In exchange for his signing the maps, the Legislature agreed to ask voters to change the State Constitution to create a bipartisan commission to handle redistricting after the 2020 census.
"The U.F.C. wants the state athletic commissions to handle it, but even the jurisdictions that do some testing are insufficiently thorough," Dr. Goodman said.
The measure, passed by voice vote, creates a 23-member presidential commission to handle planning and logistics for a National Museum of African-American History asd Culture as part of the Smithsonian Institution.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who unsuccessfully sought to persuade lawmakers to create an independent commission to handle the redistricting process, has vowed repeatedly in recent months to veto the lines that the legislative task force was drawing.
In addition, in violation of a separate agreement that permits United Nations peacekeepers to operate in Haiti, Mr. Kurzban said, the organization failed to create a claims commission to handle grievances like those of the cholera victims.
While they disagreed on some other issues, Mr. Bruno and Mr. Silver appeared to agree when it came to hospital closings, an issue so contentious and polarizing in Albany that lawmakers created a commission to handle it.
Ms. Bartoletti and others have long called for setting up a nonpartisan commission to handle redistricting — "for years and years, decades now," she said — but legislators have been reluctant to cede power.
Yet the appointment of Pope Benedict XVI, following the death in 2005 of John Paul II who was seen by China as a more die-hard anti-communist, has encouraged tentative efforts by China to restore the ties with the Vatican that were severed in 1951.Last month the Vatican decided to appoint a commission to handle Chinese relations.
Only 10 percent of voters said they would be satisfied with state lawmakers redrawing the boundaries, as has been done in decades past, and 70 percent said that the governor should "speak out more forcefully" about the need for an independent commission to handle redistricting.
While the Myanmar government has set up a commission to handle the release of political prisoners — and has released some prisoners — the number of people in jail for political reasons has actually increased since Mr. Obama was there, because of new arrests.
