Florida House, Senate fail to agree on congressional redistricting plan

The special session is scheduled to end at noon, but Galvano said the Senate is prepared to extend it if necessary.

A Full Sunrise. While the House plan didn’t budge on Hillsborough, House leaders offered up a plan to put all of the city of Sunrise into one Congressional district.

Williams, D-Tallahassee, filed an amendment late Wednesday to a proposed House map that would keep the city and roughly 80 percent of the county wholly in District 5.

The Florida House on Thursday rejected a map passed a day earlier by the Florida Senate and instead voted 60-38 for a new version that shifted voters around in four cities.

The Florida Legislature is still divided over how to follow a court order to redraw congressional districts.

The Senate refused to go along with House efforts to adopt new congressional districts on Friday morning, bringing the two chambers to an apparent stalemate with mere hours left in a special session to draw new districts. “Among those changes were two cities that were made whole”. His district is a majority-minority district, and Oliva said the changes further increase the number of black voters in the district. Galvano, in part, requested creation of a House-Senate conference committee to resolve the differences. “I feel we have a deadline that’s in place and we’re working toward that deadline”, he said. “But it has to meet these constitutional constraints”.