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Redistricting Committee votes to recommend Map C to full legislature

October 06, 2025 | 2025 Utah Legislature, Utah Legislature, Utah Legislative Branch, Utah


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Redistricting Committee votes to recommend Map C to full legislature
Chair (Redistricting Committee chair) called the meeting to order and said the committee would recommend a single map for the full legislature to consider in a special session later the same day.

The committee voted to favorably recommend Map C to the full legislature for consideration in the 2025 first special session. Senator Ibsen moved the recommendation and the chair ruled the motion passed after the chair identified Representative Owens and Senator Escamilla as voting no.

The action follows a court order that, the chair said, made the maps developed under Senate Bill 200 no longer appropriate and required the legislature to act within 30 days. The chair told the committee that all maps had been posted online for the 10-day period required by the court order and that staff had reviewed thousands of public comments collected during the process.

The committee discussed constraints that limited its options. The chair said the IRC maps could not be used because those maps were developed under Senate Bill 200 and “are not able to be used or considered in the form that they were moved forward to us.” The chair also said proposed single-line edits raised in public comment could not be adopted because doing so would restart the 10-day public-comment period. The chair cited the federal principle of "one person, one vote" as making some public requests—such as not splitting Salt Lake County—impossible under the legal constraints the committee faced.

Representative Gracious spoke in support of recommending Map C, saying, “I really, really like the distribution on military installations that this map has. And I think think that it's a great map to, maximize our representation there.” Senator Ibsen, who moved the recommendation, summarized that the committee had given “a lot of consideration in all of these maps” and believed Map C “best suits the citizens of Utah to put the rural and the 1 vote per person.”

The chair thanked staff for completing their review under a compressed timeline and emphasized that staff had been asked not to forward any public comments that contained partisan numbers or references to partisanship.

Discussion items that did not become formal direction included several recurring public concerns the chair summarized: differing definitions of "community of interest," requests to adopt IRC maps (which the chair said could not be used), comments about rural-urban splits (which the chair said are not part of Proposition 4), and many pins on public-comment maps, including comments from outside the United States. The chair also noted the committee had previously taken roughly two and a half hours of public comment in its last two meetings.

Formal actions

- Motion: Favorably recommend Map C for consideration in the 2025 first special session. Mover: Senator Ibsen. Second: not specified in the transcript. Outcome: approved (motion passed). Vote details: Representative Owens — no; Senator Escamilla — no; all other individual yes/no votes not specified in the transcript. Note: the chair described the final motion as “non debatable.”

The committee adjourned after the vote. The recommended Map C will be considered by the full legislature in the special session referenced by the committee.

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