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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas proposes constitutional amendment to replace legislative board with 14-member independent redistricting commission
Last action · August 21, 2025: FiledSponsor: Harold Dutton
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What This Bill Proposed
Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the Texas Redistricting Commission to redistrict Texas congressional districts and revising procedures for redistricting.
Removes lawmakers and top state executives from drawing their own political boundaries and replaces them with an independent body of five majority party members, five minority party members, and four independent members, subject to strict conflict-of-interest and eligibility rules.
- In Texas, legislative and congressional redistricting has historically been performed by the Legislature, with backup authority given to the Legislative Redistricting Board. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Texas Voters
Incumbent Officeholders and Candidates
Texas Supreme Court
The court assumes original and exclusive jurisdiction over challenges to certified final maps and duties to compel commission compliance.
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Who serves on the Texas Redistricting Commission?
What happens if the commission cannot agree on a map?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
1 action- Aug 21, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Shift from Legislative Board to Independent Commission
Replaces the existing Legislative Redistricting Board composed of executive and legislative officials with a 14-member independent commission including independent voters.
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Sources
capitol.texas.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 90)
- Controversy85Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz65Current news / social attention level
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