Take a Look at the Proposed Congressional Maps for Louisiana

A big meeting is set for Friday in Baton Rouge as a Senate Committee begins the process of drawing new Congressional maps for the state of Louisiana. KEEL News has put together pics of all of the maps lawmakers will be debating out as this process gets started.

The Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee will hash out all the proposed map. This work comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Louisiana v. Callais that the state's 2024 congressional map, which included two majority-Black districts, was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

The conservative majority found that using race as a predominant factor, even to comply with the Voting Rights Act, violated the 14th Amendment.

Current Congressional Map

But that map is no longer legal. So members of the House and Senate have bills filed to draw new maps.

Take a look at the different proposals.

HB 642 by Rep Mike Johnson

SB 116 by Senator Jay Morris

SB 117 by Senator Caleb Kleinpeter

SB 121 by Senator Jay Morris

SB 130 by Senator Jay Morris

SB 407 by Senator Ed Price

Caleb Kleinpeter (R) is Chairman of the committee.

Here are the other members of the committee:

Blake Miguez (R)

Regina Barrow (D)

Gary Carter (D)

Michael "Big Mike" Fesi (R)

Sam Jenkins (D)

Gregory Miller (R)

Mike Reese (R)

Glen Womack (R)

Senator Jenkins says the hearing on Friday will also be a public hearing and folks can make comments about the proposed maps. He the best way to do that is to email your comments to s&g@legis.la.gov.