Overview
- The redistricting committee meets at 8 a.m. Monday to recommend a map, followed by a 9 a.m. special session for a legislative vote.
- Five GOP-drafted options labeled A–E are on the table and Democrats Luz Escamilla and Doug Owens submitted an alternative, with public comment open through Oct. 5.
- Two sources say lawmakers are leaning toward Map C, and Democrats criticized the Utah Republican Party for endorsing that option.
- Lawmakers will consider Sen. Brady Brammer's partisan-fairness bill, initially centered on a single partisan symmetry metric, and a Senate leader says a revised draft adding three tests is forthcoming.
- The agenda also includes authority to adjust the Great Salt Lake adaptive management berm, amendments on access and retention of certain election records, potential changes to selecting the state Supreme Court chief justice, and procedural steps tied to ongoing litigation that could trigger a late-October hearing.