BATON ROUGE — Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee members met beginning Tuesday evening and into the early hours of Wednesday as they considered competing congressional redistricting proposals; just before 12:30 a.m. Wednesday May 13, the committee voted 4-3 to reject Senate Bill 407, the map authored by Sen. Ed Price that would have retained two majority-democrat districts. This week the committee then focused on Senate Bill 121 from Sen. Jay Morris and other proposed plans, and after more than eight hours of public testimony a map with one majority-minority district was advanced in committee early Wednesday; the hearing followed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and Gov. Jeff Landry's halt of U.S. House races, and further legislative and legal steps are expected in coming days.
Prepared by Lauren Mitchell and reviewed by editorial team.
这不仅仅是关于地图。这关系到你的投票。选区的划分方式会影响谁当选。这会影响国会的权力平衡。请密切关注事态发展。你的投票权重可能会改变。
参议院委员会否决了一份地图,但推进了另一份。这并非终点。更多立法和法律步骤即将到来。保持关注。你的投票权就取决于此。如果你的朋友重视他们的投票权,请转发。
支持 SB121 地图以及倾向于单一多数少数族裔选区的立法者在委员会中获得了动力,因为该小组批准了一项多数少数族裔计划,从而在参议院与政府事务委员会推进了他们偏好的重新划分。
参议员埃德·普赖斯(Ed Price)以及寻求两个多数黑人选区的倡导者等SB407的支持者,在委员会中看到了该提案被否决,在5月12日至13日的听证会上未能推进。
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