Senate Outlines Plan to Revisit Invalidated Redistricting Map

Members of the Senate Reapportionment Committee will travel to Tallahassee for a single meeting this week to hear what the state Supreme Court found wrong with the Senates plan to redraw their boundary lines.

Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, released a schedule for senators to respond to last Fridays ruling by the states top court.

Gov. Rick Scott has called for a 15-day session. Haridopolos plan features a 1 p.m. meeting on Wednesday, followed by directions for each senator to return to their district office.

The committee is scheduled to meet again on March 20, with the entire Senate expected to consider the revised plan on March 22 and March 23.

The court last week found the House maps in order, but deemed the Senates map for their own lines to be invalid.

The court ruled that eight districts -- 1, 3, 6, 9, 10, 29, 30, and 34 -- failed to meet standards of the voter-approved Fair Districts amendments and that the renumbering plan devised by the Senate could allow some currently sitting members to exceed the state constitutional term-limit requirements.Legislators are limited to no more than eight consecutive years in their current office, with some exceptions to extend that to 10.