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Senator Davis presents SB 7 25 map; committee pauses while members seek consensus on Pulaski and Sebastian county lines
Summary
Senator Brianne Davis presented Senate Bill 7 25, a congressional map that keeps Little Rock and North Little Rock whole and moves roughly 5,000 Pulaski County residents into the Fourth District; members debated tradeoffs for keeping Sebastian County whole (about 10,000 people) and sent staff back to draft a revised map with BLR.
Senator Brianne Davis (District 16) presented Senate Bill 7 25 to the Senate State Agencies & Governmental Affairs Committee, describing a congressional map that reduces county splits from five to three and ‘‘keeps Little Rock whole, it keeps North Little Rock whole’’ while following natural boundaries such as the river and highways 67 and 167. Davis said she was not asking for a vote and asked the committee to consider the proposal while she continues to work with the House cosponsor, Representative Dodson.
The proposal, Davis said, moves about 5,000 people from Pulaski County into the Fourth Congressional District and seeks to keep smaller counties that had been split for years…
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