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House Education committee pauses to fix mismatched district maps; keeps bill language unchanged
Summary
Members of the House Education committee found mismatches between the bill text and several circulated district maps on April 2 and agreed to correct the visual maps rather than change legislative language, pausing for members to review revised maps before voting.
The House Education committee on April 2 paused its work to reconcile discrepancies between the bill’s district listings and the accompanying visual maps, agreeing to update the maps rather than alter the statutory language.
The chair told members the issue was not a drafting error but “a math issue” in which district or group numbers on maps did not match the bill. “We are not going to change the language. We are going to change the map, the visual guide,” the chair said, describing how multiple map files and a PDF conversion had likely introduced numbering…
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