After a weekend stalemate, the state House and Senate have given final passage to plans to redesign the 144 legislative districts. The House backed a map for the 39 Senate districts, and the Senate backed the map for the 105 House districts. Both chambers today upheld the longstanding tradition of not meddling in each other’s district reshaping. The maps go next to the governor’s desk. Legislators are unsure if they’ll finish a congressional revamp, however, by Wednesday’s special session deadline. Gov. Bobby Jindal and five of the state’s congressmen are asking for the congressional map to be scrapped for now because of partisan and regional disputes. Lawmakers are redrawing political boundary lines to account for population shifts over the last decade as shown in federal census data.
House, Senate back legislative redistricting plans
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