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Committee passes bill delaying county redistricting to 2031 and requiring public hearings

House committee · January 21, 2026
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Summary

A House committee approved an amendment to House Bill 1342 that moves local county redistricting until after the 2030 cycle, requires executives to publish proposed county commission district boundaries and hold public hearings, and passed the bill as amended by a 9–1 roll call vote.

A House committee on Monday adopted an amendment to House Bill 1342 that delays local county redistricting until after the 2030 cycle and requires county executives to publish proposed county commission district boundaries and hold a public hearing before adopting ordinances to create or revise districts.

Counsel David Dickmeyer told the committee the amendment "pushes the process out ... to the end of, 2030" and recreates the statute so the new language will be effective in January 2031. The amendment retains long-standing rules — districts must be contiguous, reasonably compact and generally not cross precinct lines — while adding a…

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