TOPEKA (AP) – A Kansas House committee has put off a hearing on a new Senate redistricting map until next week.
The House Redistricting Committee canceled a scheduled meeting Friday as the chamber conducted a lengthy floor debate on abortion. The committee plans to hold the hearing Monday.
The panel is considering a map that differs from one the Senate approved earlier in the week. The move breaks from the tradition of each chamber redrawing its own districts.
The Senate approved a new map of its 40 districts Wednesday, only to see it defeated Thursday in the House over concerns that it diluted minority votes by collapsing two western Kansas districts.
That map put Republican Sen. Garrett Love of Montezuma in the same district as Democratic Sen. Allen Schmidt of Hays.
