Utah House debates multiple substitute maps for Senate Bill 3002 amid public‑process complaints

Representative Assumption opened floor debate on Senate Bill 3,002, the congressional‑boundaries bill the Senate sent to the House, calling the Senate ‘base map’ “a compromise of many of the issues” gathered during months of committee travel and public hearings. The sponsor said the base map keeps Salt Lake City whole while drawing a new District 4 that runs west from the Wasatch Front into Tooele and parts of Washington and Iron counties.

Members immediately expressed disagreement over the shape and process. Representative Cox said she was not in favor of the Senate version and moved the fourteenth substitute, which she described as a bipartisan map that keeps many counties and cities whole and splits Salt Lake County along the I‑15 corridor. Representative King offered a competing fifteenth substitute, a modification of a citizen‑drawn “Garber” map circulated to legislators the previous Thursday; King described his version as a way to preserve…