Leaders of the General Assembly are considering convening in special session during the first full week of December to tackle congressional redistricting, Maryland Matters has learned.
Members of the House and Senate Democratic caucuses have been told to block off the week of Dec. 6 for the once-a-decade process of drawing new congressional lines.
Sources caution that critical factors outside the legislature’s control could cause the calendar to shift. But the current expectation is that legislators will have received enough population data from the United States Census Bureau to be able to gather in early December.
The Census is expected to provide raw data on Aug. 16 and more “usable” numbers — as one source put it — on Sept. 30.
Click here to read the rest of the article written by Bruce DePuyt via Maryland Matters over at WTOP
