, the commission shall provide written notification to the State Auditor. Upon receiving the written notice, the State Auditor shall, as soon as practicable, reconvene a panel to create a new subpool consisting of twenty of the most qualified applicants having the same party affiliation or nonaffiliation as the vacating commissioner. In creating the new subpool, the panel shall attempt to fill the subpool with applicants who participated in the most recent application process in the manner specified by paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a).

(c) "Completes its redistricting function," for the purposes of this section, means approving four final maps that separately set forth the district boundary lines for the Congressional, Senate, Assembly, and State Board of Equalization districts and certifying the four final maps to the Secretary of State.

(d) In creating a new subpool of applicants, the panel shall comply with the requirements of subdivisions (d) and (e) of section 8252 of the Government Code, with the State Auditor's Office establishing a date for receiving from the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly a joint list of the applicants remaining after the Legislative Leaders have exercised their right to exercise strikes. Upon creating a new subpool, the panel shall submit the names of the applicants in the subpool to the commission with the application materials and recorded interviews of each of the applicants.