A panel of Texas senators will hold hearings this week on the state’s latest voting district maps. But the procedural move is unlikely to yield any changes to the political boundaries adopted in 2021, said Sen. Carol Alvarado (CarolforTexas), D-Houston.
that: “The Legislature shall, at its first regular session after the publication of each United States decennial census, apportion the state into senatorial and representative districts.”
Texas lawmakers approved new maps in a special session, and those districts were used during the 2022 election cycle.
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