Ferguson Announces Redistricting Appointments; Sign-up Period for Special Session Testimony Opens Thursday

Senate Majority Leader Nancy J. King (D-Montgomery) will chair the decennial Senate Standing Committee on Reapportionment and Redistricting, Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) announced Wednesday.

Sen. Nancy J. King (D-Montgomery). Photo by Danielle E. Gaines.

Sen. Antonio L. Hayes (D-Baltimore City) will serve as the redistricting committee’s vice chair. The Committee on Reapportionment and Redistricting convenes once every 10 years to consider congressional and state legislative redistricting, according to a Wednesday news release.

In the House of Delegates, the Rules and Executive Nominations Committee is set to handle redistricting. Lawmakers are set to tackle congressional redistricting in a special session next Monday, and will handle legislative redistricting in their regular session beginning next January.

The Senate committee and the House Rules panel are expected to hold a joint hearing Monday afternoon on the legislature’s congressional redistricting plan and the plan submitted by the Maryland Citizens Redistricting Commission, which is aligned with Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R).

Witnesses interested in providing testimony must sign up on the General Assembly’s website between 9 a.m. Thursday and 6 p.m. Friday.

In addition to King and Hayes, other senators on the newly-formed committee are:

• Sen. Adelaide C. Eckardt (R-Middle Shore)
• Senate President Pro Tem Melony G. Griffith (D-Prince George’s), who is also a member of the Legislative Redistricting Advisory Commission
• Sen. Guy J. Guzzone (D-Howard), the chair of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
• Sen. Delores G. Kelley (D-Baltimore County), the chair of the Finance Committee
• Sen. Susan C. Lee (D-Montgomery), the majority whip
• Sen. Paul G. Pinsky (D-Prince George’s), the chair of the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee
• Sen. Edward R. Reilly (R-Anne Arundel), the deputy minority leader
• Senate Minority Leader Bryan W. Simonaire (R-Anne Arundel), another member of the Legislative Redistricting Advisory Commission
• Sen. William C. Smith Jr. (D-Montgomery), chair of the Judicial Proceedings Committee
• Sen. Mary Washington (D-Baltimore City), the Senate chair of the Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families
• Sen. Christopher R. West (R-Baltimore County)
• Sen. Ronald N. Young (D-Frederick), the chair of the Executive Nominations Committee
• Sen. Craig J. Zucker (D-Montgomery)

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