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Utah Senate advances redistricting plan after rejecting amendments
Summary
After hours of debate in a second special session called by Gov. Norman H. Bangerter, the Utah Senate rejected two major amendments to its committee plan and voted 17–11 to advance Senate Bill 1 (senate districts) to third reading.
The Utah State Senate on the second special session called by Gov. Norman H. Bangerter advanced its committee redistricting plan on Oct. 1991, voting 17–11 to place Senate Bill 1 (senate districts) on the third-reading calendar after rejecting two amendment proposals.
Senator Dixie Levitt moved to substitute the committee plan with “Senate C,” a county-aligned map she said would keep rural counties together and reduce sprawling, hard-to-represent districts. Levitt argued the committee map would join distant counties — for example placing parts of Washington County with Carbon County — producing districts that are difficult for a single senator to serve and travel across. She said her alternative would create county groupings with populations around 60,250 and about 260,000…
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